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The Role of the Ombudsman, Mediator and Other National Human Rights Institutions in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/RES/71/200No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 68bHuman rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2009–2018
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/72/186
  • 2018A/RES/72/186The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rightsLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2017A/RES/71/200The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rightsCompare with previous version
  • 2015A/RES/69/168The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rightsCompare with previous version
  • 2013A/RES/67/163The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rightsCompare with previous version
  • 2011A/RES/65/207The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rightsCompare 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?

4 topics
Human Rights InstitutionsMediationOmbudsmanReport Preparation

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2017.

  • 2017A/72/230The role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General

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

What does this mandate say?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General, in which he refers the General Assembly to his report on national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights submitted to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-third session, in September 2016;
2
Recalls paragraph 1 of resolution 69/168, in which it regretted that no specific report on the implementation of resolution 67/163 had been prepared;
3
Regrets that, once again, the Secretariat did not provide a specific report on the implementation of General Assembly resolutions on the role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights, despite the request in resolution 69/168, and that the notes by the Secretary-General referring to the reports submitted to the Human Rights Council did not fully correspond to the specific requests by the Assembly in resolutions 69/168 and 67/163;
4
Notes, in this regard, the functional and structural differences between national human rights institutions, on the one hand, and the Ombudsman and mediator institutions, on the other, and underlines in this regard that reports on the implementation of General Assembly resolutions on the role of the Ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions should be stand-alone reports;
5
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session the report requested in resolution 69/168;
6
Recalls its request in resolution 69/168 that the Secretary-General report in particular on the obstacles encountered by States in implementing the resolution, as well as on best practices in the work and functioning of ombudsman, mediator and other human rights institutions, and requests him to seek the views of States and other relevant stakeholders, in particular ombudsman, mediator and other national human rights institutions, as well as civil society, in this regard, and to formulate recommendations in his report on how to establish or strengthen such institutions.

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