A/HRC/RES/39/20
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 October 2018
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Thirty-ninth session
10–28 September 2018
Agenda item 10
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 28 September 2018
39/20.
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 an obligation 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 Human Rights Council 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 and 36/30 of 29 September 2017, in which the Human Rights Council called
upon the international community to support the national efforts of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo and its institutions with a view to improving the situation of human
rights and to respond 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 36/30,
Taking note also of the joint communiqué issued by members of the United Nations
Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council of 19 July 2018, in
which they reiterated that effective, swift and sincere implementation of the agreement of
31 December 2016, including confidence-building measures and respect for fundamental
rights and the electoral timeline, were essential for a peaceful and credible electoral
process, a democratic transition of power, and the peace and stability of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo,
1
A/HRC/39/42.
GE.18-16395 (E)
081018 091018