A/HRC/RES/55/26
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 April 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 February–5 April 2024
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 4 April 2024
55/26.
Technical assistance and capacity-building for 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 Peoples’ Rights and relevant human rights treaties,
Reaffirming that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and
that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights,
Recognizing the important role and efforts of the Intergovernmental Authority on
Development in bringing parties together to work towards a peaceful resolution of the
conflict in South Sudan, supporting the inclusion of civil society, women and youth in
negotiations and securing the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the
Republic of South Sudan,
Recognizing also the important role of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and
Evaluation Commission and the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements
Monitoring and Verification Mechanism in supporting the implementation of the Revitalized
Agreement and its ceasefire provisions, noting the continued constructive engagement of the
Government of South Sudan with the United Nations, the African Union, the reconstituted
Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, the Intergovernmental Authority on
Development and other international agencies to oversee the implementation of the
Revitalized Agreement, and urging all parties and international partners to continue to engage
constructively with all the bodies created pursuant to the Revitalized Agreement,
Noting with appreciation the cooperation of the Government of South Sudan with
United Nations bodies, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights, and with other relevant international and regional human rights mechanisms,
and underscoring the importance of continuing such cooperation and further constructive
engagement,
Welcoming the recent deposit of instruments of accession by the Government of South
Sudan to core regional and international human rights treaties, inter alia, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Protocol
to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa,
GE.24-06558 (E)