Impact of Arms Transfers on Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/47/17View PDF

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A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2021.

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5 versions · 2016–2025

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6 topics

Arms Transfers Children Human Rights International Law Women's Rights Youth

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Expresses its deep concern at the fact that the diversion of arms and unregulated or illicit arms transfers continue to seriously undermine the human rights of individuals, especially women, children, youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities and persons in vulnerable and in conflict situations;

Notes with alarm that such diversion of arms and unregulated or illicit arms transfers can have a severely negative impact on women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of all human rights, increasing the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, and of violence against women, children and youth, as they may be disproportionately affected by the widespread availability of such arms;

Urges all States to refrain from transferring arms when they assess, in accordance with applicable domestic laws, regulations and procedures and international obligations and commitments, that there is a clear risk that such arms might be used to commit or facilitate serious violations or abuses of international human rights law or serious violations of international humanitarian law;

Calls upon States to implement, as appropriate, the recommendations contained in the above-mentioned report to address the impact of the diversion of arms and unregulated or illicit arms transfers on women and girls, and to establish a comprehensive approach for safeguarding human rights from the negative impact of the uncontrolled proliferation of arms;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare, in consultation with States, United Nations agencies and other relevant stakeholders, an analytical report on good practices, lessons learned and challenges faced by States in preventing, mitigating and addressing the diversion of arms and unregulated or illicit arms transfers that have a particular impact on the enjoyment of human rights by children and youth, and the role of national control systems as effective mechanisms in that regard, and to present the report to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-first session;

Invites all relevant special procedures, commissions of inquiry and other relevant mechanisms of the Human Rights Council and human rights treaty bodies to bear the present resolution in mind within the framework of their respective mandates;

Decides to remain seized of this issue.

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