A/HRC/RES/41/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 July 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 2
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 July 2019
41/1.
Situation of human rights in Eritrea
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,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Human Rights
Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2, both of 18 June 2007, resolution 91 and decisions 250/2002,
275/2003 and 428/12 of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and all
previous Council resolutions on the situation of human rights in Eritrea,
Welcoming the action taken by the Government of Eritrea to protect and promote the
economic and social rights of its people, including through the early achievement of the
Millennium Development Goals and its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals,
as well as the participation of Eritrea in the third cycle of the universal periodic review on 28
January 2019,
Welcoming also the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
in Eritrea1 and her conclusions,
1.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its forty-third session on
progress made in the cooperation between Eritrea and the Office, and on its impact on the
situation of human rights in Eritrea;
2.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in Eritrea for a further period of one year, and to continue to assess and report
on the situation of human rights in follow-up to the report of the Special Rapporteur,1 and
requests the Special Rapporteur to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its
forty-third session during an interactive dialogue, and to present during an interactive
dialogue a report on the implementation of the mandate to the Council at its forty-fourth
session and to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session;
3.
Calls upon the Government of Eritrea to cooperate fully with the Special
Rapporteur, including by granting access to the country;
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A/HRC/41/53.
GE.19-12190(E)
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