Human Rights and Terrorism

A/RES/50/186View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 112b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 1996.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1994–2005

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/59/195

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2005	A/RES/59/195	Human rights and terrorism	1,623	79%Compare
2004	A/RES/58/174	Human rights and terrorism	1,330	66%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/160	Human rights and terrorism	1,257	55%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/164	Human rights and terrorism	761	75%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/133	Human rights and terrorism	668	61%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2003–2005

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2005	A/60/326	Human Rights and terrorism report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/59/195
2003	A/58/533	Human rights and terrorism report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/56/160

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Crime Victims Funds Human Rights Regional Cooperation Rehabilitation Terrorism

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Expresses its solidarity with the victims of terrorism;

Reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of the acts, methods and practices of terrorism as activities aimed at the destruction of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democracy, threatening the territorial integrity and security of States, destabilizing legitimately constituted Governments, undermining pluralistic civil society and having adverse consequences on the economic and social development of States;

Calls upon States to take all necessary and effective measures in accordance with international standards of human rights to prevent, combat and eliminate all acts of terrorism wherever and by whomever committed;

Urges the international community to enhance cooperation at regional and international levels in the fight against terrorism in accordance with relevant international instruments, including those relating to human rights, with the aim of its eradication;

Condemns incitement of ethnic hatred, violence and terrorism;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to seek the views of Member States on the possible establishment of a United Nations voluntary fund for victims of terrorism, as well as ways and means to rehabilitate the victims of terrorism and to reintegrate them into society, and to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session, for its consideration, a report containing comments made by Member States on the subject;

Also requests the Secretary-General to transmit the text of the present resolution to all Member States and to competent specialized agencies and intergovernmental organizations for their consideration;

Encourages special rapporteurs, special representatives and working groups of the Commission on Human Rights, as well as treaty bodies, to pay appropriate attention, within their mandates, to the consequences of the acts, methods and practices of terrorist groups;

Decides to consider this question at its fifty-second session under the item entitled "Human rights questions".

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