A/HRC/RES/33/6
(a)
Considering ratifying international human rights conventions and covenants;
(b)
Fully implementing international human rights conventions and covenants to
which they are party;
(c)
Enhancing and developing good governance, democratic systems, the rule of
law and accountability;
(d)
Adopting policies to ensure the enjoyment of all human rights, including
civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights;
(e)
Addressing all forms of discrimination, including racial discrimination;
(f)
Addressing factors, inter alia inequality and poverty, that may lead to
situations in which human rights violations are committed;
(g)
Promoting a free and active civil society;
(h)
Promoting freedom of opinion and expression;
(i)
Ensuring, where they exist, strong and independent national human rights
institutions, in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions
for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles);
(j)
Promoting human rights education and training;
(k)
Ensuring an independent and functioning judiciary;
(l)
Fighting corruption;
4.
Welcomes the role of national human rights institutions in contributing to the
prevention of human rights violations, and encourages States to strengthen the mandate and
capacity of such institutions, where they exist, to enable them to fulfil this role effectively
in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the
promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles);
5.
Continues to invite national human rights institutions to consider addressing
the issue of the role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights in the
framework of relevant international and regional forums;
6.
Welcomes the role of civil society in contributing to the promotion of human
rights and the prevention of human rights violations;
7.
Acknowledges that, in its resolution 60/251, the General Assembly decided
that the Human Rights Council shall, inter alia, contribute, through dialogue and
cooperation, towards the prevention of human rights violations and respond promptly to
human rights emergencies;
8.
Also acknowledges the importance of the universal periodic review as a
cooperative mechanism of the Human Rights Council aimed at, inter alia, improvement of
human rights situations on the ground and the fulfilment of States’ human rights obligations
and commitments, based on the principle of promoting the universality, interdependence,
indivisibility and interrelatedness of all human rights;
9.
Stresses the need to develop further the concept of the prevention of human
rights violations and to step up efforts to raise awareness of prevention in the promotion
and protection of human rights in order to encourage its reflection in relevant policies and
strategies at the national, regional and international levels;
10.
Recognizes the need for further research to assist States, at their request, and
other stakeholders to understand and mainstream the role of prevention in the promotion
and protection of human rights;
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