A/HRC/RES/47/19 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 26 July 2021 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-seventh session 21 June–14 July 2021 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 13 July 2021 47/19. Situation of human rights in Belarus The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other applicable human rights instruments, Recalling all resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in Belarus, including Council resolutions 44/19 of 17 July 2020, 45/1 of 18 September 2020 and 46/20 of 24 March 2021, and recalling also the statements made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the Secretary-General and the special procedures of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating situation of human rights in Belarus, Regretting the inadequate response and lack of cooperation by the Belarusian authorities to the requests made by the Human Rights Council in the above-mentioned resolutions, including on access, and to the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus and other special procedure mandate holders to the State, Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007, 1. in Belarus;1 Welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights 2. Expresses deep concern about the unprecedented escalation in violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus, in particular the increasing disproportionate and discriminatory restrictions on freedoms of peaceful assembly, association and expression resulting in the systematic harassment, intimidation and repression of civil society and independent media, and the mass arbitrary detentions and arrests of journalists and other media workers, human rights defenders, medical workers, lawyers, cultural workers, teachers, students, persons belonging to national minorities, individuals expressing dissenting opinions, members of trade unions and strike committees, and other members of civil society, and the number of reported cases of enforced disappearances and forced expulsions; 1 A/HRC/47/49. GE.21-10263(E)