Enhancement of Technical Cooperation and Capacity-Building in the Field of Human Rights in Colombia to Implement the Recommendations of the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition

A/HRC/RES/53/22View PDF

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

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2 versions · 2023–2025

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Capacity Building Colombia Experts Human Rights Peace Agreements Technical Cooperation Truth Commissions

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Requests, for a renewable period of two years, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide and step up its technical assistance and capacity-building to national and local authorities and other relevant actors with dedicated additional resources to assist Colombia in the implementation of the recommendations made by the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition, with particular attention dedicated to victims and applying a gender perspective that takes into account ethnic origins and their different needs in the areas of investigations of human rights violations and abuses, breaches of international humanitarian law and corruption, human rights and security sector reform, the protection of social leaders and human rights defenders, and the definition and development of a public policy for a culture of peace;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present to the Human Rights Council, at its fifty-sixth and fifty-ninth sessions, a report on the subjects mentioned in the previous paragraph, to be followed by an interactive dialogue;

Also requests the High Commissioner to appoint without delay an international human rights expert tasked with identifying and verifying the obstacles to the implementation of the 2016 peace agreement, in particular those announced publicly by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in March 2023 and mentioned in the quarterly report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia presented to the Security Council on 13 April 2023, and identifying the consequences of these obstacles for the full enjoyment of human rights under international law, as well as the domestic right to peace as enshrined in the Political Constitution of Colombia, and making recommendations that would help to overcome them;

Requests the international human rights expert designated by the High Commissioner to submit a report to the Human Rights Council, before the end of 2023, and to present it to the Council at its fifty-fifth session, to be followed by an interactive dialogue;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Office of the High Commissioner with all the resources necessary to provide such technical assistance and to implement the present resolution;

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