A/RES/60/154. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2005

• Resolution Number: A/RES/60/154
• Year: 2005
• Session: 60th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/60/154

General Assembly Distr.: General

23 February 2006

Sixtieth session

Agenda item 71 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.2 (Part II))]

60/154. National institutions for the promotion and protection

of human rights

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions and those of the Commission on Human Rights

concerning national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights,

Welcoming

the rapidly growing interest throughout the world in the creation

and strengthening of independent, pluralistic national institutions for the promotion

and protection of human rights,

Convinced

of the important role that such national institutions play and will

continue to play in promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental

freedoms and in developing and enhancing public awareness of those rights and

freedoms,

Recognizing

that the United Nations has played an important role and should

continue to play a more important role in assisting the development of national

institutions,

Recalling

the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the

World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June l993,

1

which reaffirmed the important

and constructive role played by national human rights institutions, in particular in

their advisory capacity to the competent authorities and their role in remedying

human rights violations, in disseminating information on human rights and in

education in human rights,

Recalling also

the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,

2

in which

Governments were urged to create or strengthen independent national institutions

for the promotion and protection of human rights, including the human rights of

women,

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1 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.

2 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations

publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.