Assistance to Somalia in the Field of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/12/26View PDF

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A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2009.

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20 documents · 2008–2025

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/60/28	Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights	5,321	–
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/27	Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights	4,929	–
2023	A/HRC/RES/54/32	Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights	4,201	–
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/38	Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights	3,809	–
2021	A/HRC/RES/48/22	Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights	4,329	–

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Welcomes the continued commitment and efforts made by the African Union to support Somali-led efforts towards reconciliation, peace and security in its national territory, as reaffirmed by the Peace and Security Council in the communiqué of its 190th meeting, of 22 May 2009, as well as Assembly resolution of 3 July 2009 (AU/Dec.252/XIII, para. 16), and invites other regional organizations of which Somalia is a Member State, as well as the United Nations and the international community at large to further and concretely engage in order to support the ongoing stabilization efforts;

Expresses its deep concern at the human rights and humanitarian situation in Somalia and calls for an immediate end to all abuses;

Also expresses its deep concern at the repeated attacks against journalists, civil society activists and humanitarian workers, and calls on all parties to allow unhindered access of civilians and non-combatants, in particular women and children in need to humanitarian assistance;

Further expresses its deep concern at the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian conditions, and in particular at reports of indiscriminate attacks against civilians, and other criminal activities by armed groups, such as intimidation, abduction, summary executions and forced recruitment of children, particularly in certain parts of the country;

Expresses its deep concern at the plight of internally displaced people and refugees and at the vast scale of displacement as a direct consequence of the conflict and of violations of human rights and humanitarian law;

Urges all parties to refrain from all forms of violence against the civilian population and to actively prevent abuses of human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to social groups and minorities living in Somalia;

Stresses the need to implement technical assistance and institutional capacity-building programmes inside the country, in accordance with the Transitional Federal Government at the national and regional levels, including those noted in Council resolution 10/32, in order to, inter alia, support Somali-led efforts to identify the most appropriate mechanism for the prevention of and accountability for human rights abuses;

Calls on the Transitional Federal Government to fulfil its obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law and for the implementation of the relevant provisions of the Transitional Federal Charter relating to human rights;

Welcomes the work undertaken by the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia and his report;

Decides to renew the mandate of the independent expert for a period of one year, with a view to maximizing the provision and flow of technical assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights, in order to support the efforts of the Transitional Federal Government and regional authorities to ensure the respect of human rights and strengthen the human rights regime in its work to complete the outstanding task of the transitional mandate, and requests the independent expert to submit a report on the human rights situation in Somalia and on the status of implementation of technical cooperation inside Somalia to the Council at its thirteenth and fifteenth sessions;

Invites the independent expert to devote, in the fulfilment of his mandate, specific attention to, inter alia, building the effective capacity of the rule of law, the harmonization of laws, appropriate mechanisms to address impunity and the training of Somali security personnel on international human rights standards, also paying close attention to all human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights, the right to adequate food, the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the right to education;

Requests mandate holders of relevant thematic special procedures of the Council to cooperate with the independent expert with a view to gather and update reliable information on the human rights situation in Somalia;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the independent expert with all the human, technical and financial assistance necessary to carry out his mandate;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twelfth session (A/HRC/12/50), chap. I.

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