United Nations
A/RES/69/182
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/488/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
69/182. 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, 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,
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,
Noting that enforced disappearances can end up in extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions, recalling the importance in this regard of the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 5 and
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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 61/177, annex.
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