A/HRC/RES/38/18 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 July 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-eighth session 18 June–6 July 2018 Agenda item 5 Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 6 July 2018 38/18. The contribution of the Human Rights Council to the prevention of human rights violations The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and recalling the International Covenants on Human Rights and other human rights instruments, Welcoming the fact that 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually reinforcing, Recognizing that States, including all branches thereof, have the primary responsibility for the promotion and protection of all human rights, including the prevention of human rights violations, Reaffirming the contribution that the Human Rights Council makes to prevention, as set out in General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, including paragraph 5 (f), recognizing that all the elements of its mandate are interlinked and mutually reinforcing, and recalling Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007, Reaffirming also the existing procedures and mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, particularly the universal periodic review, the special procedures, the complaints procedure, the Advisory Committee and the open-ended intergovernmental working groups, whose mandates are relevant to the promotion and protection of human rights and the prevention of human rights violations, Reaffirming further General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, on the High Commissioner for the promotion and protection of all human rights, Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 33/6 of 29 September 2016, on the role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights, and other relevant resolutions of the Council, GE.18-11725(E) 