A/HRC/RES/51/23
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 October 2022
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-first session
12 September–7 October 2022
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 2022
51/23.
Human rights and transitional justice
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the
Additional Protocols thereto of 8 June 1977, other relevant international human rights law
and international humanitarian law instruments and the Vienna Declaration and Programme
of Action,
Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2005/70 of 20 April 2005, on
human rights and transitional justice, 2005/81 of 21 April 2005, on impunity, and 2005/66 of
20 April 2005, on the right to the truth, Human Rights Council resolutions 9/10 of 24
September 2008, 12/11 of 1 October 2009, 21/15 of 27 September 2012, 33/19 of 30
September 2016 and 42/17 of 26 September 2019, on human rights and transitional justice,
9/11 of 18 September 2008, 12/12 of 1 October 2009 and 21/7 of 27 September 2012, on the
right to the truth, 10/26 of 27 March 2009 and 15/5 of 29 September 2010, on forensic
genetics and human rights, Council decisions 2/105 of 27 November 2006, on the right to the
truth, and 4/102 of 23 March 2007, on transitional justice, General Assembly resolution
68/165 of 18 December 2013, on the right to the truth, as well as Council resolutions 18/7 of
29 September 2011, 27/3 of 25 September 2014, 36/7 of 28 September 2017 and 45/10 of 6
October 2020, on the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and
guarantees of non-recurrence,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/147 of 16 December 2005, in which
the Assembly adopted the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and
Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious
Violations of International Humanitarian Law,
Recalling further the set of principles for the protection and promotion of human
rights through action to combat impunity,1 and the updated version of those principles,2
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E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/20/Rev.1, annex II.
E/CN.4/2005/102/Add.1.
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