A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/54/180 24 February 2000 Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 116 (b) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/605/Add.2)] 54/180. Human rights and mass exoduses The General Assembly, Deeply disturbed by the scale and magnitude of exoduses and displacements of people in many regions of the world and by the human suffering of refugees and displaced persons, a high proportion of whom are women and children, Recalling its previous relevant resolutions, as well as those of the Commission on Human Rights, in particular Commission resolution 1998/49 of 17 April 1998,1 and the conclusions of the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993,2 which recognized that gross violations of human rights, persecution, political and ethnic conflicts, famine and economic insecurity, poverty and generalized violence are among the root causes leading to mass exodus and displacements of people, and also recalling the second open debate that was held in the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict on 16 and 17 September 1999,3 1 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II, sect. A. 2 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. See S/PV.4046, S/PV.4046 (Resumption 1) and Corr.2 and S/PV.4046 (Resumption 2). For the final text, see Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-fourth Year, 4046th meeting. 3 /...