Summary or Arbitrary Executions

A/RES/42/141View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1988.

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?

4 subjects

Extralegal Executions Laws and Regulations Standards Summary Executions

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Once again strungly condemns the large number of summary or arbitrary executions, including extra-legal executions, that continue to take place in various parts of the \\orle!;

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

]_ Welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 1982, J5 of 7 May 1982, in which the Council decided to apprnnt for one year a special rapporteur to consi?er the 4ucst1ons related to summary or arb1trary executlons;

A/so welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 1987/60 of 29 May 1987, 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 que~tion of sumrnary or arbitrary executions as a matter of h1gh pnority at its forty-fourth session;

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L:rges ali Governments and ali others concerned to co-opcrate with and assist the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights in order that he may carry nut his mandate effectivcly;

Requesls the Special Rapporteur, in carrying out his mandatc, to respond effectively to information that comes before him, in particular when a summary or arbitrary execution is imminent or threatened, or when such anexecutÍ<•n has recently occurred;

Welcomes the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur in his report 165 to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-third session with a view to eliminatlllg summary or arbitrary executions;

Endorses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur 011 the need to develop international standards d~- signed to ensure etfective legislation and other domestlc measures so that proper investigations are conducted by apprnpriate authorities into ali cases of suspicious death, including provisions for adequate autopsy;

/ nviles the Special Rapporteur to continue 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-fourth 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 Govemments, United Nations bodies, specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizati,ms and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council;

Rcquests the Secretary-General to continue to provide ali necessarv assistance to the Special Rapporteur so that he may eff¡ctively carry out his mandate;

Again requests the Secretary-General to continue to use his best cndeavours in cases whcrc the mínimum standard of legal safeguard~ provided for in articles 6, 14 and 15 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 13 appear not to be rcspected:

Requests the Commissinn on Human Rights at its forty-fourth session, on the basis of the report of the Special Rapporteur to be prepared in conformity with Eco nomic and Social Council resolutions 1982/35, 198V36, 1984/35, 1985/40, 1986/36 and 1987/60, to make recommendations concerning appropriate action to comhat a11CI eventually eliminate the abhorrent practice ofsummary or arbitrary execut ion s.

93rd plenary meeling

7 December 1987

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164 See Seventh United Nations Co11gress on the Preventw11 of Crime and the Treatment of OJ}enders. Milan. 26 Aug11.11-6 Sepleml,er 1985 report prepared by the Sccretariat (l11111cd Nalllins puhlic-atÍ<ln. 'iales No

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