A/HRC/RES/45/29
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 October 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-fifth session
14 September–7 October 2020
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 7 October 2020
45/29.
Promoting, protecting and respecting women’s and girls’ full
enjoyment of human rights in humanitarian situations
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and recalling all relevant international human
rights law and international humanitarian law instruments,
Acknowledging that international human rights law and international humanitarian
law are complementary and mutually reinforcing, and recognizing the obligation of States to
respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all persons, and that persons living in
humanitarian situations are entitled to respect for and the protection of all human rights, in
accordance with international law,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 31/6 of 23 March 2016, 35/16 of 22 June
2017, 37/20 of 23 March 2018 and 39/10 of 27 September 2018, General Assembly resolution
46/182 of 19 December 1991 and all other relevant resolutions,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 27 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, and the
Sustainable Development Goals enshrined therein, including the commitment of all States to
achieve gender equality and to provide access to justice for all,
Recalling further that States have the primary responsibility to promote and protect
human rights,
Acknowledging the ongoing integration of a gender and an age perspective in the
formulation, interpretation and implementation of human rights instruments, as well as in
reports, resolutions and/or decisions of the Human Rights Council and its various
mechanisms and of other human rights mechanisms,
GE.20-13334(E)
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