A/HRC/RES/34/13
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 April 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February–24 March 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 24 March 2017
34/13.
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling also all previous resolutions on human rights and unilateral coercive
measures adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council and the
General Assembly,
Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions 27/21 of 26 September 2014 and
30/2 of 1 October 2015, and General Assembly resolutions 69/180 of 18 December 2014
and 70/151 of 17 December 2015,
Stressing that unilateral coercive measures and legislation are contrary to
international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter and the norms and principles
governing peaceful relations among States,
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated character of
all human rights, and in this regard reaffirming the right to development as a universal and
inalienable right and an integral part of all human rights,
Expressing its grave concern at the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures
on human rights, development, international relations, trade, investment and cooperation,
Reaffirming that no State may use or encourage the use of any type of measure,
including but not limited to economic or political measures, to coerce another State in order
to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights and to secure from
it advantages of any kind,
Recognizing that unilateral coercive measures in the form of economic sanctions
have far-reaching implications for the human rights of the general population of targeted
States, disproportionately affecting the poor and the most vulnerable classes,
Alarmed by the fact that most current unilateral coercive measures have been
imposed, at great cost, in terms of the human rights of the poorest and of persons in
vulnerable situations, on developing countries by developed countries,
GE.17-05667(E)