RES/21/18 Human rights and issues related to terrorist hostage-taking
Document Type: Final Resolution
Date: 2012 Oct
Session: 21st Regular Session (2012 Sep)
Agenda Item: Item5: Human rights bodies and mechanisms
Topic: Terrorism
- Main sponsors54
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Senegal
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Eswatini
Tanzania, United Republic of
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
- Co-sponsors7
GE.12-18158
Human Rights Council Twenty-first session
Agenda item 5
Human rights bodies and mechanisms
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council**
21/18
Human rights and issues related to terrorist hostage-taking
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 18/10 of 29 September 2011, in which
the Council requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a study on human rights and
issues related to terrorist hostage-taking and to present an interim report on the study at its
twenty-first session, and the final study at its twenty-third session,
1. Takes note of the preliminary report submitted by the drafting group of the
Advisory Committee to the Committee at its ninth session;1
2. Decides to grant the Advisory Committee further time to allow it to submit
an interim report on the subject to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session
and the final study at its twenty-fourth session.
37th meeting
27 September 2012
[Adopted without a vote.]
* Reissued for technical reasons on 12 November 2012.
** The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twenty-first session (A/HRC/21/2), chap. I.
1 A/HRC/AC/9/CRP.1.
United Nations A/HRC/RES/21/18*
General Assembly Distr.: General 11 October 2012
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Original: French