Safety and Security of Humanitarian Personnel and Protection of United Nations Personnel

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 20 Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance, published in 1999.

What other versions does this mandate have?

28 versions · 1999–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/112

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/112	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel	6,816	99%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/138	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel	6,797	90%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/118	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel	6,181	96%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/31	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel	5,971	98%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/127	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel	5,901	89%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

23 reports · 2003–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/71	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/112
2025	A/80/292	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/138
2024	A/79/149	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/118
2023	A/78/369	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/31
2022	A/77/362	Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/127

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Detained Persons Human Rights in Armed Conflicts Humanitarian Assistance Laws and Regulations Privileges and Immunities Prosecution Relief Personnel Staff Security

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Respect for the privileges and immunities of officials of the United Nations and the specialized agencies and related organizations: safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel”;¹³

¹³A/53/501.

Urges all States to take the necessary measures to ensure the full and effective implementation of the relevant principles and rules of international humanitarian law, including those related to the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and United Nations personnel;

Also urges all States to take the necessary measures to ensure the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and United Nations personnel, to respect and ensure respect for the inviolability of United Nations premises, which are essential to the continuation and successful implementation of United Nations operations, and to ensure the speedy release of United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation who have been arrested or detained in violation of their immunity, in accordance with the relevant conventions referred to in the present resolution and applicable international humanitarian law;

Encourages all States to become parties to and to respect fully the provisions of the relevant international instruments, including the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel;11

Calls upon all States to provide adequate and prompt information concerning the arrest or detention of humanitarian personnel and United Nations personnel, to allow independent medical teams to investigate the health of those detained and to afford them the necessary medical assistance;

Requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to ensure full respect for the human rights, privileges and immunities of United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation, to consider ways and means to strengthen the protection of United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation, notably by seeking the inclusion, in negotiations of headquarters and other mission agreements concerning United Nations and associated personnel, of the applicable conditions contained in the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations,9 the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies10 and the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel;

Also requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures, falling within his responsibilities, to ensure that security matters are an integrated part of the planning for an operation and that such precautions extend to all United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation;

Further requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to ensure that United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation are properly informed and suitably trained so as to enhance their security and effectiveness in accomplishing their functions;

Calls upon all States to consider signing and ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court;8

Strongly condemns any act or failure to act which obstructs or prevents humanitarian personnel and United Nations personnel from discharging their humanitarian functions, or which entails their being subjected to threats, the use of force or physical attack frequently resulting in injury or death;

Calls upon all Governments and parties in complex humanitarian emergencies, in particular armed conflicts and post-conflict situations, in countries where humanitarian personnel are operating, in conformity with the relevant provisions of international law and national laws, to cooperate fully with the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies and organizations and to ensure the safe and unhindered access of humanitarian personnel in order to allow them to perform efficiently their task of assisting the affected civilian population, including refugees and internally displaced persons;

Reaffirms the necessity for humanitarian personnel and United Nations personnel to be properly informed, inter alia, by their sponsoring organizations of the scope of their activities and the standards that they are required to meet, including those contained in relevant domestic and international law, and suitably trained so as to enhance their security and effectiveness in accomplishing their functions;

Also reaffirms the necessity for all humanitarian personnel to respect the national laws of the countries in which they are operating;

Urges all States to ensure that any threat or act of violence committed against humanitarian personnel on their territory is fully investigated and to take all appropriate measures, in accordance with international law and national legislation, to ensure that the perpetrators of such acts are prosecuted;

Welcomes the establishment by the Secretary-General of the Trust Fund for Security of personnel of the United Nations system in the field and encourages all States to contribute to the Trust Fund;

Notes the discussions on the respect for and security of humanitarian personnel at the first periodical meeting on international humanitarian law, held at Geneva in January 1998, and of the report of the President of that meeting;

Requests the Secretary-General to present a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session on the safety and security situation of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel and measures to be taken to improve it, taking into account the views of Governments, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, other relevant humanitarian actors and the United Nations Security Coordinator.

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