RES/21/18 Human rights and issues related to terrorist hostage-taking

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

English

Original: French