A/RES/56/173. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2001

• Resolution Number: A/RES/56/173
• Year: 2001
• Session: 56th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/56/173

General Assembly Distr.: General

27 February 2002

Fifty-sixth session

Agenda item 119 (c)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/583/Add.3)]

56/173. Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of

the Congo

The General Assembly

,

Reaffirming

that all Member States are required to promote and protect human

rights and fundamental freedoms as stated in the Charter of the United Nations, the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

1

the International Covenants on Human

Rights

2

and other applicable human rights instruments,

Awar e

that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a party to the

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

2

the International Covenant on

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

2

the Convention against Torture and Other

Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,

3

the Convention on the

Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,

4

the International

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,

5

the

Convention on the Rights of the Child,

6

the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949

for the protection of victims of war

7

and the first Additional Protocol thereto, of

1977,

8

as well as the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights,

9

Recalling

its previous resolutions on the subject, the most recent of which is

resolution 55/117 of 4 December 2000, and those of the Commission on Human

Rights, as well as Security Council resolutions 1304 (2000) of 16 June 2000,

1332 (2000) of 14 December 2000, 1341 (2001) of 22 February 2001, 1355 (2001)

of 15 June 2001 and 1376 (2001) of 9 November 2001,

Recalling also

the Ceasefire Agreement signed at Lusaka,

10

as well as the

Kampala disengagement plan

11

and the Harare sub-plans for disengagement and

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1 Resolution 217 A (III).

2 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

3 Resolution 39/46, annex.

4 Resolution 34/180, annex.

5 Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.

6 Resolution 44/25, annex.

7 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.

8 Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.

9 Ibid., vol. 1520, No. 26363.

10 S/1999/815, annex.

11 See S/2000/330 and Corr.1, paras. 21–28.