A/HRC/RES/57/36 Recognizing the need to avoid obstacles inconsistent with international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, that exacerbate pre-existing challenges and negatively affect the enjoyment of human rights and humanitarian assistance, Welcoming the extensive and continuing efforts of neighbouring and other countries, especially in the region, to host Venezuelan migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers, including through the establishment and implementation of programmes for the inclusion of Venezuelans in the host communities to promote and protect their human rights, and the humanitarian assistance provided by the United Nations, other humanitarian organizations and partner countries, including by different means of coordination such as the Quito Process, the Inter-agency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela, and the International Conferences in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants and their Host Countries and Communities, among others, affirming the need to enhance international cooperation with the host and transit countries of Venezuelan migrants, refugees and asylumseekers, and encouraging host countries to continue to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance against them, Alarmed at continued reports of worsening human rights violations and abuses and increasing restrictions of civic and democratic space, particularly in the context of the presidential elections, including arbitrary deprivations of life, large numbers of arbitrary detentions, some of which may amount to enforced disappearances, disproportionate use of force by law enforcement officials and armed individuals known as colectivos, acts of intimidation, attacks, harassment, reprisals, including through the cancellation of passports, and public defamation of opposition leaders, peaceful protesters, journalists and other media workers, lawyers, human rights defenders, persons who served in the electoral process, including as electoral observers, Indigenous Peoples and other civil society stakeholders, Deeply concerned by all human rights violations and abuses committed against persons for exercising their human rights and fundamental freedoms on the Internet, and alarmed at reports of closures of media outlets, surveillance, blocking and shutdowns of websites and digital platforms, Expressing deep concern at recent reports of the detention of children and adolescents, who have been charged with the same serious crimes as adults and have not been accompanied by their parents or guardians during the judicial proceedings, and recalling the elements set out by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in its general comment No. 24 (2019) on children’s rights in the child justice system, Deeply regretting the decision of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to suspend the in-country activities and presence of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which is inconsistent with the confidential letter of understanding between the Office of the High Commissioner and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as highlighted by the High Commissioner in his update to the Human Rights Council on 7 July 2024, Noting with appreciation the establishment of an office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the resumption of the Prosecutor’s investigation under article 18 (2) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Affirming its strong conviction that there can only be a peaceful and democratic solution to the current crisis in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and that such a solution lies with the Venezuelan people, without any sort of foreign military, security or intelligence interference, and expressing support for relevant diplomatic efforts in this regard, Taking note of the concerns expressed by the United Nations Panel of Experts in their interim report on the 2024 Venezuelan presidential elections and the irregularities they documented therein, and reiterating that a Venezuelan-led solution requires respecting the will of the Venezuelan people, through free and fair democratic elections, in accordance with international standards, the verification of electoral proceedings, the transparent publication of election results as tallied by individual polling stations and their implementation, 2