A/RES/73/172
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.2)]
73/172.
Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 which guarantees the
right to life, liberty and security of person, the relevant provisions of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2 and other relevant human rights conventions,
Reaffirming the mandate of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council
on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, as set out in Council resolution
35/15 of 22 June 2017, 3
Welcoming the universal ratification of the Geneva Conventions of 1 2 August
1949, 4 which, alongside international human rights law, provide important legal
frameworks of accountability in relation to extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions during armed conflict,
Recalling all its resolutions on the subject of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions as well as the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and the
Human Rights Council on the subject, and emphasizing the importance of their full
and effective implementation,
Recognizing the positive role that regional human rights systems can play in the
global protection against arbitrary deprivation of life,
Acknowledging the importance of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development 5 and its implementation for the promotion and protection of the
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Resolution 70/1.
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