A/RES/74/161
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (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 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.2)]
74/161.
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,
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 all its other resolutions on the matter, including resolution s
70/160 of 17 December 2015 and 72/183 of 19 December 2017, as well as relevant
resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Council, including resolution 36/6 of
28 September 2017, 1
Recalling further its resolution 68/165 of 18 December 2013 on the right to the
truth, as well as Human Rights Council resolution 36/7 of 28 September 2017 on the
Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of
non-recurrence, 1
Recalling its resolution 73/162 of 17 December 2018 on the human rights treaty
body system,
Recalling also that no one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance,
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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