United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation
Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region
A/RES/74/163
Reaffirming that regional cooperation plays a fundamental role in promoting and
protecting human rights and should reinforce universal human rights, as contained in
international human rights instruments, and their protection,
Recognizing that the Centre has made noticeable progress in the promotion of
human rights and advocacy in the region and will continue to strengthen its
effectiveness and efficiency in responding to ongoing and emerging needs and will
enhance its capacity-building and technical assistance, in particular in countries in
conflict and post-conflict countries,
Mindful of the vastness and the diversity of the needs in the field of human rights
within South-West Asia and the Arab region, and taking into account the need fo r
appropriate and sustainable funding of the Centre to fully realize its significant
function and crucial role in the region,
1.
Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General; 4
2.
Notes with appreciation the successful assistance that the United Nations
Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab
Region has provided through human rights capacity-building activities, technical
assistance programmes and training programmes on human rights and media and
human rights education, as well as support to national human rights institutions on
several human rights topics, and notes that the Centre also provided capacity-building
activities in the areas of civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and
cultural rights, such as on freedoms of opinion and expression, countering hate speech
and incitement to discrimination, and preventing violent extremism;
3.
Also notes with appreciation the Centre’s full commitment to ensuring
greater effectiveness and efficiency in the implementation of its mandate;
4.
Welcomes the expansion of the Centre’s outreach to the League of Arab
States and additional countries in the region, as well as to a growing number of
beneficiaries, including youth;
5.
Also welcomes the Centre’s efforts to reinforce its documentation mandate
and its production of several publications on human rights issues in Arabic ;
6.
Underlines the Centre’s role as a source for regional expertise and the need
to meet an increasing number of requests for training and documentation, including
in Arabic;
7.
Notes that the increasing demand that has been placed on the Centre by
Member States and other stakeholders reveals a growing recognition of its role and
impact on strengthening human rights capacities in the region;
8.
Encourages the continued engagement of the Centre to work with other
United Nations regional offices to strengthen its work and to avoid duplication;
9.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-sixth session a report, in accordance with existing rules and procedures, on
the implementation of the present resolution.
50th plenary meeting
18 December 2019
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