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

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A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 10Technical assistance and capacity-building, published in 2021.

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15 versions · 2011–2025

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Capacity Building Empowerment Gender Equality Human Rights Technical Cooperation Women's Rights

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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, and concrete experiences, challenges and information on assistance needed, with regard to promoting more effective technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights, and that such technical cooperation should remain an inclusive exercise that engages and involves all national stakeholders, including government agencies, national human rights institutions, the private sector and civil society, including women’s organizations;

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 support of the promotion and protection of human rights, including those relating to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;

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;

Also reaffirms that the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, that the achievement of full human potential and of sustainable development is not possible if half of humanity continues to be denied its human rights and fundamental freedoms, that women and girls must enjoy full, equal and meaningful access to quality education, essential health-care services, economic resources and political participation, as well as equal opportunities with men and boys for employment, leadership positions and decision-making at all levels, and that the systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is crucial;

Recognizes the need to strengthen the capacity of Governments to incorporate a gender perspective into policies and decision-making, and encourages all Governments, international organizations, including the organizations of the United Nations system, and other relevant stakeholders to assist and support the efforts of developing countries in integrating a gender perspective into all aspects of policymaking and the implementation of their human rights obligations and commitments, including through the increased provision of technical assistance and financial resources;

Encourages States in need of technical assistance to consider requesting it from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant United Nations agencies, including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the United Nations Population Fund, in the implementation of their human rights obligations and voluntary pledges and commitments relating to the empowerment of all women and girls, including recommendations accepted in the context of the universal periodic review, and strongly encourages the Office of the High Commissioner and the 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 between 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 continue to share information and knowledge relating to best practices and the possibility of providing 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 empowerment of all women and girls, Sustainable Development Goal 5 and other relevant Goals, as well as approaches showing how gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls can contribute to the achievement of other Goals;

Welcomes the panel discussion held by the Human Rights Council at its forty-seventh session, pursuant to its resolution 45/32 of 7 October 2020, on the theme “Technical cooperation to advance the right to education and ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all”, at which participants discussed relevant issues, including the importance of education as a human right and an enabler for the realization of all other human rights, the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the right to education across the world, the need to bridge the digital divide between students and to invest in education as the most cost-effective way to recover from the pandemic, the use of new technologies in enhancing opportunities for quality education for all, and the importance of advancing international cooperation and technical assistance to implement the 2030 Agenda, including Sustainable Development Goal 4;

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 fiftieth session, will be “Technical cooperation on the full and effective participation of women in decision-making and in public life and on the elimination of violence, with a view to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report, to be submitted to the Human Rights Council at its fiftieth 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 take action in accordance with the theme of the panel discussion;

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 to build multi-stakeholder partnerships in the empowerment of all women and girls.

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