A/RES/74/123
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 25
Social development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/391)]
74/123.
Persons with albinism
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 and recalling relevant
international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, 2 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, 3 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 4 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 5 and
the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6
Reaffirming also the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the
Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development 7 and the further
initiatives for social development adopted by the General Assembly at its twentyfourth special session, 8 and the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled
Persons, 9
Recalling its resolution 72/140 of 19 December 2017 and its previous
resolutions on persons with albinism,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
A/37/351/Add.1 and A/37/351/Add.1/Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation 1 (IV).
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