A/HRC/RES/33/19
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 October 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-third session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 30 September 2016
33/19.
Human rights and transitional justice
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, the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of
8 June 1977, other relevant international human rights law and international humanitarian
law instruments and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,
Reaffirming also the significance of the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Convention on the Non-Applicability of
Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity as effective
international instruments for the prevention and punishment of genocide, war crimes and
crimes against humanity,
Recalling the set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights
through action to combat impunity, 1 and the updated version of those principles, 2
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/147 of 16 December 2005, in which
the Assembly adopted the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and
Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious
Violations of International Humanitarian Law,
Recalling further Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2005/70 of 20 April
2005, on human rights and transitional justice, 2005/81 of 21 April 2005, on impunity, and
2005/66 of 20 April 2005, on the right to the truth, Human Rights Council resolutions 9/10
of 24 September 2008, 12/11 of 1 October 2009 and 21/15 of 27 September 2012, on
human rights and transitional justice, 9/11 of 18 September 2008, 12/12 of 1 October 2009
and 21/7 of 27 September 2012, on the right to the truth, 10/26 of 27 March 2009 and 15/5
of 29 September 2010, on forensic genetics, and Council decisions 2/105 of 27 November
1
2
E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/20/Rev.1, annex II.
E/CN.4/2005/102/Add.1.
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