Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building in the Field of Human Rights in the Central African Republic

A/HRC/RES/63/32View 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 2026.

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13 versions · 2014–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/63/32	Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic	7,647	—Compare
2025	A/HRC/RES/60/34	Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic	7,174	64%Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/35	Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic	5,879	68%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/54/31	Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic	4,592	75%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/37	Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic	4,408	84%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Administration of Justice Central African Republic Experts Human Rights Human Rights Violations Humanitarian Assistance Internal Security Technical Cooperation

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72 operative paragraphs

Strongly condemns all human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, including killings, acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, conflict-related, sexual and other gender-based violence, abductions, arbitrary arrests and deprivation of liberty, extortion and looting, the recruitment and use of children, the occupation of schools and attacks on schools, the injured and the sick, medical personnel, health facilities and medical vehicles, and the denial of humanitarian assistance, the illegal destruction of property and all violations committed against civilians, in particular populations in situations of vulnerability, including women, children and displaced persons, and stresses that those responsible for such violations and abuses must be held accountable for their actions and brought to justice;

Also strongly condemns the targeted attacks launched by armed groups against civilians, humanitarian workers, health workers, humanitarian supplies and United Nations personnel, and urges armed groups to observe an immediate ceasefire in accordance with their commitment under the Peace Agreement of 6 February 2019 and the joint road map of 16 September 2021, and to make their dissolution a short-term objective;

Reiterates its call for an immediate end to all human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law committed by all parties, for strict respect for all human rights and all fundamental freedoms, for victims to have access to justice and for the re-establishment of the rule of law in the country;

Expresses deep concern at the humanitarian situation, aggravated by the conflict in the Sudan and the unrest in Chad, stresses that lack of funding, insecurity and explosive devices constitute obstacles to the complete, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance, calls upon the international community to offer greater support for humanitarian assistance efforts by supporting the humanitarian response and stabilization plan, urges the competent agencies to carry out explosive device humanitarian demining campaigns in the north-east of the country, and requests all parties to authorize and facilitate rapid, complete, safe and unhindered access for humanitarian aid and humanitarian workers to the entire national territory, including by strengthening security on the roads;

Deplores the loss of life, injuries and massive population displacement caused by the attack of 30 June 2026 in Am Dafok in the prefecture of Vakaga, expresses deep concern over the humanitarian consequences of this attack, which forced thousands of people to seek refuge near the temporary operating base of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, and over the damage caused to administrative infrastructure and essential services, and calls upon the international community, United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners to strengthen, in coordination with the authorities of the Central African Republic, their assistance to the people affected and their support for efforts to stabilize, re-establish and restore State authority in the area;

Calls upon the Government of the Central African Republic, with the support of the international community, to create the conditions for the safe, dignified and sustainable return of displaced persons and refugees who wish to return, and encourages it to put in place measures for the protection and restitution of land and other property belonging to these vulnerable populations, and policies to sustainably support the start-up of agricultural and livestock projects or commercial activities, and to organize reconciliation campaigns between the inhabitants;

Calls upon the international community to keep the Central African Republic at the centre of its concerns and to strengthen its technical and financial support for the national authorities with a view to developing and consolidating institutions and instruments for mobilizing national resources in order to gradually reduce external financial dependence, strengthen national mechanisms for transparency, accountability and good governance in public finances, and step up the fight against corruption, in particular through the effective implementation of the Act on the Prevention and Punishment of Corruption and Related Offences;

Calls upon the Government of the Central African Republic, political and religious actors and civil society stakeholders to implement, in accordance with article 20 (2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the 2019 National Plan for the Prevention of Incitement to Hatred and Violence, coordinated action under the aegis of the High Council for Communication to prevent and punish any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, including in the media and on social networks;

Welcomes the report of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic and the recommendations contained therein;

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Calls upon the authorities of the Central African Republic and the joint rapid response unit to prevent sexual violence against women and children, with the effective support of technical and financial partners, to fulfil expeditiously the commitments undertaken in 2019 with the signing of the joint communiqué between the United Nations and the Government of the Central African Republic with a view to combating sexual violence in conflict, and the relevant recommendations of the Independent Expert;

Strongly encourages the authorities of the Central African Republic to work towards the effective establishment of the National Observatory for Gender Parity, ensuring that it has the human, financial, technical and logistical resources necessary to fulfil its mandate, in particular for the collection and processing of disaggregated statistical data, both in Bangui and in its branch offices in the provinces;

Urges all parties in the Central African Republic to protect all civilians, in particular women and children, against sexual and gender-based violence;

Calls upon the authorities of the Central African Republic to provide support to the National Observatory for Gender Parity and to strengthen the organization and operations of the National Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Commission, the High Council for Communication, the High Authority for Good Governance, the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, the National Committee on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and All Forms of Discrimination, and other State institutions working for the promotion, protection and fulfilment of human rights, the fight against corruption and the promotion of democracy and good governance;

Encourages the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic to resolutely implement, in support of the authorities of the Central African Republic and as provided for in its mandate, a proactive and effective approach to the protection of civilians, and to lend the necessary assistance to the work of the Special Criminal Court and the enforcement of its decisions, the reconstitution of the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission and the continuation of the work of the criminal sessions, appeal courts and military tribunals, and places of deprivation of liberty;

Encourages the United Nations, the countries contributing troops to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic and international forces acting under the mandate of the Security Council to take the necessary measures to ensure full respect for the United Nations zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, and calls upon troop-contributing countries and international forces acting under the mandate of the Security Council to take the necessary measures to prevent such acts and to prevent impunity among their personnel in order to ensure justice for victims, including through prompt national investigations and the prosecution of soldiers alleged to have committed abuses and violations, and to duly communicate the outcomes of proceedings to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic within a reasonable period;

Deplores the fact that children continue to be used by armed groups as combatants, human shields, domestic workers and sex slaves, and the increasing number of child abductions, urges armed groups to release children from their ranks and to put an end to and prevent the recruitment and use of children and early and forced marriages, and in this regard calls upon them to honour the commitments assumed by several of them under the Peace Agreement of 6 February 2019;

Calls upon the authorities of the Central African Republic, with the support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic and the United Nations country team, to revitalize the disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation process, and requests Member States and international organizations to continue and to strengthen their financial support for the process and for initiatives to promote peace, security and reconciliation within the population and the stabilization of the country;

Encourages the technical and financial partners of the Central African Republic to support the members of the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission, which has been operational since 10 April 2025, in order to support the people of the Central African Republic in achieving peace and reconciliation in accordance with the commitments made in the Republican Pact for Peace, National Reconciliation and Reconstruction resulting from the 2015 Bangui Forum and with the commitment to set up the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission, commitments that were reiterated in the 2019 Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic;

Urges the authorities of the Central African Republic, with the support of international partners, to intensify their efforts to ensure that the elections scheduled for December are held in accordance with the principles of freedom, transparency and democracy and are inclusive and balanced, particularly in terms of gender and youth participation, and encourages donors to provide logistical, financial and security support, while calling on the Central African Republic to continue its collaboration with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic to ensure a safe environment for election preparations;

Deplores the 33% increase in grave violations committed against children, including murder, rape and maiming, with the prefectures of Haut-Mbomou, Lim-Pendé and Ouham-Fafa most affected, and notes with concern that most of these violations were perpetrated by armed groups;

Notes with satisfaction the organization on 4 and 5 June 2024 by the Government of the Central African Republic, with the support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic and the United Nations Children’s Fund, of a workshop to validate the handover protocol on the protection and transfer of children associated with armed groups, designed to ensure their direct handover to national child protection services and their partners, and notes that this protocol was adopted and signed by the Government of the Central African Republic and the United Nations system on 30 September 2024 and is now operational;

Encourages the Government of the Central African Republic to promptly adopt a national child protection plan and to consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

Also encourages the Government of the Central African Republic to support education in a safe and protective environment for all children, to end the use of schools for military purposes, including as assembly or disarmament sites, and to invest in educational and training opportunities outside Bangui, in order to prevent the recruitment and use of vulnerable children, early marriage and all forms of child exploitation;

Deplores the use of out-of-court settlements in cases of rape, including of children, in order to hinder prosecution, and calls on the Government of the Central African Republic to put an end to this recurrent practice in investigation units;

Urges the Government of the Central African Republic, through the Ministry of Justice, to reinvigorate the implementation of the national human rights policy by ensuring the effective establishment of structures to carry out and steer the policy;

Encourages the Government of the Central African Republic to implement, with the support of technical and financial partners, a national strategy for technical and agricultural training and vocational education as a social enabler for the transition process, for the benefit of youth, including under the national development plan for the period 2024–2028;

Urges all parties to protect and to regard as victims those children who have been released or otherwise separated from the armed forces and armed groups, and emphasizes the need to protect, release and reintegrate in a sustainable manner all children associated with the armed forces and armed groups and to implement rehabilitation and reintegration programmes that take into account the specific needs of girls, in particular those who have been victims of violence;

Remains deeply concerned at the persistence of conflict-related sexual violence in the country, which is particularly prevalent in the Mbomou and Ouham-Pendé prefectures and is perpetrated mainly by members of the Coalition des patriotes pour le changement, including the group Retour, réclamation et réhabilitation and Unité pour la paix en Centrafrique, as well as Azande Ani Kpi Gbe, mentioned in the annual report of the Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence, and also expresses concern at reported and confirmed cases of sexual violence attributed to the national defence forces, in particular the group Wagner Ti Azande, which is integrated into those forces and consists of former Azande Ani Kpi Gbe combatants, and is implicated in numerous violations, including rape and gang rape targeting Muslim communities in particular over their alleged affiliation with Unité pour la paix en Centrafrique;

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Encourages the national authorities, the Special Criminal Court, the courts of appeal and their criminal sessions, the military courts and the joint rapid response unit to prevent sexual violence against women and children to systematically monitor cases of sexual violence, to ensure that prosecutions are conducted and that criminal penalties are applied, and to protect and support victims, recalls in this respect the mandate of the joint unit, and calls on the authorities of the Central African Republic to provide it with the appropriate resources and means necessary for its independence and operation and to ensure, through the relevant services, the provision of psychotherapeutic and socioeconomic support to victims;

Takes note of the decisions handed down by the Special Criminal Court in the cases known as Ndélé 1 (phases 1 and 2) and Ndélé 2, relating to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the clashes of March and April 2020 in Ndélé (in the Bamingui-Bangoran prefecture) and surrounding villages, stresses that, in the first phase of the Ndélé 1 case (Special Prosecutor v. Kalite Azor et al.), four defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 20 years, while in the second phase (Special Prosecutor v. General Fache et al.), tried in absentia, six defendants were found guilty as co-perpetrators of crimes against humanity and war crimes, also takes note of the judgment in the Ndélé 2 case (Special Prosecutor v. Oumar Serge Abdoulaye Assan et al.), which resulted in the sentencing of six members of the Front populaire pour la renaissance de la Centrafrique to prison terms ranging from 18 to 25 years, and stresses that these decisions mark a significant step forward in the fight against impunity and in strengthening the rule of law in the Central African Republic;

Calls upon the authorities of the Central African Republic, neighbouring States, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic and the international community to provide the necessary support to the Special Criminal Court for the conduct of its investigations and proceedings, access to relevant documents and the execution of its decisions and arrest warrants, and takes note, in this regard, of the opening, on 16 June 2026, of the trial in the “Bossembele” case, in which the Special Prosecutor’s Office and the civil parties are pitted against François Bozizé Yangouvonda and three co-defendants, who are charged with crimes against humanity said to have been committed between 2009 and 2013;

Urges States neighbouring the Central African Republic to cooperate in combating insecurity and the impunity of members of armed groups, including through cooperation with national and international courts and the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission, and to work together on border management, the circulation of arms, refugees and transhumance;

Welcomes the decisions handed down by the Special Criminal Court and the efforts of the authorities of the Central African Republic to expedite proceedings in respect of serious violations of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, and encourages the Government of the Central African Republic, with support from the international community, to continue its cooperation with the Special Prosecutor of the Court so that those responsible for international crimes, regardless of their status or affiliation, are identified, arrested and brought to justice without delay;

Also welcomes the ongoing efforts of the Special Criminal Court and national courts in the fight against impunity, while expressing concern at the obstacles that continue to hinder access to justice;

Notes with concern the difficulties encountered by the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission and stresses the central importance of its role in the fight against impunity and in the process of national reconciliation, and therefore calls on States and on actors and institutions with expertise in transitional justice to provide the technical and financial assistance necessary for the effective implementation of the Commission’s action plans;

Deplores the persistent impunity enjoyed by certain members of the security forces, bilateral forces and armed groups responsible for human rights violations;

Congratulates the Central African Republic for having ratified, on 16 August 2025, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, and encourages it to submit its initial report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights as soon as possible, as well as its overdue periodic reports to the other monitoring mechanisms of the African human rights instruments to which it is a Party;

Takes note of the conviction handed down on 24 July 2025 by the International Criminal Court against Alfred Yekatom, former area commander, and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, national general coordinator of the anti-balaka armed group, both of whom were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in connection with the widespread attack launched by their armed group against civilian populations between December 2013 and December 2014 and were sentenced to 15 and 12 years’ imprisonment, respectively;

Calls upon the authorities of the Central African Republic to strengthen the financial and human resources allocated for the purpose of restoring, extending and consolidating the effective authority of the State over the entire country by strengthening the redeployment of government services, particularly in the areas of basic social services, criminal justice and prison administration, in the provinces with a view to combating impunity and ensuring stable, responsible, inclusive and transparent governance at the national and local levels;

Urges the authorities of the Central African Republic to implement the national strategy for the protection of victims and witnesses participating in judicial proceedings and to establish appropriate programmes to provide victims of violations and members of their families with material and symbolic reparations, at both the individual and collective levels, and encourages the establishment of a reparation and compensation fund for victims, to support and complement the work of the Special Criminal Court, the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission and national courts in the fight against impunity;

Encourages the authorities of the Central African Republic to pursue and intensify their efforts to rehabilitate and build administrative, judicial, prison, health, educational, cultural, sports and road infrastructure works, which are seen as key enablers for restoring, extending and consolidating State authority throughout the country and as instruments for reviving agropastoral activities, boosting interregional trade and promoting economic development, particularly within the framework of the national development plan for the period 2024–2028;

Also encourages the authorities of the Central African Republic to fully implement security sector reform in order to establish multi-ethnic, professional, representative, well-trained and well-equipped national defence and internal security forces, with an effective command and accountability mechanism for the forces deployed, and recalls that these forces must respect the principles of accountability and the rule of law in order to win and retain the trust of local communities, including by ensuring that candidates for recruitment are subject to appropriate vetting and background checks, particularly with regard to respect for human rights;

Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of arms and related materiel of all types to armed groups and associated individuals operating in the Central African Republic;

Calls upon the African Union, the Economic Community of Central African States and the United Nations to consider, in the short term, the holding of a subregional conference on security and development, with a focus on cross-border issues, including transhumance, the circulation of arms, the safe and voluntary return of refugees to their countries of origin, the securing and management of common borders and the implementation of development projects of common interest, particularly in the field of infrastructure;

Invites the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic to continue to exercise due diligence in the field of human rights, so as to ensure that the conduct of the national security forces and of military and other security personnel is monitored and that their members are held accountable for their actions, and to continue to publish reports on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic in order to enable the international community to monitor the situation;

Urges the United Nations country team to continue and to strengthen its cooperation with the authorities of the Central African Republic with a view to building the capacity of national institutions with governance and human rights as part of their mandate, and encourages it in particular to provide the National Observatory for Gender Parity with the technical and institutional assistance it needs to discharge its mandate in full, including with regard to the collection and analysis of disaggregated statistical data, the building of its operational capacities and the deployment of its field offices in the provinces;

Urges the authorities of the Central African Republic to initiate without delay an institutional restructuring of the National Electoral Authority to ensure the structural and operational conditions necessary for the holding, within the constitutional time frame, of free, inclusive and transparent elections, giving equal importance to the presidential, legislative and local elections and ensuring the full, equal and effective participation of women and young people;

Stresses the need to start building and rehabilitating social infrastructure in order to ensure effective access to healthcare, the proper functioning of schools and vocational training centres whose facilities have been destroyed or damaged by armed groups and security personnel during the conflict, access to sanitation and drinking water in places where storage, treatment and distribution facilities have deteriorated as a result of the conflict, the resumption of agropastoral activities disrupted by insecurity and explosive devices, the registration of births and other civil status events, the issuance of identity documents and the provision of local justice services in the context of the inadequate restoration of State authority, and requests the partners of the Central African Republic to help the country to meet these challenges;

Requests States Members of the United Nations and international and regional organizations to provide urgent support to local populations in response to the food insecurity affecting almost half of the population, by supporting humanitarian assistance and stabilization efforts while expanding the role of the Economic Community of Central African States in peace efforts and cross-border issues, in particular transhumance, the circulation of arms and refugees;

Urges the authorities of the Central African Republic to take great precautions to prevent the dysfunction that affected the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission, which had been dissolved, from recurring with the new Commission, and to provide it with all the necessary resources to enable it to carry out its mandate effectively, particularly with regard to the fight against impunity and the promotion of reparation and guarantees of non-repetition, to complement the work of the Special Criminal Court and the ordinary courts, including with regard to the duration of its mandate initially provided for in the law of 7 April 2020;

Also urges the authorities of the Central African Republic, with the support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, other international partners and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to continue in an inclusive manner to strengthen the effective implementation of the transitional justice mechanisms;

Stresses the need to involve all sectors of civil society in the Central African Republic and to promote the full and effective participation of victims, women and young people in the dialogue between the authorities of the Central African Republic and the armed groups within the framework of the African Initiative for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic and its road map, which is the main framework for a political solution in the Central African Republic, and the need to coordinate the peace process with transitional justice in order to facilitate national reconciliation;

Welcomes the efforts made by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic to involve the parliament in the national human rights programme, which resulted in the establishment in 2023 of a network of parliamentarians of the Central African Republic for human rights, now involved in human rights initiatives and consultations of the Government, the national human rights institution and civil society, stresses the importance of a greater presence of elected representatives and their involvement in human rights issues, and calls upon donors, including those involved in promoting parliamentary initiatives, such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union, to give greater support to this involvement of elected representatives;

Urges the authorities of the Central African Republic to make it a priority to implement the recommendations of the republican dialogue;

Remains concerned about the surge in the number of children recruited by armed groups and self-defence militias, calls for the establishment and implementation of socioeconomic reintegration and psychological support programmes for minors who are victims of the six grave violations against children in armed conflict, encourages greater advocacy to improve the protection of children in armed conflict, including by taking account of the specific needs of girls, and calls upon armed groups to end such grave violations and abuses and upon the authorities of the Central African Republic to enforce the Child Protection Code;

Remains deeply concerned about the conditions in which displaced persons and refugees are living and encourages the international community to support the national authorities and host countries in offering appropriate protection and assistance to victims of violence, in particular women, children and persons with disabilities;

Expresses its concern about the conditions of detention of persons deprived of liberty and the implementation of procedures relating to deprivation of liberty, and urges the Government of the Central African Republic to adopt a sustainable approach consisting of better equipping its places of detention, increasing the professionalism of its personnel, including judicial and prison personnel, and committing itself to respond in a comprehensive manner to the recommendations and observations of the various international and national mechanisms, particularly in the reports published to this effect, including by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic;

Calls upon the national authorities to protect and promote the right to freedom of movement for all, including internally displaced persons and refugees, without distinction, and to respect their right to choose their place of residence, to return home or to seek protection elsewhere;

Encourages States Members of the United Nations, within the framework of international cooperation, the relevant United Nations agencies, international financial institutions and other international organizations concerned, and also donors, to provide the Central African Republic with technical assistance and capacity-building in order to assist it in promoting respect for human rights and undertaking reform of the justice and security sectors, and to stand ready to respond to the urgent needs and priorities identified by the Central African Republic;

Also encourages the effective implementation of the national development plan for the period 2024–2028 and the national human rights policy and its action plan for the period 2023–2027, drawn up by the authorities of the Central African Republic with the technical and financial support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic and the United Nations country team, and the implementation of the recommendations of the supervisory mechanisms, to ensure that the Central African Republic is in compliance with its obligations under the international human rights instruments it has ratified and with international humanitarian law;

Decides to renew, for one year, the mandate of Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic, which is to assess, monitor and report on the human rights situation in the Central African Republic, in close consultation with the authorities of the Central African Republic, with a view to making recommendations regarding technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights, taking into account the progress that has been made, the persistent challenges and the priorities identified by the authorities of the Central African Republic;

Welcomes the participation of the Central African Republic in the fourth cycle of the universal periodic review on 26 January 2024, its openness, reflected by the acceptance of 238 of the 244 recommendations issued within this framework, and the efforts made by the Government, with the support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, in designing and drafting an inclusive action plan, drawn up in consultation with civil society, national institutions, the parliament and key ministries, to implement the universal periodic review recommendations;

Notes the call by the Government of the Central African Republic for increased technical assistance and capacity-building efforts to support the priorities of the Government in implementing the recommendations accepted as part of the fourth cycle of the universal periodic review and its national human rights policy for the period 2023–2027;

Requests the Independent Expert to pay particular attention to human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law alleged to have been committed by all parties to the conflict;

Requests all parties to cooperate fully with the Independent Expert in the discharge of his mandate;

Decides to hold, at its sixty-fourth session, a high-level dialogue to assess developments in the human rights situation on the ground, with particular emphasis on improving the coordination of technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights, in accordance with the needs and priorities identified in consultation with the authorities of the Central African Republic;

Requests the Independent Expert to work closely with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic and United Nations bodies, particularly in the area of transitional justice;

Also requests the Independent Expert to work closely with all United Nations bodies, the African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States and with other relevant international organizations, civil society in the Central African Republic and all relevant human rights mechanisms with a view, in particular, to promoting complementarity among technical assistance and capacity-building initiatives and avoiding duplication of efforts;

Further requests the Independent Expert to work closely with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, as well as with the relevant entities of the United Nations country team in their respective areas of expertise;

Requests the Independent Expert to submit a written report to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-sixth session and to the General Assembly at its eighty-second session, focusing in particular on developments in the human rights situation in the Central African Republic, the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain, and containing concrete recommendations regarding the country’s priority needs for technical assistance and capacity-building;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide the Independent Expert with all the necessary technical, human and financial resources to enable him to discharge his mandate in full, including the organization of capacity-building programmes for national institutions with a mandate to protect human rights, combat impunity and corruption and strengthen democratic governance in the country;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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