The Role of Prevention in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/18/13View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2010–2019

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/42/6

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2019	A/HRC/RES/42/6	The role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights	1,199	60%Compare
2016	A/HRC/RES/33/6	The role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights	1,130	75%Compare
2013	A/HRC/RES/24/16	The role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights	1,044	58%Compare
2011	A/HRC/RES/18/13	The role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights	685	46%Compare
2010	A/HRC/RES/14/5	The role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights	454	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Human Rights Advancement Human Rights Monitoring State Responsibility

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

Affirms the importance of effective preventive measures as a part of overall strategies for the promotion and protection of all human rights;

Recognizes that States have the primary responsibility for the promotion and protection of all human rights, including the prevention of human rights violations, and that this responsibility involves all branches of the State;

Stresses that States should promote supportive and enabling environments for the prevention of human rights violations, including, inter alia, by:

Considering ratifying international human rights conventions and covenants;

Fully implementing international human rights conventions and covenants to which they are party;

Developing good governance, democratic systems, the rule of law and accountability;

Adopting policies to ensure the enjoyment of all human rights;

Addressing all forms of discrimination, as well as factors, inter alia, inequality and poverty, that may lead to situations in which human rights violations are committed;

Promoting a free and active civil society;

Promoting freedom of expression;

Ensuring, where they exist, strong and independent national human rights institutions, in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles);

Promoting human rights education and training, in particular for State actors;

Ensuring an independent and functioning judiciary;

Fighting corruption;

Welcomes the role of national human rights institutions in contributing to the prevention of human rights violations, and encourages States to strengthen the mandate and capacity of such institutions, where they exist, to enable them to fulfil this role effectively in accordance with the Paris Principles;

Acknowledges that the Human Rights Council shall, inter alia, contribute, through dialogue and cooperation, to the prevention of human rights violations and respond promptly to human rights emergencies;

Welcomes the submission of the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Workshop on the Role of Prevention in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,³ and takes note of the conclusions and recommendations therein;

³A/HRC/18/24.

Stresses the need to further develop and raise awareness of the concept of prevention of human rights violations in order to encourage its reflection in relevant policies and strategies at the national, regional and international levels;

Recognizes the need for further research to assist States, at their request, and other stakeholders to understand and mainstream the role of prevention into the promotion and protection of human rights;

Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare, in close cooperation with the mandate holders of the Human Rights Council, within existing resources, a practical toolkit to support States and other stakeholders in understanding the role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights, and to present the toolkit to the Council at its twenty-second session;

Decides to continue consideration of the matter under the same agenda item, in conformity with its annual programme of work.

The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its eighteenth session (A/HRC/18/2), chap. I.

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