Regional Arrangements for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/RES/51/102View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

24 versions · 1978–2020

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/43/17

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?

9 subjects

Advisory Services Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Human Rights Advancement Institution Building Inter-Agency Cooperation Medium-Term Plan Technical Cooperation Training Programmes

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;4

Welcomes the continuing cooperation and assistance of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat in the further strengthening of the existing regional arrangements and regional machinery for the promotion and protection of human rights, in particular with regard to advisory services and technical assistance, public information and education, with a view to exchanging information and experience in the field of human rights;

Welcomes also, in that respect, the close cooperation of the High Commissioner/Centre for Human Rights in the organization of regional and subregional training courses and workshops in the field of human rights, high-level government expert meetings and a regional conference of national human rights institutions, aiming at creating greater understanding of the promotion and protection of human rights issues in the regions, improving procedures and examining the various systems for the promotion and protection of universally accepted human rights standards and at identifying obstacles to ratification of the principal international human rights treaties and strategies to overcome them;

Stresses the importance of the programme of advisory services in the field of human rights, renews its appeal to all Governments to consider making use of the possibilities offered by the United Nations, under this programme, of organizing information or training courses at the national level for government personnel on the application of international human rights standards and the experience of relevant international bodies, and notes with satisfaction, in that respect, the establishment of technical cooperation projects with several Governments of the region of Asia and the Pacific;

Requests the Secretary-General, as foreseen in programme 35 (Promotion and protection of human rights) of the medium-term plan for the period 1992-1997,⁶to continue to strengthen exchanges between the United Nations and regional intergovernmental organizations dealing with human rights;

⁶See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 6 (A/45/6/Rev.1), vol. II.

Welcomes the growing exchanges between the High Commissioner/Centre for Human Rights and several regional intergovernmental organizations, as well as between the bodies created by the United Nations in accordance with the treaties dealing with human rights and the Council of Europe;

Invites States in areas where regional arrangements in the field of human rights do not yet exist to consider concluding agreements with a view to the establishment within their respective regions of suitable regional machinery for the promotion and protection of human rights;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights to continue to pay special attention to the most appropriate ways of assisting, at their request, countries of the different regions under the programme of advisory services and to make, where necessary, relevant recommendations;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session a report on the state of regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights and to include therein the results of action taken in pursuance of the present resolution;

Decides to consider this question further at its fifty-third session.

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