A/HRC/RES/45/18
(s)
To integrate the issue of the safety of journalists and media freedom and access
to information into national development frameworks under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development;
(t)
To ensure better internal coordination and sharing of information, in particular
within and between relevant ministries, law enforcement and the judiciary at the local and
national levels;
(u)
To sign, ratify and implement more effectively the international and regional
human rights instruments relevant to the safety of journalists and media workers, and to
implement relevant resolutions adopted by United Nations bodies and regional
intergovernmental organizations and the recommendations made by treaty bodies, the special
procedures and in the context of the universal periodic review relating to the safety of
journalists;
11.
Recognizes the important contribution of the promotion and protection of the
safety of journalists in the realization of Sustainable Development Goal target 16.10;
12.
Emphasizes the important role that media organizations can play in providing
adequate safety, risk awareness, digital security and self-protection training and guidance to
journalists and media workers, in particular for journalists on dangerous assignments,
together with protective equipment and insurances, where necessary;
13.
Stresses the need to ensure better cooperation and coordination at the
international level, including through technical assistance and capacity-building, with regard
to ensuring the safety of journalists, and encourages national, subregional, regional and
international human rights mechanisms and bodies, including the relevant special procedures
of the Human Rights Council, treaty bodies and national human rights institutions, in the
framework of their mandates, to continue to address the relevant aspects of the safety of
journalists in their work;
14.
Invites United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, other international
and regional organizations, Member States and all relevant stakeholders, when applicable
and in the scope of their mandates, to cooperate further in promoting awareness of and
implementing the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of
Impunity, and to this end calls upon States to cooperate with relevant United Nations entities,
in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, relevant
special procedures of the Human Rights Council and international and regional human rights
mechanisms;
15.
Invites all relevant special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights
Council to continue and strengthen their work and cooperation relating to the issue of the
safety of journalist and impunity;
16.
Invites States to share information on a voluntary basis on the status of
investigations into attacks and violence against journalists, including in response to requests
by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization through the
mechanism operated by its International Programme for the Development of
Communication;
17.
Encourages States to continue to address the issue of the safety of journalists
through the process of the universal periodic review;
18.
Requests the High Commissioner to present to the Human Rights Council at
its forty-eighth session a report on the impact and repercussions of measures taken by
Governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the safety and work of journalists
and media workers, integrating a gender perspective, and to identify trends and collect good
practices, in particular on how the Office of the High Commissioner, within its mandate and
working with other relevant United Nations entities, can assist, when requested, in the
development of national approaches to protect journalists;
19.
Encourages States and all other relevant stakeholders to take the opportunity
of the proclamation of 2 November as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes
against Journalists to raise awareness regarding the issue of the safety of journalists and to
launch concrete initiatives in this regard;
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