A/HRC/25/43 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 19 February 2014 English Original: French Human Rights Council Twenty-fifth session Agenda items 2 and 10 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Technical assistance and capacity-building Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 23/18 of 13 June 2013, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit to it, at its twenty-fifth session, a report evaluating the needs for technical assistance and capacity-building in the Central African Republic. In the present report, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights identifies the priority areas in which assistance must be provided by the end of 2014, including support for national reconciliation, the development of a strategy to combat impunity, rehabilitation of the judicial and prison systems, reform of the security sector and strengthening of the national human rights protection system. In the report, the High Commissioner makes recommendations to the transitional authorities, the international community and the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) on their respective roles. * Late submission. GE.14-11122 (E) 150414 160414 *1411122*