A/HRC/RES/18/24
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 October 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Eighteenth session
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
18/24
Advisory services and technical assistance for Burundi
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights treaties,
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect human
rights and fundamental freedoms, as stated in the Charter, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other applicable human
rights instruments,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006,
Bearing in mind Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/82 of 21 April 2004
and Human Rights Council resolutions 6/5 of 29 September 2007, 9/19 of 24 September
2008 and 16/34 of 25 March 2011,
1.
Commends the efforts of the Government of Burundi to promote and protect
human rights;
2.
Reaffirms Human Rights Council resolution 9/19, by which the Council
extended the mandate of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi
until the establishment of an independent national human rights commission;
3.
Welcomes in this regard the adoption of Law 1/04 of 5 January 2011 creating
an independent national human rights commission, and the effective establishment of a
human rights institution on 23 May 2011;
4.
Takes note of the holding during its seventeenth session of an interactive
dialogue on the report of the independent expert and of his presentation on the completion
of the mandate, in which he acknowledged the establishment of an independent national
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GE.11- 16762
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its eighteenth session (A/HRC/18/2), chap. I.