National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/RES/63/172View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 64b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

20 versions · 1979–2018

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/72/181

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2018	A/RES/72/181	National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights	2,976	25%Compare
2016	A/HRC/RES/33/15	National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights	2,265	17%Compare
2016	A/RES/70/163	National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights	2,291	23%Compare
2014	A/HRC/RES/27/18	National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights	1,927	22%Compare
2014	A/RES/68/171	National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights	2,111	32%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

17 reports · 2003–2019

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2019	A/74/226	National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/181
2018	A/HRC/39/20	National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/33/15
2018	A/HRC/39/21	Activities of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions in accrediting national institutions in compliance with the Principles relating to the Status of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (the Paris Principles) report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/33/15
2017	A/72/277	National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/163
2016	A/HRC/33/34	Activities of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions in accrediting national institutions in compliance with the Principles relating to the Status of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (Paris Principles) report of the Secretary-General	A/HRC/RES/27/18

What subjects does this mandate have?

17 subjects

Communications Procedures Conferences Coordination Within UN System Declarations Financial Institutions Human Rights Advancement Human Rights Institutions Information Dissemination Institution Building Non-Governmental Organizations Principles Programmes of Action Resources Allocation Rule of Law Special Procedures Treaty-Monitoring Bodies Websites

What’s in this document?

25 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General;⁸

⁸A/63/486.

Reaffirms the importance of the development of effective, independent and pluralistic national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (“the Paris Principles”);1

Recognizes the role of independent national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights in working together with Governments to ensure full respect for human rights at the national level, including by contributing to follow-up actions, as appropriate, to the recommendations resulting from the international human rights mechanisms;

Welcomes the increasingly important role of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights in supporting cooperation between their Governments and the United Nations for the promotion and protection of human rights;

Recognizes that, in accordance with the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,2 it is the right of each State to choose the framework for national institutions that is best suited to its particular needs at the national level in order to promote human rights in accordance with international human rights standards;

Also recognizes that national institutions have a crucial role to play in promoting and ensuring the indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights, and calls upon States to ensure that all human rights are appropriately reflected in the mandate of their national human rights institutions when established;

Encourages Member States to establish effective, independent and pluralistic national institutions or, where they already exist, to strengthen them for the promotion and protection of human rights, as outlined in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;

Welcomes the growing number of States establishing or considering the establishment of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights;

Encourages national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights established by Member States to continue to play an active role in preventing and combating all violations of human rights as enumerated in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and relevant international instruments;

Recognizes the role played by national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Human Rights Council, including its universal periodic review mechanism and the special procedures, as well as in the human rights treaty bodies, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007⁹ and Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/74 of 20 April 2005;¹⁰

⁹See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/62/53), chap. IV, sect. A.

¹⁰See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda (E/2005/23 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. II, sect. A.

Notes with satisfaction the efforts of those States that have provided their national institutions with more autonomy and independence, including by giving them an investigative role or enhancing such a role, and encourages other Governments to consider taking similar steps;

Acknowledges the role of national institutions in the strengthening of the rule of law and the promotion and protection of human rights in all sectors, and encourages cooperation, where appropriate, with the United Nations system, international financial institutions, and non-governmental organizations;

Urges the Secretary-General to continue to give high priority to requests from Member States for assistance in the establishment and strengthening of national human rights institutions;

Commends the high priority given by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to work on national institutions, encourages the High Commissioner, in view of the expanded activities relating to national institutions, to ensure that appropriate arrangements are made and budgetary resources provided to continue and further extend activities in support of national human rights institutions, and invites Governments to contribute additional voluntary funds to that end;

Welcomes the national institutions website¹¹ as an important vehicle for the delivery of information to national institutions and also the launch of a database of comparative analysis of procedures and methods of complaint-handling by national human rights institutions;

¹¹www.nhri.net.

Notes with appreciation the increasingly active and important role of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, in close cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, in assisting Governments and national institutions, when requested, to follow up on relevant resolutions and recommendations concerning the strengthening of national institutions;

Also notes with appreciation the holding of regular meetings of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions and the arrangements for the participation of national human rights institutions in the sessions of the Human Rights Council;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the necessary assistance for holding meetings of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions during the sessions of the Human Rights Council, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner;

Encourages national institutions to seek accreditation status through the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions, and notes with satisfaction the strengthening of the accreditation procedure and the continued assistance of the Office of the High Commissioner in this regard, as well as the assistance of the Office to the conferences of the International Coordinating Committee;

Welcomes the continuation of the practice of national institutions convening regional meetings in some regions, and its initiation in others, and encourages national institutions, in cooperation with the High Commissioner, to organize similar events with Governments and non-governmental organizations in their own regions;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the necessary assistance for holding international and regional meetings of national institutions;

Recognizes the important and constructive role that the judiciary, parliament and civil society can play, in cooperation with national institutions, for better promotion and protection of human rights;

Encourages all Member States to take appropriate steps to promote the exchange of information and experience concerning the establishment and effective operation of national institutions;

Encourages all United Nations human rights mechanisms as well as agencies, funds and programmes to work within their respective mandates with Member States and national institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights with respect to, inter alia, projects in the area of good governance and rule of law, and in this regard welcomes the efforts made by the Office of the High Commissioner to develop partnerships in support of national institutions;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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