A/HRC/RES/47/2 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 26 July 2021 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-seventh session 21 June–14 July 2021 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 12 July 2021 47/2. Situation of human rights in Eritrea The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments, Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2, both of 18 June 2007, resolution 91 and decisions 250/2002, 275/2003 and 428/12 of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and all previous Council resolutions on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Noting the regional developments in recent months and their implications, including for human rights in Eritrea, Welcoming the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea1 and his conclusions therein, Expressing deep concern at the ongoing human rights violations and abuses, as outlined by the Special Rapporteur in his report, 1. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its forty-ninth session on progress made in the cooperation between Eritrea and the Office of the High Commissioner, and its impact on the situation of human rights in Eritrea; 2. Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea for a further period of one year, and to continue to assess and report on the situation of human rights in follow-up to the report of the Special Rapporteur, and requests the Special Rapporteur to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its forty-ninth session during an interactive dialogue, and to present during an interactive dialogue a report on the implementation of the mandate to the Council at its fiftieth session and to the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session; 1 A/HRC/47/21. GE.21-10293(E)