The Role of Good Governance in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/31/14View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 2008–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/63/12

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/63/12	The role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights	2,633	—Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/5	The role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights	2,826	67%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/5	The role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights	2,134	44%Compare
2020	A/HRC/RES/45/9	The role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights	2,185	56%Compare
2018	A/HRC/RES/37/6	The role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights	1,579	68%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Governance Human Rights Human Rights Advancement Public Administration Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the holding by the Human Rights Council, at its thirtieth session, of a panel discussion on a human rights-based approach to good governance in the public service;

Also welcomes the summary report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the panel discussion ;³

³A/HRC/31/28.

Further welcomes the growing trend towards the universal ratification of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and encourages States that have not yet ratified this important international instrument to consider doing so;

Welcomes the commitments made by all States in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with regard to good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights, including in Sustainable Development Goal 16;

Underlines that the primary responsibility lies with States at the national level, including through their constitutional provisions and other enabling legislation, consistent with their international obligations, to ensure that professional public services uphold the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity, and are predicated on good governance principles, including impartiality, rule of law, transparency, accountability and combating corruption, and stresses the importance of human rights training and education in this regard;

Invites the Secretary-General to ensure the upholding of the integrity of the United Nations system in its service of humanity, and improved coordination between United Nations agencies, programmes and funds, with a view to ensuring that the United Nations system continues to improve the quality of its work at all levels, including in support of objectives and priorities at the national level;

Encourages the relevant mechanisms of the Human Rights Council to continue to consider, within their respective mandates, the issue of the role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights;

Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a compilation of the activities and programmes of the United Nations system that contribute to the role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights, including its efforts to support States in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in this context, and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fourth session;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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