A/HRC/RES/56/9 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 12 July 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-sixth session 18 June–12 July 2024 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 July 2024 56/9. Human rights and the civilian acquisition, possession and use of firearms The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, other international human rights law instruments and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 26/16 of 26 June 2014, 29/10 of 2 July 2015, 38/10 of 5 July 2018, 45/13 of 6 October 2020 and 50/12 of 7 July 2022, Bearing in mind the adoption by the General Assembly of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,1 in particular Sustainable Development Goal 16 to promote peaceful and inclusive societies, and acknowledging that the promotion and protection of human rights and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda are interrelated and mutually reinforcing, Recalling that States bear the primary responsibility under international law to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights and fundamental freedoms, and that such responsibility may include, as appropriate, enacting and enforcing relevant national legislation and implementing related policies and practices, Recalling also the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and stressing that the responsibility to respect human rights is a global standard of expected conduct for all business enterprises wherever they operate, and that addressing adverse human rights impacts requires taking adequate measures for their prevention, mitigation and, when appropriate, remediation, and encouraging States and business enterprises, including those involved in the manufacture, marketing, sale and transfer of firearms and their ammunition, to implement the Guiding Principles, Alarmed that hundreds of thousands of human beings of all ages around the world continue to have their enjoyment of human rights negatively affected by the misuse, 1 General Assembly resolution 70/1. GE.24-12786 (E)