A/HRC/RES/54/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 October 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
Agenda item 2
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the
High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 October 2023
54/1.
Situation of human rights in Afghanistan
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 recalling relevant
international human rights treaties,
Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated,
interdependent and mutually reinforcing, and that all human rights must be treated in a fair
and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
Recognizing that development, peace and security and human rights are interlinked
and mutually reinforcing,
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, political independence,
territorial integrity and unity of Afghanistan, and that the people of Afghanistan are entitled
to freely determine their political status and to freely pursue their economic, social and
cultural development,
Reaffirming also that, while the significance of national and regional particularities
and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds must be borne in mind, all States,
regardless of their political, economic and cultural systems, have the duty to promote and
protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Deeply deploring the suffering of the people of Afghanistan, reaffirming its profound
solidarity with them and stressing the importance of providing them with proper support and
assistance, and stressing also the urgent and imperative need to ensure accountability by
bringing perpetrators of crimes involving violations and abuses of international human rights
law and violations of international humanitarian law to justice,
Recalling its thirty-first special session on the serious human rights concerns and
situation in Afghanistan, its resolutions S-31/1 of 24 August 2021, 48/1 of 7 October 2021,
in which the Council appointed a special rapporteur to monitor the situation of human rights
in Afghanistan, 50/14 of 8 July 2022 and 51/20 of 7 October 2022, and all relevant resolutions
adopted by the General Assembly and the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan,
on children and armed conflict, and on women and peace and security,
GE.23-19764(E)