A/HRC/RES/48/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 October 2021
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-eighth session
13 September–11 October 2021
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 7 October 2021
48/1.
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 the promotion and protection of human rights should be based on the
principles of cooperation and genuine dialogue and aimed at strengthening the capacity of
Member States to comply with their human rights obligations for the benefit of all human
beings,
Recognizing also 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 Afghan people are entitled to freely
determine their political status and to freely pursue their economic, social and cultural
development,
Recalling the thirty-first special session of the Human Rights Council on the serious
human rights concerns and situation in Afghanistan, and Council resolution S-31/1 adopted
thereat on 24 August 2021,
Recalling also all relevant resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Security
Council and the Human Rights Council on the situation in Afghanistan,
Recalling further the statements made by the Secretary-General, the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights
Commission, and those by several special procedures of the Human Rights Council and treaty
bodies on reports of human rights violations and abuses and violations of international
humanitarian law in Afghanistan committed by the Taliban and other parties to the conflict,
GE.21-14692(E)