A/HRC/RES/54/28
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 October 2023
Original: English
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
54/28.
Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field
of human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
particularly with regard to achieving international cooperation in promoting and encouraging
respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of any
kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social
origin, property, birth or other status,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and recalling all relevant
human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Noting that 2023 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights and the thirtieth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action,
Recognizing that, in the context of technical cooperation and capacity-building, the
enhancement of international cooperation is essential for the effective promotion, protection
and fulfilment of human rights, which should be based on the principles of cooperation and
genuine dialogue and aimed at strengthening the capacity of States to promote, protect and
fulfil human rights, to prevent human rights violations and to comply with their human rights
obligations for the benefit of all human beings,
Bearing in mind the mandate of the Human Rights Council, as stated by the General
Assembly in its resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, to promote advisory services, technical
assistance and capacity-building, to be provided in consultation with and with the consent of
the States concerned, and the provisions of Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007
and 16/21 of 25 March 2011 that aim to enable the Council to fulfil such a mandate,
Recalling all relevant Human Rights Council resolutions on the enhancement of
technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights, on strengthening the
voluntary funds for the universal periodic review mechanism of the Human Rights Council,
and on the promotion and protection of human rights and the implementation of the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolution 51/33 of 7 October 2022, in which
the Council considered that the implementation of human rights obligations and
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