A/HRC/RES/31/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 April 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-first session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 March 2016
31/11.
The effects of foreign debt and other related international
financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all
human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural
rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and other relevant international
human rights instruments,
Reaffirming all resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission on Human
Rights and the Human Rights Council on the effects of structural adjustment and economic
reform policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly
economic, social and cultural rights, the latest being Council resolution 28/8 of 26 March
2015,
Reaffirming also its resolutions 25/9 of 27 March 2014 and 28/5 of 26 March 2015,
Reaffirming further its resolution S-10/1 of 23 February 2009 on the impact of the
global economic and financial crises on the universal realization and effective enjoyment of
human rights,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006,
Stressing that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve international
cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or
humanitarian character,
Emphasizing that the World Conference on Human Rights agreed to call upon the
international community to make all efforts to help to alleviate the external debt burden of
developing countries in order to supplement the efforts of the Governments of such
countries to attain the full realization of the economic, social and cultural rights of their
people,
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