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support to allow for the proper fulfilment of their mandates, and to ensure that civil society
organizations, human rights defenders, victims, survivors, their families and other individuals
have unhindered access to the above-mentioned bodies and mechanisms without fear of
reprisals, intimidation or attack;
24.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to provide the Special
Rapporteur with the assistance and resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the
mandate;
25.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to end
reporting on the implementation of Human Rights Council decision 2/113 of 27 November
2006 and Council resolution 14/15 of 18 June 2010, and requests the Office of the High
Commissioner to enhance its monitoring and reporting on the overall situation of human
rights in Afghanistan, and to update the Council thereon on an intersessional basis, as deemed
necessary, and to present, under agenda item 2, a comprehensive report, including an analysis
and recommendations on the institutional protection of human rights, to the Council at its
fifty-fourth session, to be followed by an interactive dialogue;
26.
Urges all relevant special procedure mandate holders and invites treaty bodies
to closely monitor and reflect on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan within the
scope of their respective mandates;
27.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
42nd meeting
7 October 2022
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 29 to 3, with 15 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Argentina, Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, Czechia, Finland, France,
Gambia, Germany, Honduras, India, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi,
Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands,
Paraguay, Poland, Republic of Korea, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America
Against:
China, Pakistan and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Abstaining:
Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Cameroon, Cuba, Eritrea, Gabon, Indonesia,
Kazakhstan, Libya, Mauritania, Nepal, Qatar, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan and
Uzbekistan]
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