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7.
Also requests the Special Rapporteur to continue, in his next report, to pay special attention to
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of children and women and to allegations concerning violations of
the right to life in the context of violence against participants in demonstrations and other peaceful public
manifestations or against persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities;
8.
Welcomes the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur in his reports to the
Commission on Human Rights at its forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth
and fiftieth sessions 5/ with a view to eliminating summary or arbitrary executions;
9.
Encourages Governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to
organize training programmes and to support projects with a view to training or educating military forces, law
enforcement officers and government officials, as well as members of the United Nations peace-keeping or
observer missions, in human rights and humanitarian law issues connected with their work, and appeals to the
international community to support endeavours to that end;
10.
Urges the Special Rapporteur to continue to draw to the attention of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights such situations of extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions as are of
particularly serious concern to him or where early action might prevent further deterioration;
11.
Requests the Special Rapporteur to continue to monitor the implementation of existing
international standards on safeguards and restrictions relating to the imposition of capital punishment, bearing in
mind the comments made by the Human Rights Committee in its interpretation of article 6 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2/ as well as the Second Optional Protocol thereto; 6/
12.
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,
as well as medical and forensic experts;
13.
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide all necessary assistance to the Special
Rapporteur and, in view of the increasing workload of the Special Rapporteur, to substantially increase, within
existing resources, the human and material resources placed at his disposal, so that he may effectively carry out
his mandate;
14.
Again requests the Secretary-General to continue to use his best endeavours in cases where the
minimum standard of legal safeguards provided for in articles 6, 14 and 15 of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights appears not to have been respected;
5/ E/CN.4/1988/22 and Add.1 and 2, E/CN.4/1989/25, E/CN.4/1990/22 and Corr.1 and Add.1,
E/CN.4/1991/36, E/CN.4/1992/30 and Corr.1 and Add.1, E/CN.4/1993/46 and E/CN.4/1994/7 and Corr.1 and 2
and Add.1 and 2.
6/
Resolution 44/128, annex.
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