Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Recognizes that progress in promoting and protecting all human rights depends primarily on efforts made at the national and local levels, and that the regional approach should imply intensive cooperation and coordination with all partners involved, while bearing in mind the importance of international cooperation; invites States in areas in which regional arrangements in the field of human rights do not yet exist to consider, with the support and advice of national human rights institutions and civil society organizations, concluding agreements with a view to establishing, within their respective regions, suitable regional machinery for the promotion and protection of human rights; requests the Secretary-General to continue to strengthen exchanges between the UN and regional intergovernmental organizations dealing with human rights and to make available adequate resources from within the regular budget of technical cooperation to the activities of the Office of the High Commissioner to promote regional arrangements.

Adopted without vote, 81st plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.