A/HRC/RES/42/36
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: Limited
2 October 2019
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Forty-second session
9–27 September 2019
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 27
September 2019
42/36.
Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of
human rights in the Central African Republic
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the principles and objectives of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and other relevant
international and African instruments on the protection of human rights,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006 and Human
Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007, 23/18 of 13 June 2013, 24/34 of 27
September 2013, S-20/1 of 20 January 2014, 27/28 of 26 September 2014, 30/19 of 2
October 2015, 33/27 of 30 September 2016, 36/25 of 29 September 2017 and 39/19 of 28
September 2018,
Recalling further Security Council resolutions 2088 (2013) of 24 January 2013,
2121 (2013) of 10 October 2013, 2127 (2013) of 5 December 2013, 2134 (2014) of 28
January 2014, 2149 (2014) of 10 April 2014, 2217 (2015) of 28 April 2015, 2281 (2016) of
26 April 2016, 2301 (2016) of 26 July 2016, 2339 (2017) of 27 January 2017, 2387 (2017)
of 15 November 2017, 2399 (2018) of 30 January 2018 and 2454 (2019) of 31 January
2019,
Recalling the joint communiqué signed between the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the Government of the Central
African Republic on 1 June 2019, in accordance with Security Council resolution 2106
(2013) of 24 June 2013,
Reaffirming that all States have the primary responsibility to promote and protect the
human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Charter, the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other international and
African instruments on human rights to which they are parties,
Recalling that the authorities of the Central African Republic have the primary
responsibility to protect all populations in the country from genocide, war crimes, ethnic
cleansing and crimes against humanity,
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