A/HRC/RES/23/9
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 June 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-third session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council∗
23/9.
The negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human
rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, its purposes and principles, and
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 21/13 of 27 September 2012 on the
panel on the negative impact of corruption on human rights, and 19/20 of 23 March 2012,
on the role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human right, as well as
General Assembly resolution 67/192 of 20 December 2012, on preventing and combating
corrupt practices and the transfer of proceeds of corruption, facilitating asset recovery and
returning such assets to legitimate owners, in particular to the countries of origin, in
accordance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and the United Nations
Millennium Declaration,
Recalling also the United Nations Convention against Corruption, which is the most
comprehensive and universal instrument on corruption, and all relevant resolutions of the
Conference of the State Parties to the Convention,
Deeply concerned about the increasing negative impact of widespread corruption on
the enjoyment of human rights,
∗
GE.13-14972
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report
of the Council on its twenty-third session (A/HRC/23/2), chap. I.
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