A/HRC/RES/28/28 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 2 April 2015 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth session Agenda item 8 Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 28/28. Contribution of the Human Rights Council to the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem of 2016 The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and other relevant international human rights instruments, Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, as well as Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007 and 16/21 of 25 March 2011, and decision 5/101 of 18 June 2007, Recalling in particular that the Human Rights Council has the mandate to, inter alia, promote universal respect for the protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without discrimination of any kind and in a fair and equal manner, to serve as a forum for dialogue on thematic issues on all human rights, and to promote the effective coordination and mainstreaming of human rights within the United Nations system, Reaffirming the universality, interdependence, indivisibility and interrelatedness of human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and consequently elaborated in other human rights instruments, Recalling the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 and the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988, Emphasizing the importance of both the universality of the three above-mentioned international drug-control conventions and their implementation, noting that they concern the health and welfare of humankind, and noting the need to promote adequate availability of internationally controlled narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes, in accordance with national legislation, while preventing their GE.15-07076 (E) 