A/RES/75/189
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/478/Add.2, para. 89)]
75/189.
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
44/5 of 16 July 2020, 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, 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,
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20-17342 (E)
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/75/53), chap. V, sect. A.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
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