A/RES/64/152. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2009

• Resolution Number: A/RES/64/152
• Year: 2009
• Session: 64th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/64/152

General Assembly Distr.: General

26 March 2010

Sixty-fourth session

Agenda item 69 (a)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.1and Corr.1)]

64/152. International Covenants on Human Rights

The General Assembly

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Recalling

its resolution 62/147 of 18 December 2007 and Commission on

Human Rights resolution 2004/69 of 21 April 2004,

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Mindful

that the International Covenants on Human Rights

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constitute the first

all-embracing and legally binding international treaties in the field of human rights

and, together with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

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form the core of the

International Bill of Human Rights,

Recalling

the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

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and reaffirming that

all human rights and fundamental freedoms are universal, indivisible,

interdependent and interrelated, that they should be treated in a fair and equal

manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, and that the promotion

and protection of one category of rights should never exempt or excuse States from

the promotion and protection of the other rights,

Recalling also

the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International

Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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by the General Assembly on the

occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

Recognizing

the important role of the Human Rights Committee and the

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in examining the progress

made by States parties in fulfilling the obligations undertaken in the International

Covenants on Human Rights and the Optional Protocols thereto and in providing

recommendations to States parties on their implementation,

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1 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II,

sect. A.

2 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

3 Resolution 217 A (III).

4 Resolution 63/117, annex.