A/HRC/RES/44/5
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 July 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-fourth session
30 June–17 July 2020
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 16 July 2020
44/5.
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees the right to
life, liberty and security of person, and the relevant provisions of the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights,
Having regard to the legal framework of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, including the provisions contained in
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1992/72 of 5 March 1992 and General Assembly
resolution 47/136 of 18 December 1992,
Welcoming the universal ratification of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,
which alongside human rights law provide an important framework of accountability in
relation to extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the
Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her
duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Mindful of all relevant General Assembly, Human Rights Council and Commission
on Human Rights resolutions on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, in particular
Commission resolution 2004/37 of 19 April 2004, Council resolutions 8/3 of 18 June 2008,
17/5 of 16 June 2011, 26/12 of 26 June 2014 and 35/15 of 22 June 2017, and Assembly
resolutions 61/173 of 19 December 2006, 65/208 of 21 December 2010, 67/168 of 20
December 2012, 69/182 of 18 December 2014, 71/198 of 19 December 2016 and 73/172 of
17 December 2018,
Acknowledging that extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions are crimes under
the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,
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