A/HRC/RES/54/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 October 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
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 11 October 2023
54/8.
Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and
guarantees of non-recurrence
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Geneva Conventions of 12
August 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 8 June 1977, and other relevant
international human rights law and international humanitarian law instruments,
Reaffirming also the significance of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide, and recalling in this regard the Convention on the NonApplicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity as
effective international instruments for the prevention and punishment of genocide, war
crimes and crimes against humanity,
Recalling the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearance, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 61/177 of 20
December 2006, in which article 24, paragraph 2, sets out the right of victims to know the
truth regarding the circumstances of the enforced disappearance, the progress and results of
the investigation and the fate of the disappeared person, and sets forth State party obligations
to take appropriate measures in this regard, and in the preamble reaffirms the right to freedom
to seek, receive and impart information to that end,
Recalling also 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
Recalling further 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,
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2
E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/20/Rev.1, annex II.
E/CN.4/2005/102/Add.1.
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