United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/111
Distr.: General
12 March 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/602/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
55/111. 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
Recalling also its resolutions 47/136 of 18 December 1992, 51/92 of
12 December 1996 and 53/147 of 9 December 1998, as well as Commission on
Human Rights resolutions 1992/72 of 5 March 1992 3 and 1998/68 of 21 April 1998, 4
and taking note of Commission resolution 2000/31 of 20 April 2000, 5
Recalling further 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,
Deeply alarmed at the persistence, on a large scale, of extrajudicial, summary
or arbitrary executions in all parts of the world,
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,
Recognizing the contribution of the establishment of the International Criminal
Court with regard to ensuring effective prosecution concerning executions in serious
violation of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, 6
without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording
all judicial guarantees that are generally recognized as indispensable,
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., 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II, sect. A.
5
Ibid., 2000, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum (E/2000/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
6
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
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