United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/214
Distr.: General
25 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 109 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/556/Add.2 and Corr.1–3)]
57/214. 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, and the relevant provisions of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2
Having regard to the legal framework of the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions, including the provisions contained in Commission on Human
Rights resolution 1992/72 of 5 March 1992 3 and General Assembly resolution
47/136 of 18 December 1992,
Mindful of its resolutions on the subject of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions, of which the most recent is resolution 55/111 of 4 December 2000, and
resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on the subject, and taking note of
the most recent, resolution 2002/36 of 22 April 2002, 4
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/50 of 25 May 1984
and the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death
penalty, annexed thereto, and Council resolution 1989/64 of 24 May 1989 on their
implementation, as well as the Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims
of Crime and Abuse of Power adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution
40/34 of 29 November 1985,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1989/65 of 24 May
1989, in which the Council recommended the Principles on the Effective Prevention
and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions,
Dismayed that in a number of countries impunity, the negation of justice,
continues to prevail and often remains the main cause of the continuing occurrence
of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in those countries,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1992, Supplement No. 2 (E/1992/22), chap. II,
sect. A.
4
Ibid., 2002, Supplement No. 3 (E/2002/23), chap. II, sect. A.
2
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