From A/60/509/Add.2(Part II) (Report of the Third Committee on Human rights questions: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms) December 6, 2005 Establishment of a United Nations human rights training and documentation centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region The General Assembly, Guided by the fundamental and universal principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993, which reiterated the need to consider the possibility of establishing regional and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights where they do not already exist, Recalling also its resolutions 32/127 of 16 December 1977, 51/102 of 12 December 1996 and all its subsequent resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, Recalling further Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/51 of 9 March 1993 and all its subsequent resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, Recalling the report of the Secretary-General on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, Reaffirming it endorsement of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993, the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights, economic, civil, cultural, political and social, including the right to development, Reaffirming also that regional cooperation plays a fundamental role in promoting and protecting human rights and should reinforce universal human rights, as contained in international human rights instruments, and their protection, Committed to enhancing subregional, regional and international cooperation to promote universal respect, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms, in conformity with international obligations, Convinced that cooperation between the United Nations and regional initiatives in the field of human rights continues to be both substantive and supportive and that possibilities exist for increased cooperation, Recalling its resolutions 49/184 of 23 December 1994, proclaiming the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004), and 59/113 of 10 December 2004, proclaiming the World Programme for Human Rights Education to begin on 1 January 2005, and Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1993/56 of 9 March 1993 on education and human rights, and 2003/70 of 25 April 2003, on the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, Recognizing that human rights education can play a crucial role in enhancing respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and can contribute to the promotion of human rights, the achievement of a culture of peace, in particular the teaching of the practice of non-violence, and respect for the rule of law, Noting the endorsement and the support expressed by the Council of the League of Arab States and the member States of the Gulf Cooperation Council and in the Brasilia Declaration adopted at the South American and Arab Countries Summit for the initiative of the State of Qatar to host a United Nations centre for human rights for South-West Asia and the Arab region, Noting also Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2005/71 and 2005/73 of 20 April 2005 welcoming the offer by the Government of Qatar to host a United Nations centre for human rights in South-West Asia and the Arab region, Noting further the support expressed by the thirteenth Workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region, held in Beijing from 30 August to 2 September 2005, for the initiative of the State of Qatar to host a United Nations centre for human rights for South-West Asia and the Arab region, Mindful of the vastness of and the diversity within South-West Asia and the Arab region, 1. Takes note with satisfaction of the continuing cooperation and assistance of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the further strengthening of the existing regional arrangements and regional machineries for the promotion and protection of human rights, in particular through technical cooperation, which is aimed at national capacity-building, public information and education, with a view to exchanging information and experience in the field of human rights; 2. Welcomes the initiative of the Government of Qatar to host a United Nations human rights training and documentation centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region, which will be under the supervision of the Office of the High Commissioner, with the mandate to undertake training and documentation activities according to international human rights standards and to support such efforts within the region by Governments, United Nations agencies and programmes, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations; 3. Requests the Secretary-General and the Office of the High Commissioner to give their support to the establishment of a United Nations human rights training and documentation centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region, to conclude an agreement with the host country regarding its establishment and to make available resources for the establishment of the centre; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution; 5. Decides to consider this question further at its sixty-first session. Resolution 217 A (III). A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda (E/1993/23 and Corr.2, 4 and 5), chap. II, sect. A. A/59/323. See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda (E/1993/23 and Corr.2, 4 and 5), chap. II, sect. A. Ibid., 2003, Supplement No. 3 (E/2003/23), chap. II.A. A/59/818, annex. See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 (E/2005/23), chap. II.B.