National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights

UN Commission on Human Rights, National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, E/CN.4/RES/24(XXXV), 14 March 1979, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unchr/1979/en/6694 [accessed 07 February 2025]
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24 (XXXV National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights[1]52

The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling its resolution 23 (XXXIV) of 8 March 1978, in which it requested the Seminar on National and Local Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to suggest guidelines for the structure and functioning of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, Recalling General Assembly resolution 33/46 of 14 December 1978 which noted with appreciation the Report of the Seminar[2]53 , and requested the Commission on Human Rights to consider the guidelines on the structure and functioning of national institutions suggested by the Seminar and to send its recommendations in this regard to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session,

1. Endorses the guidelines on the structure and functioning of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights contained in the Report of the Seminar[3]54 ;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit these guidelines to all Member States as well as to concerned specialized agencies and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, and to invite Governments to inform the Commission, through the Secretary-General, of the extent to which such national institutions already exist or are planned in the future;

3. Invites all Member States where such national institutions do not yet exist to take appropriate steps for the establishment of such national institutions bearing in mind the guidelines referred to above.

4. Recommends to all Member States to request from their respective national institutions, as appropriate, reports at regular intervals for presentation to competent bodies at the national level and to consider arrangements for the discussion of such reports;

5. Invites Member States to transmit relevant information regarding the activities of their national institutions including, wherever possible, a summary of the reports mentioned in paragraph 4 to the Commission through the Secretary-General, once every three years, beginning in the first half-year of 1981;

6. Requests the Secretary-General to compile the information received in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 5, and to submit this information, together with a summary of the above reports, to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session and to the Commission every three years;

7. Decides to consider the question of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights every three years, as a sub-item on its agenda;

8. Recommends to the General Assembly, through the Economic and Social Council, to decide:

(a) to put on the agenda for its thirty-sixth session the sub-item "National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights";

(b) to recommend to Member States that they associate representatives of their national institutions with the contents of the debate on the above sub-item.


[1]52 Adopted at the 1522nd meeting, on 14 March 1979, without a vote. See chap. IX. [2]53 ST/HR/SER.A/2. [3]54 See foot-note 89 above.
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