A/HRC/RES/33/27
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 October 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-third session
Agenda item 10
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 30 September 2016
33/27.
Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of
human rights in the Central African Republic
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the principles and objectives of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and other relevant
international and African instruments on human rights,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006 and Human
Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007, 23/18 of 13 June 2013, 24/34 of 27
September 2013, S-20/1 of 20 January 2014, 27/28 of 26 September 2014 and 30/19 of 2
October 2015,
Recalling further Security Council resolutions 2088 (2013) of 24 January 2013,
2121 (2013) of 10 October 2013, 2127 (2013) of 5 December 2013, 2134 (2014) of 28
January 2014, 2149 (2014) April 10, 2014, 2217 (2015) of 28 April 2015, 2281 (2016) of
26 April 2016 and 2301 (2016) of 26 July 2016,
Reaffirming that all States have the primary responsibility to promote and protect the
human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Charter, the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant
international and African instruments on human rights to which they are parties,
Recalling that the Central African Republic authorities have the primary
responsibility to protect all populations in the country from genocide, war crimes, ethnic
cleansing and crimes against humanity,
Welcoming the holding of popular consultations and the Bangui Forum on National
Reconciliation, which was followed by the adoption of the Republican Pact for Peace,
National Reconciliation and Reconstruction and an agreement on disarmament,
demobilization and reintegration signed by the representatives of the main actors in the
conflict in the Central African Republic,
GE.16-17469(E)