United Nations
A/RES/71/198
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/484/Add.2)]
71/198. 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 26/12 of 26 June 2014, 3
Welcoming the universal ratification of the Geneva Conventions of 12 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, sum mary 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
enjoyment by all persons of human rights, gender equality, access to justice for all
and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels,
Noting with deep concern that impunity continues to be a major cause of the
perpetuation of violations of human rights, including extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53),
chap. V, sect. A.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
5
Resolution 70/1.
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