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

A/RES/76/155View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 74bHuman rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2021.

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9 versions · 2013–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/219

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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

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4 topics

Arab Countries Human Rights Southwest Asia Training Programmes

What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;

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 human rights and media and human rights education, as well as support to national human rights institutions on several human rights topics, and notes that the Centre also provided capacity-building activities in the areas of new media and digital technology, the countering of hate speech and incitement to discrimination, combating gender discrimination and the prevention of violent extremism;

Also notes with appreciation the Centre’s adaptation of its methodology to the challenges linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, which enabled it to continue to implement its annual workplan, through the organization of a large number of online activities and by bringing together participants from the majority of countries covered by its mandate;

Welcomes the Centre’s efforts to reinforce the documentation component of its mandate, notably the production and dissemination of human rights resource materials in Arabic and other languages;

Also welcomes the Centre’s plan, for the coming two years, to strengthen its efforts to accommodate the needs of the 25 States under its coverage by developing the human rights education programme, with more emphasis on the youth sector, in line with the fourth phase (2020–2024) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, and to further develop its training programmes for State institutions, national human rights institutions and civil society organizations, and notes its call for additional voluntary resources in order to be able to do so;

Further welcomes the work undertaken by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to enhance the Centre’s ability to carry out its mandate and respond to the growing needs from the region by further developing it into a centre for excellence in the area of human rights training, education and documentation for all relevant stakeholders in the region;

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 Arabic and other languages;

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 in and impact on strengthening human rights capacities in the region;

Encourages the continued engagement of the Centre to work with other United Nations regional offices to strengthen its work and to avoid duplication;

Encourages Member States to provide voluntary contributions to support the Centre in carrying out its mandate;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session a report, in accordance with existing rules and procedures, on the implementation of the present resolution.

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