A/RES/75/180. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2020

• Resolution Number: A/RES/75/180
• Year: 2020
• Session: 75th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES /75/ 180

General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

28 D ecember 2020

20-173 21 (E) 050121

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Seventy -fifth sessi on

Agen da item 72 (b)

Promoti on and protec tion of huma n rights: hu man

rights questions, i ncluding al ternative ap proaches for

improvi ng the effec tive enjoyme nt of human r ights and

fundame ntal freedo ms

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 16 December 2020

[on th e report of the Third Committe e (A/75/ 478/Add. 2, para. 89)]

75/180. Enhancement of international cooperation in th e field of

human rights

The General Assembly ,

Reaf firming its comm itment to promo ting int ernation al coop eration, as set f orth

in the Ch arter o f the United Natio ns, in partic ular Arti cle 1, parag raph 3 , as well a s

relev ant pr ovision s of t he Vienn a Decl aration and Progra mme of Action adopte d by

the World Confer ence on Human Righ ts on 25 June 199 3,

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for enhancin g ge nuine

coop eration among M ember S tates in the fie ld of hu man rig hts,

Reca llin g it s resolu tion 70 /1 of 25 Septem ber 201 5, entit led “Tran sformin g our

worl d: th e 203 0 Agend a for Sust ainable Deve lopment ”, in whic h the Gene ral

Asse mbly ado pted a co mprehen sive, fa r-reach ing and p eople- centred set of un iversal

and t ransfor mative S ustaina ble Dev elopment Goals,

Reca lling also its adopti on of the Unit ed N ations Millen nium Declar ation on

8 Sept ember 20 00,

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its resolut ion 74/ 153 of 18 Dece mber 2 019, Hum an Righ ts

Coun cil res olution 44/18 of 17 July 202 0

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and the re solution s of th e Comm ission on

Huma n Right s on the e nhancem ent of i nternati onal coo peration in the f ield of h uman

right s,

Reca lling fu rther th e World Con ference against Racism, Racial D iscrimin ation,

Xeno phobia and R elated Intoler ance, h eld in Durba n, Sou th Africa , from 31 Aug ust

to 8 Septemb er 2 001, the Durban Rev iew Confere nce, held in Geneva fro m 2 0 to

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A/CONF.15 7/24 ( Part I ), cha p. III.

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Resolut ion 55 /2.

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See Off icial Records of the Gener al Asse mbly, S eventy -fifth Sessio n, Sup plemen t No. 5 3

(A/7 5/53), chap. V, sect. A.