Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Nicaragua

A/HRC/RES/40/2View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General, published in 2019.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2019–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/58/18

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/58/18	Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua	4,900	64%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/52/2	Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua	3,927	59%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/49/3	Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua	2,993	37%Compare
2021	A/HRC/RES/46/2	Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua	1,868	39%Compare
2020	A/HRC/RES/43/2	Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua	1,292	32%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Accountability Civil and Political Rights Fact-Finding Missions Freedom of Expression Human Rights Nicaragua Public Demonstrations

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Expresses grave concern at reports of serious human rights violations and abuses, beginning in April 2018 with the disproportionate use of force by the police to repress social protests, and acts of violence by armed paramilitary groups, as well as reports of ongoing unlawful arrests and arbitrary detentions, harassment, and torture and sexual and gender-based violence in detention;

Expresses concern over the increasing restrictions on civic space and expressions of dissent in Nicaragua, including the closure of independent media outlets and the cancellation of the legal registration, and seizure of assets and goods, of a number of civil society organizations, particularly targeting human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, and over reported acts of intimidation and reprisal;

Urges the Government of Nicaragua to respect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, of association and of expression, and the independence of the media and the judiciary, and calls upon the Government to release all those arbitrarily or illegally detained, to guarantee due process rights and to ensure that conditions of detention are compliant with its human rights obligations and commitments;

Deeply regrets the decision by the Government to withdraw the invitation extended to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Nicaragua, one day after its report was published, to suspend the mission of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts and to withdraw the invitation extended to the Special Follow-up Mechanism for Nicaragua, both of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights;

Calls upon the Government to resume its cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council and the relevant treaty bodies, as well as the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, including by facilitating visits, granting unfettered access throughout the country, including to detention facilities, and preventing and refraining from all acts of intimidation or reprisal, and to positively consider the recommendations made in their reports, and offers of technical assistance;

Urges the Government and the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy to resume the national dialogue that began on 27 February 2019 and that allowed for the adoption of a road map, and calls upon all parties to ensure a wide, credible, representative, inclusive and transparent dialogue, with the support of the international community, to allow for a peaceful and democratic resolution of the crisis;

Urges the Government to guarantee a thorough and transparent accountability process with a view to ensuring access to justice and reparation for the victims of human rights violations and abuses in Nicaragua and that all perpetrators are held accountable;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a comprehensive written report on the human rights situation in Nicaragua and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its forty-second session, to be followed by an enhanced interactive dialogue, and to present an oral update on the human rights situation to the Council at its forty-first and forty-third sessions.

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