Summary or Arbitrary Executions

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1987.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 1983–1995

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/49/191

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1995	A/RES/49/191	Summary or arbitrary executions	1,029	—
1993	A/RES/47/136	Summary or arbitrary executions	—	—
1991	A/RES/45/162	Summary or arbitrary executions	—	—
1990	A/RES/44/159	Summary or arbitrary executions	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/151	Summary or arbitrary executions	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Extralegal Executions Standards Summary Executions

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Strongly condemns once again the large number of summary or arbitrary executions, including extra-legal executions, which continue to take place in various parts of the world;

Demands that the practice of summary or arbitrary execution~ be brought to an end;

Welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 1982/35 of 7 May 1982, in which the Council decided to appoint for one year a special rapporteur to examine the questions related to summary or arbitrary executions;

Also welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 1986/36 of 23 May 1986, in which the Council decided to continue the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, Mr. S. A. Wako, for a further year and requested the Commission on Human Rights to consider the question of summary or arbitrary executions as a matter of high priority at its forty-third session;

Urges ali Governments and ali others concerned to co-operate with and assist the Special Rapporteur of the

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Commission on Human Rights in order that he may carry out his mandate effectively;

Requests the Special Rapporteur, in carrying out his mandate, to respond effectively to information that comes before him, in particular when a summary or arbitrary execution is imminent or threatened, or when such an execution has recently occurred;

Endorses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur in his report135 to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-second session on the need to develop international standards to ensure that proper investigations are conducted by appropriate authorities into all cases of suspicious death, including provisions for adequate autopsy;

Invites the Special Rapporteur to receive information from appropriate United Nations bodies and other international organizations and to examine the elements to be included in such standards and to report to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-third session on progress made in this respect;

Considers that the Special Rapporteur, in carrying out his mandate, should continue to seek and receive information from Governments, United Nations bodies, specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide ali necessary assistance to the Special Rapporteur so that he may effectively carry out his mandate;

Again requests the Secretary-General to continue to use his best endeavours in cases where the mínimum standard of legal safeguards provided for in articles 6, 14 and 15 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights22 appear not to be respected;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-third session, on the basis of the report of the Special Rapporteur to be prepared in conformity with Economic and Social Council resolutions 1982/35, 1983/36, 1984/35, 1985/40 and 1986/36, to make recommendations concerning appropriate action to combat and eventually eliminate the abhorrent practice of summary or arbitrary executions.

13 See E/CN .4/ l 983/4-E/CN4/Sub.2/1982/43 and Corr. l,

chac. XXI. ,cct. A.

L 4 See Seventh Uni1ed Nalions Congress on the Preven/ion of Crime and 1he Treu1mc111 of Ojje11den. Mila11, 26 August-6 September 1985: 131 E/1371, para. 13 (b).

reporl prepared by rhe Secrerarial (United Nations publication, 112 E/2844, para. 122.

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