A/HRC/RES/57/32 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 October 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session 9 September–11 October 2024 Agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 11 October 2024 57/32. Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, particularly with regard to achieving international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and recalling all relevant human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Recognizing that, in the context of technical cooperation and capacity-building, the enhancement of international cooperation is essential for the effective promotion, protection and fulfilment of human rights, which should be based on the principles of cooperation and genuine dialogue and aimed at strengthening the capacity of States to respect, protect and fulfil human rights, to prevent human rights violations and to comply with their human rights obligations for the benefit of all human beings, Bearing in mind the mandate of the Human Rights Council, as stated by the General Assembly in its resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, to promote advisory services, technical assistance and capacity-building, to be provided in consultation with and with the consent of the States concerned, and the provisions of Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007 and 16/21 of 25 March 2011 that aim to enable the Council to fulfil such a mandate, Recalling all relevant Human Rights Council resolutions on the enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights, on national human rights institutions, on the promotion of international cooperation to support national mechanisms for implementation, reporting and follow-up, and on the promotion and protection of human rights and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Recalling also Human Rights Council resolution 51/31 of 7 October 2022, in which the Council encouraged States to establish effective, independent and pluralistic national human rights institutions or, where they already exist, to strengthen them to enable the effective fulfilment of their mandate to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, as outlined in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and to do GE.24-18719 (E)