Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building to Improve the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti, in Connection with a Request From the Authorities of Haiti for Coordinated and Targeted International Action

A/HRC/RES/55/24View 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 2024.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2024–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/61/38

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/61/38	Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve the situation of human rights in Haiti, in connection with a request from the authorities of Haiti for coordinated and targeted international action	1,620	87%Compare
2025	A/HRC/RES/58/32	Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve the situation of human rights in Haiti, in connection with a request from the authorities of Haiti for coordinated and targeted international action	1,619	85%Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/55/24	Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve the situation of human rights in Haiti, in connection with a request from the authorities of Haiti for coordinated and targeted international action	1,433	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Capacity Building Experts Gangs Haiti Human Rights Internal Security Rule of Law Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the reports prepared by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with the participation of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti;³

³A/HRC/54/79 and A/HRC/55/76.

Affirms the importance of effectively combating armed gang violence in Haiti and its adverse impact on the realization and enjoyment of human rights by the people of Haiti;

Also affirms the need for security to be restored in order to ensure the effectiveness of the humanitarian response, the organization of democratic elections and the restoration of democratic institutions in Haiti;

Notes the efforts made by the Government of Haiti to restore security in the country and its renewed requests for coordinated and targeted international action to support its efforts;

Calls on the Government of Haiti to step up its efforts to ensure respect for and the promotion and protection of human rights, to strengthen the rule of law, including the judicial and prison systems, and to combat gender-based violence and discrimination, as well as corruption and impunity, by supporting national human rights institutions and continuing to implement the recommendations made and accepted during the last cycle of the universal periodic review⁴ and the recommendations of other United Nations bodies, in particular those relating to armed gang activity;

⁴See A/HRC/50/15 and A/HRC/50/15/Add.1.

Invites the Haitian authorities to continue to engage in an inclusive dialogue among all the Haitian stakeholders concerned, with the aim of finding a lasting solution to the multidimensional crisis that Haiti is experiencing, including by organizing free and transparent elections with a view to restoring democratic institutions;

Urges the States Members of the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, relevant United Nations agencies and other stakeholders, within the framework of their mandates, to continue to support the measures taken and efforts made by the Government of Haiti to combat armed gang violence and the illicit sale, importation and circulation of firearms and to ensure respect for human rights in Haiti, responding in particular to the repeated requests of the Government of Haiti for coordinated and targeted international action, including through the provision of technical assistance and capacity-building;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to cooperate with the Government of Haiti by providing technical assistance and support for building the human rights promotion and protection capacities of the Haitian judiciary, security forces and prison administration, to enable it to pursue its strategy for combating armed gang activity and restoring the rule of law and to support the implementation of the recommendations made and accepted during the last cycle of the universal periodic review;

Decides to extend, for a renewable period of one year, the mandate of the independent human rights expert appointed by the High Commissioner and tasked with undertaking, with the assistance of the Office of the High Commissioner and in collaboration with the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, the monitoring of the human rights situation in Haiti, ensuring, in particular, the inclusion of a gender perspective and of a special focus on the situation of children and of human trafficking in all of his work, and the provision of advice and technical assistance to the Government of Haiti, national human rights institutions and civil society organizations, including women’s rights organizations, to assist in their efforts to ensure respect for and the promotion and protection of human rights;

Requests the High Commissioner to provide to the Council, within the framework of an interactive dialogue with the participation of the independent human rights expert, an interim report on the situation of human rights in Haiti at its fifty-seventh session and a full report on the subject at its fifty-eighth session;

Encourages the Haitian authorities and the Office of the High Commissioner to make progress on the issue of establishing a country office of the High Commissioner in Haiti, as suggested by the Government of Haiti during the High Commissioner’s visit to Haiti from 8 to 10 February 2023;

Requests the Secretary-General to make available to the Office of the High Commissioner the financial, technical and logistical support required for the establishment of an office of the High Commissioner in Haiti;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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