A/HRC/RES/43/10
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 June 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 19 June 2020
43/10.
Mandate of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and
other related international financial obligations of States on the full
enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and
cultural rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and other relevant international
human rights instruments,
Reaffirming all resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission on Human
Rights and the Human Rights Council on the effects of structural adjustment and economic
reform policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly
economic, social and cultural rights, the latest being Council resolution 40/8 of 21 March
2019, and all other relevant resolutions,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the
Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her
duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Stressing that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve international
cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or
humanitarian character,
Emphasizing that the World Conference on Human Rights agreed to call upon the
international community to make all efforts to help to alleviate the external debt burden of
developing countries in order to supplement the efforts of the Governments of such countries
to attain the full realization of the economic, social and cultural rights of their people,
Stressing the primacy of the means of implementation for the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, and in this regard underlining the fundamental principles of
international cooperation, which are pivotal for the practical achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals,
Stressing also the determination expressed in the 2030 Agenda to assist developing
countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at
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