Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building to Improve Human Rights in Libya

A/HRC/RES/28/30View 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 2015.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 2015–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/60/32

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/60/32	Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya	326	74%Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/56/16	Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya	252	47%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/52/41	Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya	458	39%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/50/23	Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya	458	8%Compare
2021	A/HRC/RES/48/25	Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya	3,337	29%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Accountability Administration of Justice Capacity Building Civil and Political Rights Conferences Fact-Finding Missions Human Rights Human Rights in Armed Conflicts Human Rights Violations Internal Security International Cooperation International Humanitarian Law Libya Technical Cooperation Terrorism

What’s in this document?

27 operative paragraphs

Condemns all violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, including those involving unlawful killings, indiscriminate shelling and attacks on civilians, abductions and assassinations, including of government officials, judges, human rights activists, journalists and members of civil society organizations, shelling of hospitals, looting of property, and restrictions on freedom of expression;

Condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist acts, hostage-taking and violence committed against civilians by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh in Libya) and other terrorist organizations, their violent extremist ideology and their continued gross, systematic and widespread abuse of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, and reaffirms that terrorism, including the actions of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality or civilization;

Strongly urges the Government of Libya to investigate human rights violations and abuses and to hold those responsible to account;

Strongly urges all parties immediately to cease violations and abuses and to engage fully in the United Nations-led dialogue for peace aimed at the establishment of a Government of national unity, in order to avert further deterioration in the humanitarian crisis suffered by Libyans as a result of the conflict and to prevent the further erosion of the sovereignty and security of Libya, and urges all fighters and their leaders to declare that violations and abuses of human rights will not be tolerated and that individuals suspected of such acts will be removed from duty;

Calls for those responsible for violations or abuses of international human rights law, including sexual violence and violations and abuses against children, to be held accountable in accordance with international standards;

Calls upon the Government of Libya to increase efforts to end impunity, and takes note of its continued cooperation with the International Criminal Court to ensure that those responsible for violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, including attacks targeting civilians, are held accountable;

Recognizes the ongoing human rights challenges in Libya, strongly encourages the Government of Libya to increase its efforts to protect and promote human rights and to prevent any violations or abuses, and in this regard calls upon the international community to provide assistance for Libyan efforts to establish the rule of law, due process and access to justice, including through capacity-building in the justice system to enable effective accountability;

Urges the international community to support the Government and the Parliament of Libya to fully assume their responsibilities to promote and protect the human rights of the Libyan people;

Expresses grave concern at the rise in the number of conflict-related detainees, including children, and at reports of torture and sexual and gender-based violence in detention centres, calls upon the Government urgently to increase its efforts to establish full and effective control over all detention centres, in order to ensure that detainees, including foreign detainees, are treated in accordance with its international obligations, including, where applicable, those relating to fair trial guarantees and humane treatment in detention;

Welcomes the commitment of the Government of Libya to human rights and its continued cooperation with the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms, including the wish expressed by the Government to continue its cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and to renew its invitation for him to visit Libya, and urges the Government:

To take further steps to protect freedom of expression, ensuring that the media can operate freely and without discrimination, to review the provisions of the Penal Code and other provisions that violate freedom of expression, and to abolish all Penal Code restrictions on free speech that stipulate imprisonment and the death penalty for “insults” to officials, the judiciary and the State, for “slander” and for blasphemy;

To intensify efforts to prevent acts of torture, to investigate all allegations of torture, to hold those responsible to account and to consider providing fair and adequate compensation for victims;

To make further progress towards the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;

To promote the continued operation of the National Council for Civil Liberties and Human Rights in conformity with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (Paris Principles);

To participate openly and constructively in its upcoming universal periodic review;

To further empower women and girls, including by ensuring their full representation in politics, the police and the judiciary;

To ensure the protection of cultural rights and freedom of religion and belief, in accordance with its international obligations, and to take appropriate steps to help to prevent all attacks on and destruction of cultural and religious sites in violation of international law, particularly those on the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and to prosecute those responsible for such attacks;

To take further steps to guarantee freedom of association and assembly, including by reviewing the articles of the Penal Code that undermine freedom of association and by adopting a law for civil society organizations that is in accordance with international standards on freedom of association, that ensures the protection of human rights defenders and that only includes legal limitations that comply with the international treaty obligations of Libya;

Urges the Government of Libya, the international community, the United Nations and all parties to the conflict to facilitate the full, equal and effective participation of women in all activities relating to the prevention and resolution of the armed conflict, the maintenance of peace and security and post-conflict peacebuilding in accordance with relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 and 2122 (2013) of 18 October 2013;

Encourages the Libyan Constitutional Assembly to intensify its efforts to draft a constitution that protects the human rights of all, including women and members of all communities and vulnerable groups, and to ensure, as far as possible, the participation of all members of society, including civil society organizations, in the process of drafting the constitution;

Emphasizes the importance of a broad-based and inclusive national dialogue in order to ensure a peaceful and sustainable democratic transition;

Recognizes the efforts made by States in tracing, freezing and recovering stolen assets and the importance of effective cooperation between the international community and the Libyan authorities in this regard, taking into account the potential of the recovery of these assets in helping the Libyan authorities to improve security, development and the realization of all the human rights of all Libyans;

Takes note of the final report of the international commission of inquiry on Libya,² and encourages the Government of Libya to implement fully the recommendations contained therein;

²A/HRC/19/68.

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Office of the High Commissioner on the situation of human rights in Libya and on related technical support and capacity-building needs;³

³A/HRC/28/51.

Recognizes the security, political and economic challenges faced by the Government of Libya, which have been exacerbated by armed conflict;

Requests the High Commissioner urgently to dispatch a mission to investigate violations and abuses of international human rights law committed in Libya since the beginning of 2014, and to establish the facts and circumstances of such abuses and violations with a view to avoiding impunity and ensuring full accountability, in coordination with the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, inviting the assistance of relevant experts, particularly the National Council for Civil Liberties and Human Rights, and of special procedures mandate holders, and to submit to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-first session, under agenda item 10, a written report on its findings, which should also contain an update on technical assistance, capacity-building and cooperation with the Government of Libya, with recommendations for future capacity-building needs that include but are not limited to the justice system and accountability;

Also requests the High Commissioner to provide the Council, at its thirtieth session, with an oral update, to be followed by a stand-alone interactive dialogue, under agenda item 10, and invites the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya to participate in the interactive dialogue, which should include a focus on ensuring accountability for human rights violations and abuses in Libya.

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