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4.
Notes the efforts made by the Government of Haiti to restore security in the
country and its renewed requests for coordinated and targeted international action to support
its efforts;
5.
Calls on the Government of Haiti to step up its efforts to ensure respect for and
the promotion and protection of human rights, to strengthen the rule of law, including the
judicial and prison systems, and to combat gender-based violence and discrimination, as well
as corruption and impunity, by supporting national human rights institutions and continuing
to implement the recommendations made and accepted during the last cycle of the universal
periodic review3 and the recommendations of other United Nations bodies, in particular those
relating to armed gang activity;
6.
Invites the Haitian authorities to continue to engage in an inclusive dialogue
among all the Haitian stakeholders concerned, with the aim of finding a lasting solution to
the multidimensional crisis that Haiti is experiencing, including by organizing free and
transparent elections with a view to restoring democratic institutions;
7.
Urges the States Members of the United Nations, the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, relevant United Nations agencies and
other stakeholders, within the framework of their mandates, to step up their support for the
measures taken and efforts made by the Government of Haiti to combat armed gang violence
and the illicit sale, importation and circulation of firearms and to ensure respect for human
rights in Haiti, responding in particular to the repeated requests of the Government of Haiti
for coordinated and targeted international action, including through the provision of technical
assistance and capacity-building;
8.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to cooperate with the
Government of Haiti by providing technical assistance and support for building the human
rights promotion and protection capacities of the Haitian judiciary, security forces and prison
administration, to enable it to pursue its strategy for combating armed gang activity and
restoring the rule of law and to support the implementation of the recommendations made
and accepted during the last cycle of the universal periodic review;
9.
Decides to extend, for a renewable period of one year, the mandate of the
independent human rights expert appointed by the High Commissioner and tasked with
undertaking, with the assistance of the Office of the High Commissioner and in collaboration
with the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, the monitoring of the human rights
situation in Haiti, ensuring, in particular, the inclusion of a gender perspective in all of his
work;
10.
Requests the independent expert to devote greater attention to the situation of
children, women and girls and to trafficking in persons, to monitor the impact of illicit arms
trafficking on the human rights situation in Haiti and to formulate recommendations to
consolidate national, regional and international responses on this issue;
11.
Also requests the independent expert to provide advice and technical assistance
to the Government of Haiti, national human rights institutions and civil society organizations,
including women’s rights organizations, to assist in their efforts to ensure respect for and the
promotion and protection of human rights;
12.
Urges all States to strengthen measures to prevent, detect and disrupt illicit
arms supply chains, in line with their international obligations;
13.
Requests the High Commissioner to provide to the Council, within the
framework of an interactive dialogue with the participation of the independent human rights
expert, an oral update on the situation of human rights in Haiti at its sixtieth session and a
report on the subject at its sixty-first session;
14.
Encourages the Haitian authorities and the Office of the High Commissioner
to make progress on the issue of establishing a country office of the High Commissioner in
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See A/HRC/50/15 and A/HRC/50/15/Add.1.
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