A/HRC/RES/16/16 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 12 April 2011 Original: English Human Rights Council Sixteenth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council* 16/16 Enforced or involuntary disappearances The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming the relevant articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that protect the right of life, the right of liberty and security of the person, the right not to be subjected to torture and the right to recognition as a person before the law, Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 20 (XXXVI) of 29 February 1980, in which the Commission decided to establish a working group of five members to serve as experts in their individual capacity and to examine questions relevant to enforced or involuntary disappearances, and also all previous resolutions on this subject, in particular Human Rights Council resolution 7/12 of 27 March 2008, in which the Council renewed by consensus the mandate of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Recalling General Assembly resolution 47/133 of 18 December 1992, by which the Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as a body of principles for States, Welcoming the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance on 23 December 2010 and the fact that eighty eight States have signed it and twenty three States have ratified or acceded to it, and recognizing that its implementation will be a significant contribution to ending impunity and to the promotion and the protection of all human rights for all, * The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its sixteenth session (A/HRC/16/2), chap. I. GE.11-