The Role of the Ombudsman, Mediator and Other National Human Rights Institutions in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/RES/71/200View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 68b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2009–2018

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/72/186

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2018	A/RES/72/186	The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights	1,187	19%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/200	The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights	410	19%Compare
2015	A/RES/69/168	The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights	1,088	81%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/163	The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights	903	85%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/207	The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights	863	44%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2010–2020

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2020	A/75/224	The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/186
2017	A/72/230	The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/200
2012	A/67/288	Role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/65/207
2010	A/65/340	The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/169

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Human Rights Institutions Mediation Ombudsman Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General,² in which he refers the General Assembly to his report on national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights submitted to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-third session, in September 2016;³

²A/71/273.

³A/HRC/33/33.

Recalls paragraph 1 of resolution 69/168, in which it regretted that no specific report on the implementation of resolution 67/163 had been prepared;

Regrets that, once again, the Secretariat did not provide a specific report on the implementation of General Assembly resolutions on the role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights, despite the request in resolution 69/168, and that the notes by the Secretary-General⁴ referring to the reports submitted to the Human Rights Council did not fully correspond to the specific requests by the Assembly in resolutions 69/168 and 67/163;

⁴A/69/287 and A/71/273.

Notes, in this regard, the functional and structural differences between national human rights institutions, on the one hand, and the Ombudsman and mediator institutions, on the other, and underlines in this regard that reports on the implementation of General Assembly resolutions on the role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions should be stand-alone reports;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session the report requested in resolution 69/168;

Recalls its request in resolution 69/168 that the Secretary-General report in particular on the obstacles encountered by States in implementing the resolution, as well as on best practices in the work and functioning of ombudsman, mediator and other human rights institutions, and requests him to seek the views of States and other relevant stakeholders, in particular ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions, as well as civil society, in this regard, and to formulate recommendations in his report on how to establish or strengthen such institutions.

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