A/HRC/RES/49/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 April 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-ninth session
28 February–1 April 2022
Agenda item 2
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the
High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 31 March 2022
49/3.
Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other relevant international human rights
instruments,
Reaffirming the primary responsibility of States to respect, protect and fulfil all human
rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil their obligations under the human rights treaties
to which they are party and other human rights agreements to which they have subscribed,
Recalling its resolutions 40/2 of 21 March 2019, 43/2 of 19 June 2020 and 46/2 of 23
March 2021 on the promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua,
Welcoming the oral updates of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua, presented to the Human Rights Council
at its forty-seventh and forty-eighth sessions, the interim oral update of the High
Commissioner on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua in the context of the electoral
process, presented to the Council on 14 December 2021, and the comprehensive written
report of the High Commissioner on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua, presented to
the Council at its present session,1
Expressing alarm at the democratic backsliding and continuing sociopolitical and
human rights crisis in Nicaragua, as well as the erosion of the rule of law, the independence
of the judiciary and the separation of powers, and their multidimensional impact on the
enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights,
Expressing serious concern at the continued disregard of Nicaragua for its
international human rights obligations, including its failure to submit periodic reports to the
relevant treaty bodies, and expressing concern at the State’s unwillingness to engage in a
constructive dialogue with the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
Expressing concern at the continuous refusal of Nicaragua to cooperate with
international and regional human rights mechanisms, particularly the Office of the United
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GE.22-05073(E)