A/HRC/RES/54/15
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 October 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 October 2023
54/15.
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling also all previous resolutions on human rights and unilateral coercive
measures adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council and the
General Assembly,
Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolution 52/13 of 3 April 2023 and General
Assembly resolution 77/214 of 15 December 2022,
Stressing that unilateral coercive measures and legislation are contrary to international
law, international humanitarian law, the Charter and the norms and principles governing
peaceful relations among States,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 70/1 entitled “Transforming our world: the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” of 25 September 2015, which strongly urged
States to refrain from promulgating and applying any unilateral economic, financial or trade
measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that impede the full
achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing countries,
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated character of all
human rights, and in this regard reaffirming the right to development as a universal and
inalienable right and an integral part of all human rights,
Expressing its grave concern at the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures
on human rights, the rule of law, development, international relations, trade, investment and
cooperation,
Reaffirming that no State may use or encourage the use of any type of measure,
including but not limited to economic or political measures, to coerce another State in order
to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights and to secure from
it advantages of any kind,
Recognizing that unilateral coercive measures in the form of economic, financial,
trade and delivery sanctions have far-reaching implications for the human rights of the
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