A/HRC/RES/29/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 July 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-ninth session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 2 July 2015
29/11.
The negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of
human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants
on Human Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and the
Human Rights Council, including Council resolutions 19/20 of 23 March 2012 on the role
of good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights, 21/13 of 27
September 2012 on a panel discussion on the negative impact of corruption on the
enjoyment of human rights, and 23/9 of 13 June 2013,
Recalling also that the United Nations Convention against Corruption, to which 140
States are signatories and 175 States are parties, has been the most comprehensive and
universal instrument on corruption since its entry into force on 14 December 2005, of
which the purposes are outlined in its article 1,
Noting with interest the outcomes of the third, fourth and fifth sessions of the
Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, held,
respectively, in Doha in 2009, in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2011, and in Panama City in
2013, and looking forward to the sixth session of the Conference, to be held in Saint
Petersburg, Russian Federation, in 2015,
Reaffirming that States have the primary responsibility for the promotion and
protection of human rights,
Acknowledging that good governance has a central role in the promotion and
protection of human rights and in the prevention of and the fight against corruption at all
levels,
Deeply concerned about the increasing negative impact of widespread corruption on
the enjoyment of all human rights, including by reducing the resources available for all
sectors in development, thereby hampering the realization of all human rights,
GE.15-12355(E)
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