A/HRC/RES/40/26
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 April 2019
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Fortieth session
25 February–22 March 2019
Agenda item 10
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 22 March 2019
40/26.
Technical assistance and capacity-building for Mali in the field of
human rights
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 other relevant
international human rights instruments,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006,
Recalling also its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Human Rights
Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the
Council, both of 18 June 2007,
Recalling further its resolutions 20/17 of 6 July 2012, on the situation of human
rights in Mali, 22/18 of 21 March 2013, in which it established the mandate of the
Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali, and 25/36 of 28 March 2014,
31/28 of 24 March 2016, 34/39 of 24 March 2017 and 37/39 of 23 March 2018, by which it
extended the mandate of the Independent Expert,
Reaffirming the primary responsibility of all States to promote, protect and fulfil the
human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Charter, the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant
international human rights instruments to which they are party,
Reaffirming also its commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and
territorial integrity of Mali,
Deeply concerned about the deterioration in security conditions in Mali, especially
the expansion of terrorist activities, the rise in violent extremism, the proliferation of small
arms, drug trafficking and migrant smuggling, trafficking in persons and other forms of
transnational organized criminal activities in the central and northern regions, as well as the
intensification of intercommunal violence in the centre of Mali,
Deeply concerned also about continued human rights violations and breaches,
including abuses, and violations of international humanitarian law, the slow progress in the
implementation of some relevant provisions of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation
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