A/RES/59/197. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2004

• Resolution Number: A/RES/59/197
• Year: 2004
• Session: 59th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/59/197

General Assembly Distr.: General

10 March 2005

Fifty-ninth session

Agenda item 105 (b)

04-48808

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/503/Add.2)]

59/197. Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

1

which guarantees the

right to life, liberty and security of person, and the relevant provisions of the

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

2

Having regard

to the legal framework of the mandate of the Special

Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on extrajudicial, summary or

arbitrary executions, including the provisions contained in Commission on Human

Rights resolutions 1992/72 of 5 March 1992

3

and 2001/45 of 23 April 2001,

4

as well

as General Assembly resolution 47/136 of 18 December 1992,

Noting

its resolutions on the subject of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary

executions and the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on the subject,

Recalling

Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/50 of 25 May 1984

and the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death

penalty, annexed thereto, and Council resolution 1989/64 of 24 May 1989 on their

implementation, as well as the Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims

of Crime and Abuse of Power adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution

40/34 of 29 November 1985,

Recalling also

Economic and Social Council resolution 1989/65 of 24 May

1989, in which the Council recommended the Principles on the Effective Prevention

and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions,

Convinced

of the need for effective action to combat and to eliminate the

abhorrent practice of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, which

represent a flagrant violation of the right to life,

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1 Resolution 217 A (III).

2 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

3 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1992, Supplement No. 2 (E/1992/22), chap. II,

sect. A.

4 Ibid., 2001, Supplement No. 3 (E/2001/23), chap. II, sect. A.