A/RES/73/178. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2018

• Resolution Number: A/RES/73/178
• Session: 73rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES /73/ 178

General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

23 J anuary 2 019

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Seventy -third sess ion

Agen da item 74 (b)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 17 December 2018

[on th e report of the Third Committe e (A/73/ 589/ Add.2 )]

73/178. Missing persons

The General Assembly ,

Guid ed by the purpos es, pri nciples and pr ovisions of th e Chart er of the Uni ted

Nati ons,

Guide d also by the princip les an d nor ms of inter national humanit arian law, in

partic ular t he Gen eva Conventions of 12 Aug ust 1949

1

and the Additional Protoc ols

theret o of 1977,

2

as well as inte rnational standards of human rights, in par ticular the

Univer sal Declarati on o f H uman Rights,

3

th e In ternational Co venant on Econom ic,

Social and Cul tural Rig hts,

4

the Internation al Covena nt on Ci vil and Political R ights,4

the Con vention on the Elimination of All Forms of Dis criminatio n against Women ,

5

the

Conve ntion on t he Rights of the C hild

6

and the Vienna D eclaration and Progr amme of

Action adopted b y the World Co nference on Human Rig hts on 25 June 1993,

7

Reca llin g the acces sion by 58 States to the Inte rnationa l C onventi on for the

Prote ction of Al l Person s from Enf orced Di sappear ance,

8

and c alling u pon State s that

have not yet done so to co nsider signi ng, ratifyin g or acce ding to it as a ma tter of

prior ity, as wel l as to conside r the opt ion p rovided for in artic les 31 a nd 3 2 of the

Conv ention r egardin g the Co mmittee on Enfo rced Di sappear ances,

Reca lling a lso all previo us rele vant re solutio ns on missing perso ns ado pted by

the Gene ral Assemb ly, as we ll as th e resolu tions a nd decis ions ad opted b y the

Comm ission on Huma n Right s and th e Human Rights Council ,

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1

United Nations , Treaty Serie s, vol . 75, Nos. 9 70–9 73.

2

Ibid., vol. 1125 , Nos . 175 12 and 17513 .

3

Resolut ion 21 7 A (III).

4

See res olution 2200 A (XXI), an nex.

5

United Nations , Treaty Serie s, vol . 1249, N o. 20 378 .

6

Ibid., vol. 157 7, No . 275 31.

7

A/CONF.15 7/2 4 (P art I), chap. III.

8

United Nations , Treaty Serie s, vol . 2716, N o. 48 088 .