A/HRC/RES/57/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 October 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-seventh session
9 September–11 October 2024
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 9 October 2024
57/1.
Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international human rights treaties,
Recalling previous Human Rights Council resolutions on promoting reconciliation,
accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka, the most recent of which being resolution 51/1
of 6 October 2022,
1.
Welcomes the report of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Sri Lanka,1 presented to the Human Rights
Council at its present session;
2.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner and all
work requested of it by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 51/1, and requests the
Office to present an oral update to the Council at its fifty-eighth session and a comprehensive
report on progress in reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka at its
sixtieth session, to be discussed in an interactive dialogue.
46th meeting
9 October 2024
[Adopted without a vote.]
1
A/HRC/57/19.
GE.24-18458 (E)