A/HRC/RES/50/10
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 July 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fiftieth session
13 June–8 July 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 7 July 2022
50/10.
Mandate of Independent Expert on protection against violence and
discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which the
Assembly stated that the Human Rights Council should be responsible for promoting
universal respect for the protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all,
without distinction of any kind and in a fair and equal manner,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 17/19 of 17 June 2011, 27/32 of 26
September 2014, 32/2 of 30 June 2016 and 41/18 of 12 July 2019,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007,
Recalling that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action affirms that all
human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated, that the
international community must treat human rights globally in a fair and equal manner, on the
same footing, and with the same emphasis, and that while the significance of national and
regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds must be
borne in mind, it is the duty of States, regardless of their political, economic and cultural
systems, to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Reaffirming the sovereign right of each State to develop its national laws, in
accordance with its international human rights obligations,
Recognizing that, throughout their life, persons may be subjected to violence and
multiple, intersecting and systemic forms of discrimination based on their sexual orientation
or gender identity, and the way these grounds are compounded by, inter alia, race, ethnicity,
socioeconomic status, disability or age, in private and public spaces, both online and offline,
Reaffirming the importance of non-discrimination stemming from international
human rights law and of promoting the achievement of substantive equality for persons who
face discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, including by eliminating
the root causes of structural discrimination against them,
GE.22-11083(E)