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United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region

A/RES/68/241No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 69bHuman rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 2013–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/219
  • 2025A/RES/80/219United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab RegionLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2023A/RES/78/209United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab RegionCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/76/155United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab RegionCompare with previous version
  • 2020A/RES/74/163United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab RegionCompare with previous version
  • 2018A/RES/72/166United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab RegionCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics
Arab CountriesDocumentationHuman Rights InstitutionsSouthwest AsiaTraining Programmes

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2014.

  • 2014A/69/333United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;Error: Reference source not found
2
Notes with appreciation the successful assistance that the Centre has provided through human rights capacity-building activities, technical assistance programmes, training activities and regional consultations on the topics of United Nations human rights mechanisms, human trafficking, the media and human rights education;
3
Underlines the Centre’s role as a source for regional expertise and the need to meet an increasing number of requests for training and documentation, including in the Arabic language, which require additional resources and the reinforcement of its activities;
4
Notes that the current levels of human and financial resources are limiting the Centre’s capacity to respond in a timely and sustainable manner to the increasing requests to provide continuous follow-up support to the countries of the region and to appropriately respond to their needs;
5
Encourages the continued engagement of the Centre to work with other United Nations regional offices to strengthen its work and to avoid duplication;
6
Reaffirms the request contained in paragraph 5 of its resolution 67/162, and endorses the proposal of the Secretary-General to strengthen the Centre, as proposed in his report, with the costs to be borne by the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources, as recommended by the Secretary-General, in order to ensure the full implementation of the mandate of the Centre;
7
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session a report, in accordance with existing rules and procedures, on the implementation of the present resolution.

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