A/HRC/RES/37/39
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 April 2018
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 10
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 23 March 2018
37/39.
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, and 25/36 of 28 March 2014,
31/28 of 24 March 2016 and 34/39 of 24 March 2017, by which it extended the mandate of
the Independent Expert,
Reaffirming that all States have a responsibility 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,
Deeply concerned about the deterioration of the security situation and the increase in
attacks by terrorist groups in the north and their spread to central and southern Mali, and the
rise of violent extremism, the proliferation of small arms, drug trafficking, migrant
smuggling, the traffic in persons and other transnational organized criminal activities,
Deeply concerned also about continued human rights violations and breaches,
including abuses, the slow progress in the implementation of some relevant provisions of
the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali and the difficulties in the redeployment
of government services and the access of the population to basic social services,
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