Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights.

  • Author: UN General Assembly (32nd sess. : 1977)
  • Document source:
    UN General Assembly
  • Date:
    16 December 1977
UN General Assembly (32nd sess. : 1977), Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights., A/RES/32/127, UN General Assembly, 16 December 1977, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1977/en/6424 [accessed 13 January 2025]
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32. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
127. Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights

The General Assembly, Mindful of the suggestions made for the establishment, in regions where it does not already exist, of regional machinery for the promotion and protection of human rights,[1] Aware of the importance of encouraging regional co-operation for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 7 (XXIV) of 1 March 1968,[2] in which the Commission requested the Secretary-General to consider the possibility of arranging suitable regional seminars under the programme of advisory services in the field of human rights in those regions where no regional commission on human rights exists at present for the purpose of discussing the usefulness and advisability of the establishment of regional commissions on human rights, Recognizing the important contribution of the regional commissions of the United Nations in the economic and social fields,

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

2. Requests the Secretary-General, under the programme of advisory services in the field of human rights, to give priority to the organization, in regions where no regional commission on human rights exists, of seminars for the purpose of discussing the usefulness and advisability of the establishment of regional commissions for the promotion and protection of human rights;

3. Further requests the Secretary-General to submit a progress report on the implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session for further consideration.

105th plenary meeting
16 December 1977
[1] A/10235, paras. 93-97 and 173-178, A/32/178, paras. 107-111. [2] See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, forty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 4 (E/4475), chap. XVIII.
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