A/HRC/RES/58/22
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 April 2025
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-eighth session
24 February–4 April 2025
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 4 April 2025
58/22.
The impact of anti-personnel mines on the full enjoyment of all human
rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and by the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other relevant instruments of
international human rights law, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as well as the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action,
Reaffirming that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person, and is
entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be fully realized,
Recalling the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols
thereto of 8 June 1977, and other relevant instruments of international humanitarian law,
including the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer
of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention)
and the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional
Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate
Effects (Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons),
Acknowledging that peace and security, development and human rights are the pillars
of the United Nations system and the foundations for collective security and well-being, and
recognizing that peace and security, development and human rights are interlinked and
mutually reinforcing,
Emphasizing that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated,
Acknowledging that international human rights law and international humanitarian
law are complementary and mutually reinforcing, and reaffirming that all efforts should be
made, in accordance with international law, to put an end to human rights violations and
GE.25-05453 (E)