UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/RES/12/14 12 October 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth session Agenda item 4 HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATIONS THAT REQUIRE THE COUNCIL’S ATTENTION Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council* 12/14. Situation of human rights in Honduras since the coup d’état on 28 June 2009 The Human Rights Council, Recalling the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Recalling further Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007, Recalling General Assembly resolution 63/301 of 30 June 2009 on the situation in Honduras, Acknowledging the resolutions and declarations adopted by regional and subregional organizations on the coup d’état that took place in Honduras on 28 June 2009, Deeply concerned at the coup d’état in Honduras, Deeply concerned also at the human rights violations in Honduras reported by several special procedures of the Council and regional human rights bodies of the Organization of American States, * The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twelfth session (A/HRC/12/50), chap. I. GE.09-16631