Human Rights Treaty Body System

A/RES/79/165View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71aImplementation of human rights instruments, published in 2024.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2017–2024

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2017A/RES/71/185Human rights treaty body system

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3 topics

Human Rights Human Rights Monitoring Treaty-Monitoring Bodies

What does this mandate say?

12 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the human rights treaty body system;

Welcomes the annual reports of the human rights treaty bodies submitted to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth and seventy-ninth sessions and to the Economic and Social Council at its 2023 and 2024 sessions;

Invites the Chairs of the human rights treaty bodies to address and engage in an interactive dialogue with the General Assembly at its eightieth and eighty-first sessions under the item relevant to the work of the treaty body;

Encourages all stakeholders to continue their efforts for the full implementation of resolution 68/268;

Reaffirms paragraphs 26 to 28 of its resolution 68/268, in which it set out how the allocation of meeting time to the treaty bodies would be identified and requested the Secretary-General to provide the corresponding financial and human resources, decided that the meeting time allocated would be reviewed biennially and amended on that basis at the request of the Secretary-General in line with established budgetary procedures, and requested the Secretary-General accordingly to take into account the meeting time needed by the human rights treaty body system in his future annual programme budget;

Reaffirms its invitation to the human rights treaty bodies and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, within their respective mandates, to continue to work to increase coordination and predictability in the reporting process, including through cooperation with States parties, with the aim of achieving a clear and regularized schedule for reporting by States parties;

Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic showed the need to strengthen the capacity of the treaty bodies to engage and interact online and that the impact of the pandemic created an urgency to use digitalization for improved efficiency, transparency and accessibility of the treaty bodies and the interaction with all relevant stakeholders;

Invites the treaty bodies to increase their efforts to further the use of digital technologies in their work, including in their consideration of periodic reports and individual communications, as well as to facilitate participation and accessibility of States parties and all relevant stakeholders in the mandated activities of the treaty bodies, including by means of videoconference, while stressing that in-person interaction and multilingualism remain a crucial component of their work, requests the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in its capacity as secretariat of the treaty bodies, with the assistance of United Nations country teams, as appropriate, through their existing videoconferencing facilities, to provide States parties, upon their request, with necessary assistance in this regard, and welcomes voluntary contributions from Member States to facilitate this work further;

Expresses appreciation for the organization of discussions on matters related to the implementation of each human rights treaty at meetings of the States parties thereto, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to support such practices;

Also expresses appreciation for the opportunity to interact with the Chairs of the treaty bodies during their annual meetings, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to support such opportunities;

Further expresses appreciation for the advisory services, capacity-building and technical assistance provided by the Secretary-General to support States parties in building their capacity to implement their treaty obligations, and requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts in this regard;

Reiterates its request, made in paragraph 40 of its resolution 68/268, that the Secretary-General submit to the General Assembly at its eighty-first session a report on the status of the human rights treaty body system.

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