Ensuring Use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft or Armed Drones in Counter-Terrorism and Military Operations in Accordance with International Law, Including International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

A/HRC/RES/25/22View PDF

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A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2014.

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2 versions · 2014–2015

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/28/3

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2015	A/HRC/RES/28/3	Ensuring use of remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones in counter-terrorism and military operations in accordance with international law, including international human rights and humanitarian law	298	34%Compare
2014	A/HRC/RES/25/22	Ensuring use of remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones in counter-terrorism and military operations in accordance with international law, including international human rights and humanitarian law	750	–

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5 subjects

Conferences Counter-Terrorism Drone Aircraft Human Rights International Law

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6 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, presented to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-fifth session,2 and of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session,⁴

⁴A/68/382.

Welcoming the statements made by the Secretary-General on 13 August 2013, and of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Security Council, on 19 August 2013, and to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-third session, on 27 May 2013, and at its twenty-fifth session, on 3 and 6 March 2014, on the use of remotely piloted aircraft,

Commending the role of civil society organizations in highlighting the humanitarian and human rights impact of the use of remotely piloted aircrafts or armed drones,

Urges all States to ensure that any measures employed to counter terrorism, including the use of remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones, comply with their obligations under international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, international human rights law and international humanitarian law, in particular the principles of precaution, distinction and proportionality;

Calls upon States to ensure transparency in their records on the use of remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones and to conduct prompt, independent and impartial investigations whenever there are indications of a violation to international law caused by their use;

Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council and the human rights treaty bodies to pay attention, within the framework of their mandates, to violations of international law as a result of the use of remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones;

Decides to organize an interactive panel discussion of experts at its twenty-seventh session on the issues raised in the report of the Special Rapporteur on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, from within existing resources, and invites the Office of the High Commissioner to liaise with States, relevant United Nations bodies and agencies, relevant special procedures, civil society and other stakeholders with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to present a summary of the deliberations of the panel discussion at its twenty-eighth session.

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