A/HRC/RES/57/36
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 October 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-seventh session
9 September–11 October 2024
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 October 2024
57/36.
Situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international human
rights instruments,
Reaffirming the primary responsibility of States to promote, protect, respect and fulfil
the human rights and fundamental freedoms of their population and to fulfil their obligations
under the human rights treaties, agreements and other instruments to which they are parties,
as well as their human rights commitments,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 39/1 of 27 September 2018, 42/25 of 27
September 2019, 45/20 of 6 October 2020 and 51/29 of 3 October 2022 on the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela, as well as 42/4 of 26 September 2019 and 45/2 of 6 October 2020,
which were supported by the country concerned,
Recalling also the Partial Agreement on the Promotion of Political Rights and
Electoral Guarantees for All, signed in Barbados on 17 October 2023,
Welcoming the reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights1
and the international independent fact-finding mission on the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela,2 and other international organizations and mechanisms, and expressing grave
concern at the continued serious human rights violations and abuses in the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela that they highlight,
Expressing concern that the ongoing crisis continues to have a disproportionate
impact on the rights of women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, migrants,
refugees and asylum-seekers, Indigenous Peoples, particularly in the Arco Minero del
Orinoco region, and other persons belonging to groups in vulnerable situations,
Expressing grave concern at the protracted humanitarian crisis, which has led to more
than 7.7 million people being compelled to leave the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and
about the more than 7.6 million people within the country who remain in need of
humanitarian assistance owing to the ongoing political and economic crisis,
1
2
A/HRC/47/55, A/HRC/48/19, A/HRC/50/59, A/HRC/53/54 and A/HRC/56/63.
A/HRC/48/69, A/HRC/51/43, A/HRC/54/57 and A/HRC/57/57.
GE.24-18720 (E)