A/HRC/RES/54/31*
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 October 2023
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 12 October 2023
54/31.
Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights
in the Central African Republic
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and other international
and African instruments on the protection of human rights,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006 and Human
Rights Council resolutions on technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human
rights in the Central African Republic,
Recalling further Security Council resolutions on the situation in the Central African
Republic,
Recalling the joint communiqué signed between the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the Government of the Central African
Republic on 1 June 2019, in accordance with Security Council resolution 2106 (2013) of
24 June 2013,
Reaffirming that all States have an obligation to promote and protect the human rights
and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other
international and African human rights instruments to which they are parties,
Recalling that the Central African Republic bears the primary responsibility to protect
its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity,
Recalling also the signing on 6 February 2019 of the Political Agreement for Peace
and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic, as well as the Joint Road Map for Peace
in the Central African Republic adopted on 16 September 2021 in Luanda by the International
Conference on the Great Lakes Region,
Recalling further the conclusions, in 2015, of popular consultations and of the Bangui
Forum on National Reconciliation, which was followed by the adoption of the Republican
Pact for Peace, National Reconciliation and Reconstruction and the signing of an agreement
* Reissued for technical reasons on 30 November 2023.
GE.23-19914 (E)