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

A/HRC/RES/52/39View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 10Technical assistance and capacity-building, published in 2023.

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 topics

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

What does this mandate say?

12 operative paragraphs

Affirms the importance of fighting effectively against the violence of the armed gangs in Haiti and their 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 promote and protect human rights and to strengthen the rule of law, including the judicial and prison systems, and the fight against gender-based violence and discrimination, corruption and impunity, by supporting the national human rights institutions and continuing to implement the recommendations made and accepted during the last Universal Periodic Review cycle and the recommendations of other United Nations bodies, in particular those related to the action of armed gangs;

Invites the Haitian authorities to continue 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, specifically by organizing free and transparent elections towards the restoration of the democratic institutions;

Urges Member States of the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, relevant United Nations agencies and other stakeholders to continue to support the measures taken and efforts made by the Government of Haiti to combat the violence of the armed gangs and the illicit sale, importation and circulation of firearms and to ensure respect for human rights in Haiti, reflecting, in particular, the repeated requests of the Haitian Government 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 capacity-building in the promotion and protection of human rights for the Haitian judiciary, security forces and prison administration, to enable it to pursue its strategy for combating the action of the armed gangs and restoring the rule of law and to promote the implementation of the recommendations made and accepted during the last universal periodic review cycle;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to appoint, without delay, for a renewable period of one year, an independent human rights expert tasked with monitoring, with the assistance of the Office of the High Commissioner and in collaboration with the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, the development of the human rights situation in Haiti, ensuring, in particular, the inclusion of a gender-based perspective and paying special attention to the situation of children and of human trafficking in all its work, and providing advice and technical assistance to the Haitian Government, national human rights institutions and civil society organizations, to assist in their efforts to ensure respect for and the promotion and protection of human rights;

Also requests the High Commissioner to provide it, within the framework of an interactive dialogue with the participation of the independent human rights expert, with an interim report on the situation of human rights in Haiti for its consideration at its fifty-fourth session and a comprehensive report on the subject for its consideration at its fifty-fifth 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 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 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 logistic support required for the creation of a country office in Haiti;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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