Regional Arrangements for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/RES/53/148View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 110b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 1999.

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?

7 subjects

Conferences Human Rights Advancement Human Rights Institutions Information Dissemination Regional Cooperation Technical Cooperation Training Programmes

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Secretary-General;⁵

⁵A/53/324.

Welcomes the continuing cooperation and assistance of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the further strengthening of the existing regional arrangements and regional machinery for the promotion and protection of human rights, in particular through technical cooperation which is aimed at national capacity-building, public information and education, with a view to exchanging information and experience in the field of human rights;

Also welcomes, in that respect, the close cooperation of the Office of the High Commissioner in the organization of regional and subregional training courses and workshops in the field of human rights, high-level government expert meetings and regional conferences of national human rights institutions, aimed 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 technical cooperation 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 Governments of all regions;

Invites all Governments to continue to support the activities of the Office of the High Commissioner in the field of technical cooperation, with a view to further strengthening regional cooperation and regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights;

Reiterates the recommendation of the World Conference on Human Rights that human rights officers be assigned if and when necessary to regional offices of the United Nations for the purpose of disseminating information and offering training and other technical assistance in the field of human rights upon the request of the Member States concerned, and in this regard calls upon the Office of the High Commissioner also to disseminate information regarding regional arrangements which exist in different parts of the world;

Requests the Secretary-General, as foreseen in programme 19 (Human rights) of the medium-term plan for the period 1998–2001, to continue to strengthen exchanges between the United Nations and regional intergovernmental organizations dealing with human rights;

Welcomes the growing exchanges between the Office of the High Commissioner and regional intergovernmental organizations, as well as the growing exchanges between the bodies created by the United Nations in accordance with the treaties dealing with human rights and relevant regional organizations and bodies such as the Council of Europe and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights;

Also welcomes the recent adoption by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights⁶ on the establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights;

⁶United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1520, No. 26363.

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, and recognizes in this context that the annual intergovernmental workshop for the Asia-Pacific region, as stated during the sixth Workshop on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia and Pacific Region, held at Tehran from 28 February to 2 March 1998,⁷ is an important forum for the discussion of initiatives for regional cooperation;

⁷See E/CN.4/1998/50.

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 technical cooperation and to make, where necessary, relevant recommendations;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth 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-fifth session.

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