Demands that all States ensure that the practice of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions is brought to an end and that they take effective action to prevent, combat and eliminate the phenomenon in all its forms and manifestations; calls upon Governments and invites intergovernmental and non governmental organizations to pay greater attention to the work of national level commissions of inquiry into extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; calls upon all States to comply with their obligations under relevant provisions of international human rights instruments; urges all States to take all necessary and possible measures to prevent loss of life and to ensure that the police, law enforcement agents, armed forces and other agents acting on behalf of or with the consent or acquiescence of the State act with restraint and in conformity with international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and to ensure the effective protection of the right to life of all persons under their jurisdiction and to investigate promptly and thoroughly all killings; urges all States to ensure that persons deprived of their liberty are treated humanely and with full respect for their human rights; urges all States to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur; and requests the Secretary General to provide the Special Rapporteur with adequate human, financial and material resources to enable him to carry out his mandate effectively.

Adopted 127-0-58, 70th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 63rd sess., Suppl. no. 49.