A/HRC/RES/50/20
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fiftieth session
13 June–8 July 2022
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 8 July 2022
50/20.
Situation of human rights in Belarus
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the
provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on
Human Rights and other applicable human rights instruments,
Recalling all resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, the General
Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in Belarus,
including Council resolutions 47/19 of 13 July 2021 and 49/26 of 1 April 2022, and recalling
also the statements made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the
Office of the Secretary-General and the special procedures of the Human Rights Council on
the deteriorating situation of human rights in Belarus,
Regretting the inadequate response and lack of cooperation by the Belarusian
authorities to the requests made by the Human Rights Council in the above-mentioned
resolutions, including on access, and to the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur
on the situation of human rights in Belarus and other special procedure mandate holders to
the State,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007,
1.
in Belarus;1
Welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
2.
Expresses deep concern about the continuing systematic violations of human
rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus, in particular the ongoing oppressive restrictions
on the right to freedoms of peaceful assembly, association and expression, both online and
offline, resulting in the harassment, intimidation and repression of civil society and
independent media, and the continuously increasing number of arbitrary detentions and
arrests of individuals on politically motivated grounds or for exercising their human rights or
fundamental freedoms, including journalists and other media workers, human rights
defenders, including women human rights defenders, medical workers, lawyers, cultural
workers, teachers, students, persons belonging to national minorities, individuals expressing
dissenting opinions, members of trade unions and strike committees, and other members of
civil society;
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A/HRC/50/58.
GE.22-11093(E)