The Negative Impact of Corruption on the Enjoyment of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/59/6View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A document 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 2025.

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7 versions · 2013–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/59/6	The negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights	2,144	79%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/53/17	The negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights	2,053	72%Compare
2021	A/HRC/RES/47/7	The negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights	1,922	74%Compare
2019	A/HRC/RES/41/9	The negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights	1,688	49%Compare
2017	A/HRC/RES/35/25	The negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights	1,771	37%Compare

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Corruption Crime Prevention Guidelines Human Rights International Obligations Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

Urges States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the United Nations Convention against Corruption to consider doing so, calls upon States Parties to the Convention to effectively implement it and to participate in the Mechanism for the Review of Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and encourages States Parties to publish their country reports prepared under the Mechanism;

Recognizes the negative impact of widespread corruption on the enjoyment of human rights, including by reducing the resources available for all sectors, thereby hampering the realization of all human rights;

Welcomes the commitments made by all States in Sustainable Development Goal 16 and its target 16.5 on substantially reducing corruption and bribery in all their forms;

Recalls the political declaration entitled “Our common commitment to effectively addressing challenges and implementing measures to prevent and combat corruption and strengthen international cooperation”, adopted by the General Assembly on 2 June 2021 at its special session on challenges and measures to prevent and combat corruption and strengthen international cooperation;³

³General Assembly resolution S-32/1, annex.

Underlines the necessity to step up cooperation and coordination among different stakeholders, including the private sector, civil society and academia at the national, regional and international levels, to prevent and fight corruption in all its forms and across all sectors as a means of contributing positively to the promotion and protection of human rights;

Stresses that preventive measures are one of the most effective means of countering corruption and of avoiding its negative impact on the enjoyment of human rights, calls for the strengthening of preventive measures at all levels and institutions, and underlines that one key aspect of preventive measures is to address the needs of those in vulnerable situations who may be the first victims of corruption, with disproportionate implications for their lives and livelihoods;

Urges States to create and maintain, in law and in practice, while addressing the negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights, a safe and enabling environment in which civil society, media workers, media outlets, journalists and academia can operate free from hindrance and insecurity and enjoy their freedom to seek, receive and impart information;

Recognizes that the negative impact of corruption on human rights and sustainable development can be addressed through anti-corruption education, notes with appreciation the capacity-building activities and specialized curricula developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and relevant institutions, such as the International Anti-Corruption Academy, and encourages the latter, as well as other international and regional anti-corruption organizations, to strengthen their cooperation with the Office and other relevant United Nations entities to enhance the effectiveness of anti-corruption education, including by addressing, in cooperation with the Office, the negative impact of corruption on human rights in their education and training modules, facilitating anti-corruption research, implementing teaching and learning programmes and increasing public awareness of the causes, practices and risks associated with corruption;

Calls upon States and international organizations to promote, facilitate and support timely, sustainable, adequate and effective technical assistance to strengthen national capacities to prevent and fight corruption, upon request, and recognizes that multilateral and bilateral technical assistance is more effective when aligned with national anti-corruption strategies;

Encourages national anti-corruption authorities and national human rights institutions, where they exist, to cooperate through the exchange of information, where appropriate, and the development of joint strategies and plans of action to prevent and fight corruption and its negative impact on the enjoyment of human rights;

Invites the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as the secretariat of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention, to continue to exchange views, explore opportunities for closer cooperation and keep each other abreast of ongoing activities to deepen the understanding of the nexus between corruption and human rights, as appropriate and within their respective mandates, under the aegis of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;

Encourages the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council to consider and address, within their existing mandates, the issue of the negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights;

Stresses the importance of policy coherence among the intergovernmental processes in Geneva, Vienna and New York on the issue of corruption and its impact on the enjoyment of human rights, and recalls that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime remains the leading body with respect to the coordination of Convention against Corruption issues within the United Nations system;

Requests the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council to prepare a comprehensive study in which it develops concrete guidelines on implementing existing procedural and substantive human rights obligations of States in the context of preventing and combating corruption, and to present the study to the Council at its sixty-fourth session;

Requests that the above-mentioned study be developed in close cooperation and coordination with the Office of the High Commissioner with a view to building on its existing work, supporting technical assistance and capacity-building efforts and providing a strong foundation for policy development, information-sharing and awareness-raising at the national, regional and international levels;

Requests the Advisory Committee to seek input from States, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and a broad, diverse range of stakeholders, including relevant international organizations and intergovernmental bodies, human rights mechanisms, local authorities, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, the private sector and academic institutions;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to share the study with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;

Decides to remain seized of this issue.

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