A/HRC/RES/55/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 April 2024
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 February–5 April 2024
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 4 April 2024
55/25.
Technical assistance and capacity-building for Mali in the field of
human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant
international human rights instruments,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the
Council, both of 18 June 2007,
Recalling further its resolutions 20/17 of 6 July 2012, on the situation of human rights
in Mali, 22/18 of 21 March 2013, in which it established the mandate of the Independent
Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali, 25/36 of 28 March 2014, 31/28 of 24 March
2016, 34/39 of 24 March 2017, 37/39 of 23 March 2018, 40/26 of 22 March 2019, 43/38 of
22 June 2020, 46/28 of 24 March 2021, 49/34 of 1 April 2022 and 54/42 of 4 April 2023, by
which it extended the mandate of the Independent Expert,
Reaffirming the primary responsibility of all States to promote, protect and fulfil 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 human rights instruments to which they are parties,
Reaffirming also its commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and
territorial integrity of Mali,
Taking note of the report of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights
in Mali,1
Noting the promulgation, on 22 July 2023, of the new Constitution resulting from the
referendum of 18 June 2023, and taking note of the announcement made by the Transitional
Government of Mali on 25 September 2023 that general elections, including the presidential
election originally scheduled for February 2024, would be postponed,
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