A/HRC/RES/52/2 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 6 April 2023 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-second session 27 February–4 April 2023 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 3 April 2023 52/2. Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments, Reaffirming the primary responsibility of States to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil their obligations under the human rights treaties to which they are party and other human rights agreements to which they have subscribed, Reaffirming also the importance of the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, of which Nicaragua is a State party, as a means of preventing and reducing statelessness and ensuring the protection of stateless persons, Recalling its resolutions 40/2 of 21 March 2019, 43/2 of 19 June 2020, 46/2 of 23 March 2021 and 49/3 of 31 March 2022 on the promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua, Recalling also 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, Welcoming the oral updates of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua, presented to the Human Rights Council at its fiftieth and fifty-second sessions, the comprehensive report on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua presented to the Council at its fifty-first session,1 the interim oral update of the High Commissioner on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua presented to the Council on 15 December 2022, and the report of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua presented to the Council at its fifty-second session,2 and expressing profound alarm that the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua found reasonable grounds to believe that the following crimes against humanity have been committed in Nicaragua since 1 2 A/HRC/51/42. A/HRC/52/63. GE.23-06430(E)