Situation of Human Rights in the Russian Federation

A/HRC/RES/60/21View PDF

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A document of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council's attention, published in 2025.

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4 versions · 2022–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/60/21	Situation of human rights in the Russian Federation	2,462	72%Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/20	Situation of human rights in the Russian Federation	1,949	66%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/54/23	Situation of human rights in the Russian Federation	1,385	52%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/25	Situation of human rights in the Russian Federation	1,041	–

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1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 3	Advisory services, technical cooperation and field activities	79

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1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 3	Advisory services, technical cooperation and field activities	79	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

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4 subjects

Civil and Political Rights Human Rights Russian Federation Special Rapporteurs

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7 operative paragraphs

Strongly urges the Russian authorities to comply with all of the State’s obligations under international human rights law;

Urges the Russian authorities to uphold the fundamental freedoms of thought, conscience, religion or belief, opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and association, and political participation, and a democratic election process, in particular by removing restrictions on diversity in ideas, criticism and dissent, as well as associated rights to liberty and security of person; to put an immediate end to the reported violations of the rights to a fair trial and freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, misuse of the judicial system, in particular the arbitrary use and instrumentalization of laws on “security of the State”, including on “treason”, or anti-terrorism and anti-extremism laws, to suppress the rights of journalists and other media workers, cultural figures, lawyers, researchers, historians, civil society and human rights defenders, and peaceful anti-war protesters, notably women and persons in vulnerable situations; and to release immediately and unconditionally all those arbitrarily detained or forcibly disappeared, and to ensure the safe return of deported individuals, especially children;

Welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation;⁸

⁸A/HRC/60/59.

Decides to extend the mandate of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation as defined by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 54/23 for a period of one year, and requests the mandate holder to hold consultations with all stakeholders, including civil society inside and outside the Russian Federation, and to present a comprehensive report to the Council at its sixty-third session and to the General Assembly at its eighty-first session;

Calls upon the Russian authorities to establish full and non-selective engagement with all United Nations human rights mechanisms, including constructive communication and full cooperation with the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, to allow the mandate holder free, full and unhindered access to visit the country and to meet freely with relevant stakeholders, including civil society and human rights defenders, as well as individuals in detention, including prisoners of war and civilians deported to the territory of the Russian Federation, and to provide the Special Rapporteur with the information necessary to properly fulfil the mandate, and also calls upon the Russian authorities to cooperate fully with all other special procedure mandate holders, the treaty bodies, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as all stakeholders in the context of the universal periodic review, and to refrain from all forms of intimidation and reprisal against persons and associations for their cooperation with these bodies;

Also calls upon the Russian authorities to adopt and publish a time-bound action plan to implement the recommendations made by international and regional human rights mechanisms, including the treaty bodies, and by the Special Rapporteur, and the recommendations accepted by the Russian Federation during the third and fourth cycles of the universal periodic review, in meaningful consultation with civil society and victims;

Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the assistance and adequate human, technical and financial resources necessary to enable the effective fulfilment of the mandate.

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