A/HRC/RES/27/31
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 October 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-seventh session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
27/31
Civil society space
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 Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action, the International Covenants on Human Rights and all other
relevant instruments,
Recalling the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups
and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms,
Recalling also all Human Rights Council resolutions relevant to creating and
maintaining civil society space, inter alia, resolutions 12/16 of 2 October 2009, on freedom
of opinion and expression, 21/16 of 27 September 2012, on the rights to freedom of
peaceful assembly and of association, 22/6 of 21 March 2013, on protecting human rights
defenders, 24/8 of 26 September 2013, on equal political participation, 24/21 of 27
September 2013, on civil society space: creating and maintaining, in law and in practice, a
safe and enabling environment, 24/24 of 27 September 2013, on cooperation with the
United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights, 25/38 of
28 March 2014, on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful
protests, and 26/13 of 26 June 2014, on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human
rights on the Internet,
Recognizing the important role of civil society at the local, national, regional and
international levels, and that civil society facilitates the achievement of the purposes and
principles of the United Nations,
Mindful that domestic legal and administrative provisions and their application
should facilitate, promote and protect an independent, diverse and pluralistic civil society,
and in this regard strongly rejecting all threats, attacks, reprisals and acts of intimidation
GE.14-17953 (E)