A/HRC/RES/45/31 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 October 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fifth session 14 September–7 October 2020 Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 7 October 2020 45/31. The contribution of the Human Rights Council to the prevention of human rights violations The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and recalling the International Covenants on Human Rights and other human rights instruments, Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually reinforcing, Recognizing that States have the primary responsibility for the promotion and protection of all human rights, including the prevention of human rights violations, Emphasizing the fact that development, peace and security and human rights are interlinked and mutually reinforcing, Reaffirming General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which the Assembly decided that the work of the Human Rights Council would be guided by the principles of universality, impartiality, objectivity and non-selectivity, constructive international dialogue and cooperation, with a view to enhancing the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, Reaffirming also General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, on the High Commissioner for the promotion and protection of all human rights, Reaffirming further the contribution that the Human Rights Council makes to prevention, as set out in General Assembly resolution 60/251, including paragraph 5 (f), recognizing that all the elements of its mandate are interlinked and mutually reinforcing, and recalling Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007, Reaffirming that the mandate set out in paragraph 5 (f) of General Assembly resolution 60/251 comprises the two mutually reinforcing elements of contributing, through dialogue and cooperation, towards the prevention of human rights violations, and responding promptly to human rights emergencies, GE.20-13340(E) 