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

A/RES/78/209View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2023.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 2013–2025

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

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/219	United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region	947	84%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/209	United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region	939	92%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/155	United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region	888	63%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/163	United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region	634	82%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/166	United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region	572	76%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

3 reports · 2013–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/305	United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/209
2014	A/69/333	United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/241
2013	A/68/287	United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/67/162

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Arab Countries Human Rights Southwest Asia Training Programmes

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;⁴

⁴A/78/518.

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, with an emphasis on young people, as well as support to national human rights institutions and civil society organizations on several human rights topics, and notes that the Centre also provided capacity-building activities in the areas of civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights, 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 that resulted in expanding its outreach to a growing number of beneficiaries, including women and young people;

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, as well as knowledge management and documentation activities, 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 education and training, knowledge management 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 in relation to human rights education and training, knowledge management 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;

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 eightieth session a report, in accordance with existing rules and procedures, on the implementation of the present resolution.

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