A/HRC/RES/44/2 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 21 July 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fourth session 30 June–17 July 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 16 July 2020 44/2. The central role of the State in responding to pandemics and other health emergencies, and the socioeconomic consequences thereof in advancing sustainable development and the realization of all human rights The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction of any kind, Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, Recalling all relevant international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 74/270 of 2 April 2020, on global solidarity to fight the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and 74/274 of 20 April 2020, on international cooperation to ensure global access to medicines, vaccines and medical equipment to face COVID-19, and President’s statement PRST 43/1 of 29 May 2020 on the human rights implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, Expressing its solidarity to all countries affected by the pandemic, as well as its condolences and sympathy to all families of the victims of COVID-19, Reaffirming that each State should take steps, individually and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its available resources with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the rights recognized in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by all appropriate means, including in particular the adoption of legislative measures, Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which affirms that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and that the GE.20-09793(E) 