A/HRC/RES/34/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 April 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February–24 March 2017
Agenda item 4
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 24 March 2017
34/25.
Situation of human rights in South Sudan
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the African Charter on
Human and Peoplesʼ Rights and relevant human rights treaties,
Emphasizing that States have the primary responsibility for the promotion and
protection of human rights,
Recalling the twenty-sixth special session of the Human Rights Council, including
Council resolution S-26/1 of 14 December 2016 on the situation of human rights in South
Sudan, and Council resolution 31/20 of 23 March 2016, in which the Council established
the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, and all other previous Human Rights
Council and Security Council resolutions and President’s statements on South Sudan,
Deeply alarmed by the statements made at the twenty-sixth special session of the
Human Rights Council, including the statement of the Commission on Human Rights in
South Sudan that the conflict and violence in South Sudan could destabilize the entire
region, the statement of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of
Genocide that there is an ongoing, serious threat of renewed violence and a strong and
imminent risk of violence escalating along ethnic lines, with the potential for genocide, in
South Sudan, and the statement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights that killings, sexual violence, ill-treatment, abductions, forcible recruitment and the
looting and destruction of homes and villages are taking place on a massive scale across
many parts of the country,
Welcoming that the Government of South Sudan has committed to cooperating with
the Office of the High Commissioner, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council,
the universal periodic review and the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan in the
fulfilment of its mandate,
GE.17-05495(E)