A/HRC/RES/43/2 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 29 June 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 19 June 2020 43/2. Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments, Reaffirming the primary responsibility of States to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil their obligations under the human rights treaties and agreements to which they are parties, including in the context of assemblies such as peaceful protests, and to ensure that national legislation, policies and practices, including the national framework for the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, of association and of expression, are in compliance with international human rights law, Recalling its resolution 40/2 of 21 March 2019 on the promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua, Welcoming the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua, presented to the Human Rights Council at its forty-second session,1 Bearing in mind the continuing sociopolitical and human rights crisis in Nicaragua, as documented in the report of the High Commissioner, and its adverse impact on the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, Welcoming the efforts of neighbouring and other States in the region to host Nicaraguan migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and acknowledging the associated socioeconomic consequences for those States, Noting the submission by the Government of Nicaragua of some national reports to relevant human rights treaty bodies, and in the context of the universal periodic review, Welcoming the release of persons arbitrarily deprived of their liberty in relation to the 2018 protests, while remaining concerned that more persons remain detained or are subject 1 A/HRC/42/18. GE.20-08532(E) 