A/HRC/RES/34/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 April 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February–24 March 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 March 2017
34/8.
Effects of terrorism on the enjoyment of all human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming 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 terrorism,
including Assembly resolutions 46/51 of 9 December 1991, 60/158 of 16 December 2005,
60/288 of 8 September 2006, 64/297 of 8 September 2010, 66/10 of 18 November 2011 on
the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre established on the initiative of the United
Nations and Saudi Arabia, 68/178 of 18 December 2013, 68/276 of 13 June 2014, 69/127 of
10 December 2014 and 70/148 of 17 December 2015, Commission resolution 2004/44 of
19 April 2004 and Human Rights Council resolutions on terrorism and human rights,
including 28/17 of 26 March 2015 and 31/30 of 24 March 2016,
Reaffirming its commitment to the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism
Strategy and its four pillars, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 60/288, and
its fifth review,1
Reaffirming also the right of the people to live in peace, freedom and security and to
be protected at all times from the threat of terrorism,
Reaffirming further that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person,
as enshrined under article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Reaffirming that civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights are universal,
indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of
1
See General Assembly resolution 70/291.
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