Assistance to Somalia in the Field of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/17/25View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building, published in 2011.

What else is in this group?

20 documents · 2008–2025

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).

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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What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Human Rights Human Rights Violations Interim Governments Somalia Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Expresses its serious concern at the human rights and humanitarian situation in Somalia;

Strongly condemns and calls for the immediate cessation of the grave and systematic human rights abuses perpetrated against the civilian population by Al Shabab and its affiliates;

Calls on Somalia to fulfil its obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law;

Urges all parties to assist in effecting unhindered humanitarian access by opening up humanitarian corridors and humanitarian spaces;

Calls on the Transitional Federal Government and encourages the African Union Mission in Somalia to provide their security forces with training in international human rights law and international humanitarian law, with the support of the international community;

Encourages the Transitional Federal Government and its subnational authorities to consider favourably the recommendations presented during the session of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, and to implement the recommendations that enjoy its support;

Decides to extend the mandate of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia for one year, from September 2011, 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 its subnational authorities to ensure respect for human rights and to strengthen the human rights regime in its work to complete the outstanding task of the transitional mandate, and requests the independent expert to report to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-first session on the situation of human rights and the implementation of technical cooperation in Somalia;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to enhance its technical assistance for the Transitional Federal Government and its subnational authorities, including through the role of the independent consultant, in responding to and implementing follow-up to the universal periodic review recommendations accepted by Somalia;

Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner 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.

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