A/HRC/RES/54/33
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
54/33.
Establishment of a regional office of the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights for the Caribbean Community
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the fundamental and universal principles enshrined in the Charter of the
United Nations,
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,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993, which reiterated
the need to consider the possibility of establishing regional and subregional arrangements for
the promotion and protection of human rights where they do not already exist, and
reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human
rights, economic, civil, cultural, political and social, including the right to development,
Recalling also General Assembly resolutions 32/127 of 16 December 1977 and
51/102 of 12 December 1996, Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/51 of 9 March
1993 and Human Rights Council resolution 43/17 of 22 June 2022, and all subsequent
Assembly and Council resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion and
protection of human rights,
Reaffirming that regional cooperation plays a fundamental role in promoting and
protecting human rights and should reinforce universal human rights, as contained in
international human rights instruments, and their protection,
Committed to enhancing subregional, regional and international cooperation to
promote universal promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, in
conformity with international obligations,
Convinced that cooperation between the United Nations and regional initiatives in the
field of human rights continues to be both substantive and supportive, and that possibilities
exist for increased cooperation,
Reaffirming that technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human
rights should continue to be based on consultations with and with the consent of the States
concerned, and should take into account their requests, needs and priorities, and the fact that
all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and should aim to
make a concrete impact on the ground,
GE.23-20066(E)