A/HRC/RES/49/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 April 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-ninth session
28 February–1 April 2022
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 1 April 2022
49/25.
Ensuring equitable, affordable, timely and universal access for all
countries to vaccines in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
pandemic
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Stressing that States bear the primary responsibility to respect, protect and fulfil
human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Recalling that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve international
cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or
humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of any kind,
Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination,
Recalling other relevant international human rights instruments, including the
Declaration on the Right to Development, and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action, in which it is established that all human rights are universal, indivisible and
interdependent and interrelated,
Emphasizing that States need to ensure that all human rights are respected, protected
and fulfilled while combating the pandemic and that their responses to the COVID-19
pandemic respect and are in full compliance with their obligations under international law,
including international humanitarian law and international human rights law,
Recalling also General Assembly resolutions 74/270 of 2 April 2020, 74/274 of 20
April 2020, 74/306 of 11 September 2020, 74/307 of 11 September 2020 and 76/175 of 16
December 2021, Human Rights Council resolutions 41/10 of 19 July 2019, 44/2 of 21 July
2020 and 46/14 of 23 March 2021, World Health Assembly resolutions WHA73.1 of 19 May
2020 and WHA74.7 of 31 May 2021, as well as World Health Assembly decision 74(16) of
GE.22-05239(E)