A/HRC/RES/51/24
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
51/24.
Terrorism and human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of 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 and other relevant
international human rights instruments,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council, the
Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council concerning human rights and
terrorism, the most recent being General Assembly resolutions, 76/169 of 16 December 2021,
72/129 of 8 December 2017, 72/165 of 19 December 2017, 72/180 of 19 December 2017,
72/246 of 24 December 2017, 73/174 of 17 December 2018, 73/305 of 28 June 2019 and
74/147 of 18 December 2019, and reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions 34/8 of 23
March 2017, 35/34 of 24 June 2017, 37/27 of 23 March 2018, 40/16 of 22 March 2019, 42/18
of 26 September 2019, 45/11 of 6 October 2020 and 49/10 of 31 March 2022,
Emphasizing that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated,
Reaffirming that States must ensure that any measure taken to counter terrorism and
violent extremism conducive to terrorism complies with international law, in particular
international human rights law, international refugee law and international humanitarian law,
Reaffirming also the obligation of States to respect, promote and protect all human
rights and fundamental freedoms and the fundamental importance of respecting the rule of
law,
Reaffirming further its unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and practices
of terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism in all their forms and
manifestations, wherever and by whomsoever committed, regardless of their motivation, and
of the financial, material or political support of terrorism as unjustifiable in accordance with
applicable international law,
Recognizing that terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism have a
detrimental effect on the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms,
impede the full enjoyment of political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights, destroy
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