Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Nicaragua

A/HRC/RES/43/2View 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 2020.

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?

5 subjects

Administration of Justice Civil and Political Rights Human Rights Nicaragua Public Demonstrations

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

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

Expresses concern at the persisting restrictions on civic space and the repression of dissent in Nicaragua targeting civil society, human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, community and religious leaders, journalists and other media workers, students, victims and their family members, and individuals expressing critical views of the Government;

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, the prosecution authority and the judiciary by authorizing peaceful and public demonstrations, restoring the legal registration of civil society organizations and independent media outlets that were cancelled, and returning seized assets;

Calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to cease using arbitrary arrests and arbitrary detentions or alternative measures of detention as a means to repress dissent, to release all those arbitrarily or illegally detained without condition, to guarantee due process rights, to ensure that conditions of detention have due regard to the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela rules) and comply with applicable human rights obligations and standards, and to carry out prompt and impartial investigations into any allegations of extrajudicial execution, torture or ill-treatment, and take effective action against sexual and gender-based violence;

Urges the Government of Nicaragua to guarantee a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, and adequate conditions for them to carry out their work freely;

Calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to take effective measures to guarantee the independence and impartiality of the justice system and the Office of the Human Rights Advocate;

Urges the Government of Nicaragua to develop a comprehensive, inclusive and victim- and survivor-centred action plan for accountability, as recommended by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in her report, which would include, inter alia, prompt, thorough and transparent criminal investigations into all allegations of, and prosecution of, human rights violations and abuses committed since 2018; measures that ensure access to justice, truth, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence; participative and inclusive consultations to reform the judicial sector; and comprehensive reform of the security sector, including the dismantlement and disarmament of armed groups;

Calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to resume its cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms, and the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, including by granting unfettered access throughout the country and facilitating visits, and to positively consider the recommendations made in their reports and offers of technical assistance, and to strengthen its cooperation with relevant treaty bodies;

Also calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to prevent, refrain from and publicly condemn, investigate and punish any acts of intimidation or reprisal, including against those who cooperate or seek to cooperate with international and regional bodies, in particular the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights, or with the Organization of American States or the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights;

Further calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to ensure a wide, credible, representative, inclusive and transparent national dialogue with the participation of all parties, and urges the Government to implement fully the agreements reached with the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy in March 2019, and in this regard requests the international community to support those efforts;

Urges the Government of Nicaragua and relevant electoral institutions to undertake and implement legal and institutional reforms to ensure free, fair, transparent and credible elections, in accordance with international standards, that include the presence of independent national and international electoral observers;

Encourages continued and strengthened cooperation between the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua;

Requests the High Commissioner to enhance monitoring by the Office of the High Commissioner and to continue to report on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua, including by preparing a comprehensive written report that assesses progress and challenges regarding that situation, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its forty-sixth session, to be followed by an interactive dialogue, and to present an oral update on the situation of human rights to the Council at its forty-fourth and forty-fifth sessions.

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