A/HRC/RES/58/3
Expressing concern that unilateral coercive measures have prevented humanitarian
organizations from making financial transfers to States where they work,
Concerned that unilateral coercive measures impede the provision of humanitarian
assistance to populations in countries affected by natural and other disasters,
Underlining that, in each situation worldwide, unilateral coercive measures have a
direct or indirect negative impact on human rights,
Underlining also the necessity of examining the wide-ranging impact of unilateral
coercive measures on international humanitarian and human rights law and on the economy,
peace, security and social fabric of States, as well as on global trade relations,
Highlighting the need for the Human Rights Council to take fully into account the
negative impact of unilateral coercive measures, including that caused by the enactment and
extraterritorial application of national laws and decisions that are not in conformity with the
Charter and international law, in its task concerning the implementation of all human rights,
including the right to development,
Recalling the recommendations set forth in the research-based progress report of the
Human Rights Council Advisory Committee containing recommendations on mechanisms to
assess the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights
and to promote accountability,2
Highlighting the need to monitor, assess and report on human rights violations
associated with unilateral coercive measures, to prevent and minimize the adverse impact of
unilateral coercive measures on human rights, to promote accountability to deter future
violations and to provide redress for victims,
Noting with appreciation the launch by the Special Rapporteur of the impact
assessment and monitoring tool to assess, document, report on and follow up on the negative
impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights,
Welcoming the continuing efforts of the open-ended Working Group on the Right to
Development, and reaffirming that unilateral coercive measures are one of the obstacles to
the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development,
Recognizing that access to justice is a precondition to exercising all human rights and
an important safeguard that ensures fundamental fairness, equality and integrity, also in the
face of unilateral coercive measures and overcompliance,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 on institution-building of the
Council and 5/2 on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedure Mandate Holders of the
Human Rights Council, both of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall
discharge his or her duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Recalling also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, according to which, inter
alia, in no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence and its fundamental
rights,
1.
Urges all States to stop adopting, maintaining, implementing or complying
with unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law, international
humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations and the norms and principles governing
peaceful relations among States, in particular those of a coercive nature with extraterritorial
effects, which create obstacles to trade relations among States, thus impeding the full
realization of the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other
international human rights instruments, in particular the right of individuals and peoples to
development;
2.
Calls upon States and relevant United Nations agencies to take concrete
measures to mitigate the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on humanitarian
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A/HRC/28/74.