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Summary or Arbitrary Executions

A/RES/40/143No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1986.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 1983–1995
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/49/191
  • 1995A/RES/49/191Summary or arbitrary executionsLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1993A/RES/47/136Summary or arbitrary executionsCompare with previous version
  • 1991A/RES/45/162Summary or arbitrary executionsCompare with previous version
  • 1990A/RES/44/159Summary or arbitrary executionsCompare with previous version
  • 1989A/RES/43/151Summary or arbitrary executionsCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics
Civil and Political RightsExtralegal ExecutionsStandardsSummary ExecutionsTreaties

What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs
1
Strongly condemns the large number of summary or arbitrary executions, including extra-legal executions, which continue to take place in various parts of the world;
2
Demands that the practice of summary or arbitrary executions be brought to an end;
3
We/comes 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;
4
A/so we/comes Economic and Social Council resolution 1985/40 of 30 May 1985, 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 ofhigh priority at its forty-second session;
5
Urges all Governments and all others concerned to co-operate with and assist the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights in the implementation of his mandate;
6
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;
1
A/so requests the Special Rapporteur to consider, in bis next report, possible measures to be taken by the appropriate authorities when a death occurs in custody, including adequate autopsy;
8
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;
9
Requests the Secretary-General to provide ali necessary assistance to the Special Rapporteur so that he may effectively carry out bis mandate;
10
Again requests the Secretary-General to continue to use bis 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 Rights7 appear not to be respected; General Assembly-Fortieth Sesslon
11
Requests the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-second 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 and 1985/40, to make recommendations concerning appropriate action to combat and eventually eliminate the abhorrent practice of summary or arbitrary executions.
116th p/enary meeting
13 December 1985

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