A/RES/74/163
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 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)]
74/163.
United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation
Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region
The General Assembly,
Guided by the fundamental and universal principles enshrined in the Charter of
the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993, 2 which
reiterated the need to consider the possibility of establishing regional and subregional
arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights where they do not
already exist,
Recalling also its resolutions 32/127 of 16 December 1977 and 51/102 of
12 December 1996 and all its subsequent resolutions concerning regional arrangements
for the promotion and protection of human rights,
Recalling further its resolutions 60/153 of 16 December 2005, 67/162 of
20 December 2012, 68/241 of 27 December 2013, 69/171 of 18 December 2014,
70/171 of 17 December 2015 and 72/166 of 19 December 2017 on the United Nations
Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab
Region,
Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/51 of 9 March 1993 3
and all its subsequent resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion
and protection of human rights,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda
(E/1993/23, E/1993/23/Corr.2, E/1993/23/Corr.4 and E/1993/23/Corr.5), chap. II, sect. A.
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