A/RES/69/192. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Resolution Number: A/RES/69/192
• Session: 69th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/69/192

General Assembly Distr.: General

26 January 2015

Sixty-ninth session

Agenda item 105

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/489)]

69/192. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

The General Assembly

,

Guided

by the principal purposes of the United Nations, as set out in the

Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of

Human Rights,

1

and inspired by the determination to reaffirm faith in fundamental

human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, without distinction of

any kind, and in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small,

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising

from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained and to

promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Bearing in mind

the long-standing concern of the United Nations for the

humanization of criminal justice and the protection of human rights,

Aware

that the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

2

remain

the universally acknowledged minimum standards for the detention of prisoners and

that they have been of value and influence in the development of correctional laws,

policies and practices since their adoption by the First United Nations Congress on

the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, in 1955,

Mindful

that, in the Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Strategies for

Global Challenges: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their

Development in a Changing World,

3

Member States recognized that an effective,

fair, accountable and humane criminal justice system was based on the commitment

to uphold the protection of human rights in the administration of justice and the

prevention and control of crime, and acknowledged the value and impact of the

United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice in

designing and implementing national crime prevention and criminal justice policies,

laws, procedures and programmes,

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1 Resolution 217 A (III).

2 Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, Volume I (First Part), Universal Instruments

(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.XIV.4 (Vol. I, Part 1)), sect. J, No. 34.

3 Resolution 65/230, annex.