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

A/RES/70/171No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 72bHuman rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2016.

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?

6 topics
Arab CountriesDocumentationHuman RightsInstitutional MachinerySouthwest AsiaTraining Programmes

What does this mandate say?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;4
2
Notes with appreciation the successful assistance that the United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region has provided through human rights capacity-building activities, technical assistance programmes and training programmes on combating human trafficking, human rights and media, human rights and diplomacy, human rights education and police training on human rights, as well as support to national human rights institutions and regional consultations on the topics of United Nations human rights mechanisms;
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;
4
Notes that the increasing demand that has been placed on the Centre by Member States and other stakeholders reveals a growing recognition of its role and impact on strengthening human rights capacities in the region;
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
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session a report, in accordance with existing rules and procedures, on the implementation of the present resolution.

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