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, __________________ 1 2 3 19-22291 (E) 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. 200120 *1922291*

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