A/HRC/RES/35/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 July 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fifth session
6–23 June 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 June 2017
35/25.
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 and 31/14 of
23 March 2016, 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, 23/9 of 13 June 2013 and 29/11 of 2 July
2015,
Recalling also that the United Nations Convention against Corruption, to which 140
States are signatories and 181 States are parties, has been the most comprehensive and
universal instrument on corruption since its entry into force on 14 December 2005, and the
purposes of which 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, in Panama City in 2013,
and the sixth session of the Conference, held in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, in
2015, as well as plans to convene the seventh session of the Conference in Vienna in 2017,
and stressing the need for States parties to the Convention to ensure the effective
implementation of the resolutions adopted by the Conference,
Noting the compilation of best practices of efforts to counter the negative impact of
corruption on the enjoyment of all human rights developed by States, national human rights
institutions, national anti-corruption authorities, civil society and academia, prepared by the
GE.17-11925(E)