A/HRC/RES/54/34
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 October 2023
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on
12 October 2023
54/34.
Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming that all States have a responsibility to promote and protect the human
rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to discharge their obligations under the
International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant instruments to which they are
parties,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006,
Recalling also its resolutions 5/1 of 18 June 2007, 7/20 of 27 March 2008 and S-8/1
of 1 December 2008,
Recalling further its resolutions 10/33 of 27 March 2009, 13/22 of 26 March 2010,
16/35 of 25 March 2011, 19/27 of 23 March 2012, 24/27 of 27 September 2013, 27/27 of
26 September 2014, 30/26 of 2 October 2015, 33/29 of 30 September 2016, 35/33 of 23 June
2017, 36/30 of 29 September 2017, 39/20 of 28 September 2018, 42/34 of 27 September
2019, 45/34 of 7 October 2020, 48/20 of 11 October 2021 and 51/36 of 7 October 2022, in
which the Human Rights Council called upon the international community to support the
efforts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its institutions with a view to improving
the situation of human rights and responding to its requests for technical assistance,
Taking note of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
on the human rights situation and the activities of the United Nations Joint Human Rights
Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,1 submitted to the Human Rights Council in
accordance with its resolution 51/36,
Deeply concerned about the continuing human rights violations and abuses being
committed against children and women in the east and certain areas of the west of the country,
in the light of the report by the team of international experts on the Democratic Republic of
the Congo, 2 including sexual and gender-based violence, and affirming the necessity of
preventing, condemning and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, of
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A/HRC/54/73.
A/HRC/54/76.
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