A/RES/78/171
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 24
Social development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/472, para. 57)]
78/171.
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, 3 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, 4 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 5 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 6 and
the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7
Reaffirming also the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the
Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development 8 and the further
initiatives for social development adopted by the General Assembly at its t wenty-fourth
special session, 9 and the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, 10
Recalling its resolution 76/130 of 16 December 2021 and its previous
resolutions on persons with albinism,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
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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