A/RES/63/182 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, including the principles of proportionality and necessity, and in this regard to ensure that police and law enforcement officials are guided by the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials 8 and the Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials; 9 7F 8F (b) To ensure the effective protection of the right to life of all persons under their jurisdiction and to investigate promptly and thoroughly all killings, including those targeted at specific groups of persons, such as racially motivated violence leading to the death of the victim, killings of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, killings of persons affected by terrorism, hostage-taking or foreign occupation, killings of refugees, internally displaced persons, migrants, street children or members of indigenous communities, killings of persons for reasons related to their activities as human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists or demonstrators, killings committed in the name of passion or in the name of honour, all killings committed for any discriminatory reason, including sexual orientation, as well as all other cases where a person’s right to life has been violated, and to bring those responsible to justice before a competent, independent and impartial judiciary at the national or, where appropriate, international level, and to ensure that such killings, including those committed by security forces, police and law enforcement agents, paramilitary groups or private forces, are neither condoned nor sanctioned by State officials or personnel; Affirms the obligation of States, in order to prevent extrajudicial, 7. summary or arbitrary executions, to protect the lives of all persons deprived of their liberty in all circumstances and to investigate and respond to deaths in custody; Urges all States to ensure that persons deprived of their liberty are 8. treated humanely and with full respect for their human rights and to ensure that their treatment, including judicial guarantees, and conditions conform to the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners 10 and, where applicable, to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 19494 and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 8 June 1977 11 in relation to all persons detained in armed conflict, as well as to other pertinent international instruments; 9F 1H 10F Welcomes the International Criminal Court as an important contribution 9. to ending impunity concerning extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and, taking note of the growing awareness of the Court worldwide, calls upon those States that are under an obligation to cooperate with the Court to provide such cooperation and assistance in the future, in particular with regard to arrest and surrender, the provision of evidence, the protection and relocation of victims and witnesses and the enforcement of sentences, and further welcomes the fact that one hundred and eight States have already ratified or acceded to and one hundred and thirty-nine States have signed the Rome Statute of the Court,5 and calls upon all those States that have not ratified or acceded to the Rome Statute to give serious consideration to doing so; 2H _______________ 8 Resolution 34/169, annex. See Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, 27 August–7 September 1990: report prepared by the Secretariat (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.91.IV.2), chap. I, sect. B. 10 Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, Volume I (First Part): Universal Instruments (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.XIV.4 (Vol. I, Part 1)), sect. J, No. 34. 11 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513. 9 3