Regional Arrangements for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/43/17View 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 2020.

What other versions does this mandate have?

24 versions · 1978–2020

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2020	A/HRC/RES/43/17	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	626	80%Compare
2017	A/HRC/RES/34/17	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	653	56%Compare
2015	A/HRC/RES/30/3	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	826	66%Compare
2013	A/HRC/RES/24/19	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	637	58%Compare
2011	A/HRC/RES/18/14	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	450	63%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

5 reports · 1978–2010

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2010	A/65/369	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/170
2006	A/61/513	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/59/196
2004	A/59/323	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/57/210
2002	A/57/283	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/55/105
1978	A/33/219	Regional arrangements for the promot ion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/32/127

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Business Enterprises Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Human Rights Advancement Regional Cooperation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the progress made by Governments in the establishment of regional and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, and their achievements in all regions of the world;

Also welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights,² held on 21 and 22 October 2019 in Geneva, including its conclusions and recommendations;

²A/HRC/43/32.

Further welcomes the holding of the meetings of focal points for cooperation between United Nations and regional human rights mechanisms, and takes note with appreciation of their outcomes;

Notes with appreciation the progress made towards the implementation of its resolution 34/17, as described in the report of the High Commissioner, and encourages regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights and other organizations to continue to enhance their cooperation;

Also notes with appreciation the critical role played by the Office of the High Commissioner in advancing cooperation between international and regional human rights mechanisms;

Welcomes the successful creation by the Office of the High Commissioner of a dedicated programme for regional human rights mechanisms to gain experience in the United Nations human rights system in order to enhance capacity-building and cooperation among them;

Requests the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to provide the resources necessary to enable the Office of the High Commissioner to support the above-mentioned activities appropriately, in particular the annual meetings of the regional mechanisms’ focal points for cooperation and the dedicated programme;

Requests the High Commissioner to hold, in 2022, a workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights to take stock of developments since the workshop held in 2019, including a thematic discussion on the role of regional arrangements in the field of business and human rights, based on concrete and practical experience of regional mechanisms, in order to share information on best practices, lessons learned and possible new forms of cooperation, with the participation of relevant experts from international, regional, subregional and interregional human rights mechanisms, as well as Members States, observers, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations;

Also requests the High Commissioner to present to the Human Rights Council, at its fifty-second session, a report containing a summary of the discussions held at the above-mentioned workshop and the progress made towards the implementation of the present resolution.

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