A/HRC/RES/31/30 financial support, including through collecting funds by their nationals or persons in their territories, or availing financial assets, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of, or with the intention that the funds be used by, or with the knowledge that they are to be used by, terrorist groups or individual terrorists for any purpose, and deny providing safe haven and to prevent terrorists from benefiting directly or indirectly from ransom payments to terrorist groups, and to bring to justice or, where appropriate, extradite, on the basis of the principle of extradite or prosecute, the perpetrators of terrorist acts or any person who supports, facilitates or participates, or attempts to participate, in the financing, planning, preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts or in providing safe havens, Welcoming political commitments, actions and initiatives taken and adopted against kidnapping for ransom in different forums, such as the Algiers Memorandum on Good Practices on Preventing and Denying the Benefits of Kidnapping for Ransom by Terrorists, Deeply concerned at the serious crimes committed by terrorist groups and individuals, including foreign terrorist fighters, that have targeted persons and groups on the basis of their ethnic and religious background and involved gross human rights abuses, Deploring attacks on religious places and shrines and cultural sites, which may violate international law, in particular human rights and international humanitarian law, including any deliberate destruction of relics, monuments and religious sites, Recalling its resolution 16/18 of 24 March 2011 and its follow-up resolutions, the Rabat Plan of Action on the prohibition of advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence and the Istanbul Process for Combating Intolerance, Discrimination and Incitement to Hatred and/or Violence on the Basis of Religion or Belief, and calling for their effective implementation by the international community in order to contribute to a more conducive environment to countering the messages of extremist groups attempting to justify violence, including through ethnic or religious stigmatization and discrimination, Affirming States’ determination to work towards conflict resolution, to confront oppression, to eradicate poverty, to promote sustained economic growth, sustainable development, global prosperity, good governance, human rights for all and the rule of law, to improve intercultural understanding and to ensure respect for all, 1. Strongly condemns all terrorist acts as criminal and unjustifiable, and expresses grave concern at their detrimental effects on the enjoyment of human rights, including the right to life, liberty and security of person, as stipulated in article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 2. Expresses its concern that terrorists and terrorist groups have targeted population segments and regions, and in some cases on the basis of religion and/or ethnicity of specific individuals and communities; 3. Reaffirms the primary responsibility of States in preventing and countering terrorism in all its forms and manifestations in the territory under their jurisdiction, in full compliance with their international law obligations; 4. Urges States, while countering terrorism, to respect and protect all human rights, bearing in mind that certain counter-terrorism measures may have an impact on the enjoyment of those rights; 5. Expresses concern at the increase in kidnapping and hostage-taking with demands for ransom and/or political concessions being made by terrorist groups, and expresses the need to address this issue; 6. Reiterates the obligation of States to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist acts, including ransom payment, and to criminalize the wilful provision or 3