A/RES/69/182. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Resolution Number: A/RES/69/182
• Year: 2014
• Session: 69th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/69/182

General Assembly Distr.: General

30 January 2015

Sixty-ninth session

Agenda item 68 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/488/Add.2 and Corr.1)]

69/182. 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, the relevant provisions of the

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

2

and other relevant human

rights conventions,

Reaffirming

the mandate of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights

Council on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, as set out in Council

resolution 26/12 of 26 June 2014,

3

Welcoming

the universal ratification of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August

1949,

4

which, alongside international human rights law, provide important legal

frameworks of accountability in relation to extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary

executions during armed conflict,

Recalling

all its resolutions on the subject of extrajudicial, summary or

arbitrary executions as well as the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights

and the Human Rights Council on the subject, and emphasizing the importance of

their full and effective implementation,

Recognizing

the positive role that regional human rights systems can play in

the global protection against arbitrary deprivation of life,

Noting with deep concern

that impunity continues to be a major cause of the

perpetuation of violations of human rights, including extrajudicial, summary or

arbitrary executions,

Noting

that enforced disappearances can end up in extrajudicial, summary or

arbitrary executions, recalling the importance in this regard of the International

Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance,

5

and

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1 Resolution 217 A (III).

2 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

3 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53),

chap. V, sect. A.

4 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.

5 Resolution 61/177, annex.