A/RES/68/171. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/171
• Year: 2013
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/68/171

General Assembly Distr.: General

23 January 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 69 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.2)]

68/171. National institutions for the promotion and protection

of human rights

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its previous resolutions on national institutions for the promotion

and protection of human rights, the most recent of which was resolution 66/169 of

19 December 2011, and those of the Commission on Human Rights and the Human

Rights Council concerning national institutions and their role in the promotion and

protection of human rights, the most recent of which are Council resolutions 20/14

of 5 July 2012

1

and 23/17 of 13 June 2013,

2

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,

Recalling

the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the

promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles),

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and welcoming the

twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the principles,

Reaffirming

the important role that such national institutions play and will

continue to play in promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental

freedoms, in strengthening participation and the rule of law and in developing and

enhancing public awareness of those rights and freedoms,

Recalling

its resolution 67/163 of 20 December 2012 on the role of the

Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion

and protection of human rights,

Recognizing

the important role of the United Nations, in particular the Office

of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in assisting the

development of independent and effective national human rights institutions, guided

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1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and

corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. IV, sect. A.

2 Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. V, sect. A.

3 Resolution 48/134, annex.