In its resolution 72/247 of 24 December 2017 , the UN General Assembly decided to devote a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session, in 2018, within existing resources, to the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, with a view to giving impetus to its promotion in all regions, and requested the President of the General Assembly to conduct consultations with Member States in order to determine the scope of and modalities for that meeting.