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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
19. Expresses its appreciation to those States that have received the Special
Rapporteur, asks them to examine his recommendations carefully, invites them to
inform the Special Rapporteur of the actions taken on those recommendations, and
requests other States to cooperate in a similar way;
20. Once again requests the Secretary-General to continue to use his best
endeavours in cases where the minimum standards of legal safeguards provided for
in articles 6, 9, 14 and 15 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
appear not to have been respected;
21. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with
adequate human, financial and material resources to enable him or her to carry out
his or her mandate effectively, including through country visits;
22. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue, in close collaboration
with the High Commissioner and in conformity with the mandate of the High
Commissioner, established by the General Assembly in its resolution 48/141 of
20 December 1993, to ensure that personnel specialized in international
humanitarian and human rights law, including in provisions related to gender
equality, form part of United Nations missions, where appropriate, in order to deal
with serious violations of human rights, such as extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions;
23. Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit to the General Assembly, at its
seventy-second and seventy-third sessions, a report on the situation worldwide with
regard to extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and his or her
recommendations for more effective action to combat thi s phenomenon;
24.
session.
Decides to continue its consideration of the question at its seventy -third
65th plenary meeting
19 December 2016
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