A/HRC/RES/45/22 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 13 October 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fifth session 14 September–7 October 2020 Agenda item 8 Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 6 October 2020 45/22. National human rights institutions The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and other relevant instruments, Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually reinforcing and that all human rights must be treated in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights on national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, including most recently Council resolution 39/17 of 28 September 2018 and Assembly resolution 74/156 of 18 December 2019, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the Assembly adopted the outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda and pledged that no one would be left behind, Recalling further General Assembly resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Recalling that the 2030 Agenda is guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter, grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties, the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and informed by other instruments, such as the Declaration on the Right to Development, and recognizing, inter alia, the need to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies that provide equal access to justice and are based on respect for all human rights, effective rule of law and good governance at all levels and transparent, effective and accountable institutions, Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and reaffirming also its statement of the important and constructive role played by national human rights institutions, in particular in their advisory capacity to the competent authorities, and their role GE.20-13341(E) 