A/HRC/RES/44/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 July 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-fourth session
30 June–17 July 2020
Agenda item 2
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the
High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 16 July 2020
44/1.
Situation of human rights in Eritrea
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,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Human Rights
Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2, both of 18 June 2007, resolution 91 and decisions 250/2002,
275/2003 and 428/12 of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and all
previous Council resolutions on the situation of human rights in Eritrea,
Recalling also the important regional developments in recent years and the potential
they bear for the development of human rights in Eritrea,
Welcoming the commitment of the Government of Eritrea to the Sustainable
Development Goals, and its participation in the third cycle of the universal periodic review
on 28 January 20191 and in the human rights dialogue with the Committee on the Elimination
of Discrimination against Women on 14 February 2020,2
Welcoming also the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
in Eritrea3 and her conclusions,
1.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its forty-sixth session on
progress made in the cooperation between Eritrea and the Office of the High Commissioner,
and its impact on the situation of human rights in Eritrea;
2.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in Eritrea for a further period of one year, and to continue to assess and report
on the situation of human rights in follow-up to the report of the Special Rapporteur, and
requests the Special Rapporteur to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its
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A/HRC/41/14.
See CEDAW/C/ERI/CO/6.
A/HRC/44/23.
GE.20-09791(E)