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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/152
7 February 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 114 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.3)]
48/152.
Situation of human rights in Afghanistan
The General Assembly,
Guided by the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations,
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1/ and the International Covenants
on Human Rights 2/ and accepted humanitarian rules, as set out in the Geneva
Conventions of 12 August 1949 3/ and the Additional Protocols thereto, of
1977, 4/
Aware of its responsibility to promote and encourage respect for human
rights and fundamental freedoms for all and resolved to remain vigilant with
regard to violations of human rights wherever they occur,
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and
protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the obligations
they have freely undertaken under the various international instruments,
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/37 of 24 May 1984,
in which the Council requested the Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights
to appoint a special rapporteur to examine the situation of human rights in
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1/
Resolution 217 A (III).
2/
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3/
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
4/
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
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