A/HRC/RES/36/30
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 October 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-sixth session
11–29 September 2017
Agenda item 10
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 29 September 2017
36/30.
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, to discharge their obligations under the
International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant instruments to which they are
parties, and to fulfil their obligations under those treaties and agreements,
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 and 30/26 of 2 October 2015, 33/29 of 30 September 2016 and 35/33 of
23 June 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, submitted to the Human Rights Council in accordance with its resolution 33/29, on
the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the activities of
the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,1
Welcoming the progress made by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in
particular at the institutional and legislative levels, with the adoption by the Senate of an act
relating to the protection and responsibility of human rights defenders and the creation of
1
A/HRC/36/34.
GE.17-17395(E)