A/HRC/49/46
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 March 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-ninth session
28 February–1 April 2022
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Conflict prevention through the protection of the human
rights of minorities
Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de
Varennes*, **
Summary
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes,
provides an overview of activities undertaken since his previous report (A/HRC/46/57). In
the thematic section of the report, he discusses conflict prevention through the protection of
the human rights of minorities. Violent conflicts have increased around the world in recent
years and most of the drivers of these conflicts involve minority grievances of exclusion,
discrimination and inequalities linked to violations of the human rights of minorities. It is
necessary to mainstream the human and minority rights framework in order to provide a more
effective early warning tool and thereby help to prevent violent conflicts, and the
international community must fill the significant gaps in conflict prevention mechanisms,
which are failing to focus on the main drivers in most contemporary conflicts.
* The present report was submitted after the deadline so as to include the most recent information.
** The annexes to the present report are circulated as received, in the language of submission only.
GE.22-03805(E)