A/HRC/RES/17/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 July 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council∗
17/8
Proclamation of 19 August as the International Day of
Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other relevant
instruments of international human rights law and international humanitarian law,
Taking into account the importance of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism
Strategy, adopted on 8 September 2006, reaffirming the fact that the promotion and
protection of human rights for all and the rule of law are essential to the fight against
terrorism, recognizing that effective counter-terrorism measures and the protection of
human rights are not conflicting goals but complementary and mutually reinforcing, and
stressing the need to promote and protect the rights of victims of terrorism,
Deploring deeply the suffering caused by terrorism to the victims and their families,
expressing its profound solidarity with them and stressing the importance of providing them
with proper assistance,
Reaffirming its unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of
terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, wherever and by whomever committed,
regardless of their motivation, as criminal and unjustifiable, and renewing its commitment
to strengthen international cooperation to prevent and combat terrorism,
Reaffirming also the fact that acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all its forms
and manifestations are activities aimed at the destruction of human rights, fundamental
freedoms and democracy, threatening the territorial integrity and security of States and
destabilizing legitimately constituted Governments,
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.
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