A/HRC/RES/33/15 Recognizing the importance of the independent voice of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting all human rights, including, in accordance with their mandates, economic, social cultural, civil and political rights, particularly in the context of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,2 Welcoming the valuable participation and the contribution of national human rights institutions to all relevant United Nations mechanisms and processes, in accordance with their respective mandates, including, currently, the Commission on the Status of Women, the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, their continuing efforts in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and with regard to the follow-up to the recommendations of international human rights mechanisms, Commending the important role of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in assisting the development of independent and effective national human rights institutions, in accordance with the Paris Principles, and recognizing in this regard the potential for strengthened and complementary cooperation among the Office of the High Commissioner, the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions,3 regional networks of national human rights institutions and national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights, Welcoming the recent Mérida Declaration on the role of national human rights institutions in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted at the twelfth International Conference of Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions,4 and inviting national human rights institutions to continue their work in accordance with their mandates, Welcoming also the strengthening in all regions of regional and cross-regional cooperation among national human rights institutions, and between national human rights institutions and other regional human rights forums, 1. Welcomes the most recent reports of the Secretary-General submitted to the Human Rights Council on national human rights institutions5 and on the activities of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions in accrediting national human rights institutions in compliance with the Paris Principles;6 2. Encourages Member States to establish effective, independent and pluralistic national human rights institutions or, where they already exist, to strengthen them to enable the effective fulfilment of their mandate to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, as outlined in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and to do so in accordance with the Paris Principles; 3. Recognizes that, consistent with the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, it is the right of each State to choose the framework for national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights that is best suited to its particular needs at the national level in order to promote human rights in accordance with its international human rights obligations and commitments; 2 3 4 5 6 2 General Assembly resolution 70/1. Previously known as the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. See A/HRC/31/NI/14, annex. A/HRC/33/33. A/HRC/33/34.