A/HRC/RES/21/18
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 October 2012
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Twenty-first session
Agenda item 5
Human rights bodies and mechanisms
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council**
21/18
Human rights and issues related to terrorist hostage-taking
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 18/10 of 29 September 2011, in which
the Council requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a study on human rights and
issues related to terrorist hostage-taking and to present an interim report on the study at its
twenty-first session, and the final study at its twenty-third session,
1.
Takes note of the preliminary report submitted by the drafting group of the
Advisory Committee to the Committee at its ninth session;1
2.
Decides to grant the Advisory Committee further time to allow it to submit
an interim report on the subject to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session
and the final study at its twenty-fourth session.
37th meeting
27 September 2012
[Adopted without a vote.]
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GE.12-18158
Reissued for technical reasons on 12 November 2012.
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twenty-first session (A/HRC/21/2), chap. I.
A/HRC/AC/9/CRP.1.
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