Enhancement of Technical Cooperation and Capacity-Building in the Field of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/45/32View 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 2020.

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 2011–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/60/30

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/60/30	Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights	2,409	58%Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/32	Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights	2,944	59%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/54/28	Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights	2,731	53%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/34	Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights	2,195	33%Compare
2021	A/HRC/RES/48/24	Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights	2,670	45%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Capacity Building Covid-19 Equality Financing Human Rights Right to Education Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Emphasizes that the general debate under agenda item 10 is an essential platform for Members and observers of the Human Rights Council to share their visions and views with regard to promoting more effective technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights, and to share concrete experiences, challenges and information on assistance needed in the implementation of their human rights obligations and voluntary pledges and commitments, and of accepted universal periodic review recommendations, and their achievements and good practices in this area;

Reiterates that technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights continue to be based on consultations with and with the consent of the States concerned, and should take into account their requests, needs and priorities, and the fact that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and aim to make a concrete impact on the ground;

Underscores the need to strengthen international, regional and bilateral cooperation and dialogue in the promotion and protection of human rights, including those relating to ensuring the right to education;

Stresses the need to enhance technical cooperation and capacity-building to support the efforts of States to promote and protect human rights, including the right to education, in the context of their response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic;

Reaffirms that technical cooperation should remain an inclusive exercise that engages and involves all national stakeholders, including government agencies, national human rights institutions and civil society;

Also reaffirms the ongoing need for enhanced voluntary contributions to the relevant United Nations funds to support technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights, and encourages States to continue to make contributions to these funds;

Calls upon States to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including Sustainable Development Goal 4, in accordance with human rights law and standards, in order to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all;

Encourages States in need of assistance to consider requesting technical assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other United Nations agencies in the implementation of their human rights obligations and voluntary pledges and commitments relating to the right to education, including recommendations accepted in the context of the universal periodic review, and strongly encourages the Office of the High Commissioner and respective United Nations agencies to respond favourably to such requests and to provide information, in a transparent manner, on the technical support available for and provided to States;

Stresses the importance of enhancing coordination between the Office of the High Commissioner and other United Nations agencies in their technical cooperation and capacity-building efforts, and encourages the sharing of information on a regular basis among the Office, other relevant United Nations agencies and the States concerned on technical assistance and capacity-building efforts undertaken at the national level;

Encourages the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, in their interaction with States, to share information and knowledge relating to best practices and the possibility of extending technical assistance and capacity-building in the promotion and protection of human rights, including, where applicable and within their respective mandates, those pertaining to the right to education, Sustainable Development Goal 4 and education-related Goals, as well as approaches showing how education can contribute to the achievement of other Goals;

Welcomes the panel discussion held by the Human Rights Council at its forty-fourth session, pursuant to its resolution 42/32, on the theme “Upholding the human rights of prisoners, including women prisoners and offenders: enhancing technical cooperation and capacity-building in the implementation of the Nelson Mandela Rules and the Bangkok Rules”, at which participants discussed relevant issues, including the importance of advancing technical cooperation to further implement the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), the importance of addressing prison overcrowding, the use of non-custodial measures and alternatives to detention, and the need to protect the rights of prisoners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic;²

²See also A/HRC/44/37.

Decides, in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4 of its resolution 18/18 of 29 September 2011, that the theme of the annual thematic panel discussion under agenda item 10, to be held during its forty-seventh session, will be “Technical cooperation to advance the right to education and ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all”;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report, to be submitted to the Human Rights Council at its forty-seventh session, to serve as a basis for the panel discussion, on the activities and plans of the Office and relevant United Nations country teams and agencies and regional organizations to support States’ efforts to promote and protect the right to education, including those aimed at alleviating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the enjoyment of the right to education, ensuring the continuity of education for all, and addressing educational inequalities, with particular attention given to girls and to children in the most vulnerable and disadvantaged situations;

Calls upon States, international human rights bodies and mechanisms, relevant international organizations, national human rights institutions and civil society to share best practices and make use of the ideas and issues raised in the panel discussion to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and policy coherence of technical cooperation and capacity-building efforts and build multi-stakeholder partnerships in the promotion and protection of the right to education.

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