A/RES/78/207
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 71 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/481/Add.2, para. 139)]
78/207.
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearance
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 61/177 of 20 December 2006, by which it adopted
and opened for signature, ratification and accession the International Convention for
the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 1
Recalling its resolution 47/133 of 18 December 1992, by which it adopted the
Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as a body
of principles for all States,
Recalling also the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Protection of All
Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and taking note of the related report of the
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, which highlights the
contribution of the Declaration to the progress of international law on enforced
disappearance, 2
Recalling further all its other resolutions on the matter, including resolutions
70/160 of 17 December 2015, 72/183 of 19 December 2017, 74/161 of 18 December
2019 and 76/158 of 16 December 2021, as well as relevant resolutions adopted by the
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2716, No. 48088.
A/HRC/51/31/Add.3.
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