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sharing of experiences and best practices and promoting the implementation of all human
rights;1
14.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to establish and maintain,
through additional dedicated capacity, an online repository of technical cooperation and
capacity-building activities in the implementation of universal periodic review
recommendations, with voluntary submissions made by States, as well as relevant United
Nations agencies, funds and programmes, international and regional organizations, regional
human rights mechanisms, national human rights institutions and civil society organizations,
upon the consent of the States concerned, and to update the Human Rights Council, from its
fifty-sixth session under the annual report on technical cooperation and capacity-building in
the field of human rights, on the information gathered there on a yearly basis, calling upon
those stakeholders with good practices in the above-mentioned areas to provide technical
assistance to the States concerned on the basis of their requests and consent as a form of peer
support;
15.
Recognizes that the above-mentioned repository could contribute to greater
efficiency and visibility of existing and potential technical cooperation and capacity-building
activities and existing resources from which the States concerned could benefit, and the need
to build synergies with other relevant databases, including, among others, a virtual
knowledge hub for national mechanisms for implementation, reporting and follow-up;
16.
Acknowledges the potential benefit of expanding the above-mentioned
repository to include a match-making function to enhance coordination of technical
cooperation and capacity-building efforts in the implementation of accepted universal
periodic review recommendations;
17.
Decides, in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4 of Human Rights Council
resolution 18/18 of 29 September 2011, that the theme of the annual thematic panel
discussion under agenda item 10, to be held at its fifty-sixth session, will be “Enhancing
technical cooperation and capacity-building in the implementation of universal periodic
review recommendations”;
18.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report, to be
submitted to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-sixth session, to serve as a basis for the
panel discussion, on enhancing coordination among States, the Office and other relevant
stakeholders to support States’ efforts to implement universal periodic review
recommendations through technical cooperation;
19.
Calls upon States to implement their human rights obligations, and also calls
upon States, international human rights bodies and mechanisms, relevant international
organizations, national human rights institutions, national mechanisms for implementation,
reporting and follow-up and civil society to make use of the ideas and issues raised in the
panel discussion to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and policy coherence of technical
cooperation and capacity-building efforts and to build multi-stakeholder partnerships, in the
follow-up to and implementation of universal periodic review recommendations, especially
in the light of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and the thirtieth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and in
contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
48th meeting
12 October 2023
[Adopted without a vote.]
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See A/HRC/53/63.
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