Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005  [on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.2 (Part II))]  60/155. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures        The General Assembly,    Recalling all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which  was resolution 59/188 of 20 December 2004, and Commission on Human Rights  resolution 2005/14 of 14 April 2005,1    Reaffirming the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the Charter of  Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General Assembly in its  resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 thereof, in  which it declared that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or  any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the  subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights,    Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 2  submitted pursuant to  Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/21 of 23 April 1999,3 and the reports  of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolutions 52/120 of 12 December  19974 and 55/110 of 4 December 2000,5    Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated character  of all human rights, and, in this regard, reaffirming the right to development as an  integral part of all human rights,    Recalling that the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from  14 to 25 June 1993, called upon States to refrain from any unilateral coercive measure  not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations that  creates obstacles to trade relations among States and impedes the full realization of all  human rights,6  _______________  1 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum  (E/2005/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.  2 E/CN.4/2000/46 and Add.1.  3 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/23), chap. II,  sect. A.  4 A/53/293 and Add.1.  5 A/56/207 and Add.1.  6 See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III, sect. I, para. 31.   A/RES/60/155  2    Bearing in mind all the references to this question in the Copenhagen  Declaration on Social Development adopted by the World Summit for Social  Development on 12 March 1995, 7 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action  adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995, 8 the  Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda adopted by the  second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) on 14 June  1996,9 and their five-year reviews,    Expressing its concern about the negative impact of unilateral coercive  measures on international relations, trade, investment and cooperation,    Expressing its grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is  adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with  international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States,  impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well- being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for  women and children, including adolescents,    Deeply concerned that, despite the recommendations adopted on this question  by the General Assembly and recent major United Nations conferences, and contrary  to general international law and the Charter, unilateral coercive measures continue to  be promulgated and implemented with all their negative implications for the  social-humanitarian activities and economic and social development of developing  countries, including their extraterritorial effects, thereby creating additional obstacles  to the full enjoyment of all human rights by peoples and individuals under the  jurisdiction of other States,    Bearing in mind all the extraterritorial effects of any unilateral legislative,  administrative and economic measures, policies and practices of a coercive nature  against the development process and the enhancement of human rights in developing  countries, which create obstacles to the full realization of all human rights,    Noting the continuing efforts of the open-ended Working Group on the Right to  Development of the Commission on Human Rights, and reaffirming in particular its  criteria, according to which unilateral coercive measures are one of the obstacles to  the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development,10    1.  Urges all States to refrain from adopting or implementing any unilateral  measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United  Nations, in particular those of a coercive nature with all their extraterritorial effects,  which create obstacles to trade relations among States, thus impeding the full  realization of the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights11 and  other international human rights instruments, in particular the right of individuals and  peoples to development;  _______________  7 Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations  publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.  8 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations  publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.  9 Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3–14 June 1996  (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.IV.6), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.  10 Resolution 41/128, annex.  11 Resolution 217 A (III).   A/RES/60/155  3    2.  Also urges all States to take steps to avoid and to refrain from adopting  any unilateral measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that  impede the full achievement of economic and social development by the population  of the affected countries, in particular children and women, that hinder their well- being and that create obstacles to the full enjoyment of their human rights, including  the right of everyone to a standard of living adequate for their health and well-being  and their right to food, medical care and the necessary social services, as well as to  ensure that food and medicine are not used as tools for political pressure;    3.  Invites all States to consider adopting administrative or legislative  measures, as appropriate, to counteract the extraterritorial applications or effects of  unilateral coercive measures;    4.  Rejects unilateral coercive measures with all their extraterritorial effects as  tools for political or economic pressure against any country, in particular against  developing countries, because of their negative effects on the realization of all the  human rights of vast sectors of their populations, in particular children, women and  the elderly;    5.  Calls upon Member States that have initiated such measures to commit  themselves to their obligations and responsibilities arising from the international  human rights instruments to which they are party by revoking such measures at the  earliest possible time;    6.  Reaffirms, in this context, the right of all peoples to self-determination, by  virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their  economic, social and cultural development;    7.  Urges the Commission on Human Rights to take fully into account the  negative impact of unilateral coercive measures, including the enactment of national  laws and their extraterritorial application, in its task concerning the implementation of  the right to development;    8.  Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in  discharging her functions relating to the promotion, realization and protection of the  right to development and bearing in mind the continuing impact of unilateral coercive  measures on the population of developing countries, to give priority to the present  resolution in her annual report to the General Assembly;    9.  Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the  attention of all Member States, to continue to collect their views and information on  the implications and negative effects of unilateral coercive measures on their  populations and to submit an analytical report thereon to the General Assembly at its  sixty-first session, highlighting the practical and preventive measures in this respect;    10.  Decides to examine the question on a priority basis at its sixty-first session  under the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative approaches  for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms”.