A/HRC/RES/42/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 October 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-second session
9–27 September 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 26 September 2019
42/11.
Human rights in the administration of justice, including juvenile justice
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all relevant international
treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention
on the Rights of the Child and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Optional Protocol thereto, as well as the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance,
and encouraging all States that have not ratified or acceded to the aforementioned treaties to
consider doing so expeditiously,
Bearing in mind the numerous other international standards and norms in the field of
administration of justice, in particular of juvenile justice, including the United Nations
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), the
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (the
Beijing Rules), the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Noncustodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), the United Nations
Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (the Tokyo Rules), the Basic
Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, the Principles
on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Istanbul Principles) and the United Nations
Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems,
Recalling all resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights
Council, the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council relevant to the
subject, in particular Human Rights Council resolution 36/16 of 29 September 2017,
General Assembly resolution 73/177 of 17 December 2018 and Economic and Social
Council resolution 2017/19 of 6 July 2017,
Noting with appreciation the work of all special procedures of the Human Rights
Council that address human rights in the administration of justice in the discharge of their
mandates,
Noting with interest the work of all human rights treaty body mechanisms on human
rights in the administration of justice, in particular the adoption by the Human Rights
Committee of its general comments No. 21 (1992) on humane treatment of prisoners
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