A/HRC/RES/43/38
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 July 2020
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 22 June
2020
43/38.
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 its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Human Rights
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 and 40/26 of 22
March 2019, 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 party,
Reaffirming also its commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and
territorial integrity of Mali,
Taking note with satisfaction of the report of the Independent Expert on the situation
of human rights in Mali,1
Deeply concerned about the ongoing deterioration of the security situation in Mali,
mainly in the north and centre of the country, in particular the expansion of terrorist
activities, the intensification of violent extremism and communal violence, the proliferation
of small arms, the smuggling of drugs and migrants, trafficking in persons and other forms
of transnational organized crime,
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