RES/18/24 Advisory services and technical assistance for Burundi

GE.11- 16762

Human Rights Council Eighteenth session

Agenda item 10

Technical assistance and capacity-building

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*

18/24 Advisory services and technical assistance for Burundi

The Human Rights Council,

Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights treaties,

Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect human

rights and fundamental freedoms, as stated in the Charter, the Universal Declaration of

Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other applicable human

rights instruments,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006,

Bearing in mind Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/82 of 21 April 2004

and Human Rights Council resolutions 6/5 of 29 September 2007, 9/19 of 24 September

2008 and 16/34 of 25 March 2011,

1. Commends the efforts of the Government of Burundi to promote and protect

human rights;

2. Reaffirms Human Rights Council resolution 9/19, by which the Council

extended the mandate of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi

until the establishment of an independent national human rights commission;

3. Welcomes in this regard the adoption of Law 1/04 of 5 January 2011 creating

an independent national human rights commission, and the effective establishment of a

human rights institution on 23 May 2011;

4. Takes note of the holding during its seventeenth session of an interactive

dialogue on the report of the independent expert and of his presentation on the completion

of the mandate, in which he acknowledged the establishment of an independent national

* The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of

the Council on its eighteenth session (A/HRC/18/2), chap. I.

human rights commission, in accordance with the Paris Principles, satisfying therefore the

requirements of paragraph 8 of resolution 9/19;

5. Encourages the independent national human rights commission to submit a

request for accreditation to the International Coordinating Committee of National Human

Rights Institutions;

6. Strongly urges the international community to increase its technical and

financial assistance to the Government of Burundi with a view to supporting its efforts to

promote and protect human rights.

38th meeting

30 September 2011

[Adopted without a vote.]