A/HRC/RES/45/13 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 12 October 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fifth session 14 September–7 October 2020 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 on 6 October 2020 45/13. Human rights and the regulation of civilian acquisition, possession and use of firearms The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, other international human rights law instruments and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions, 26/16 of 26 June 2014, 29/10 of 2 July 2015 and 38/10 of 5 July 2018, Bearing in mind the adoption by the General Assembly of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,1 in particular Sustainable Development Goal 16 to promote peaceful and inclusive societies, and acknowledging that the promotion and protection of human rights and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda are interrelated and mutually reinforcing, Recalling that States bear the primary responsibility under international law to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights and fundamental freedoms, and that such responsibility may include, as appropriate, enacting and enforcing relevant national legislation and implementing related policies and practices, Alarmed that hundreds of thousands of human beings of all ages around the world continue to have their human rights, in particular their right to life and security of person, but also other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including their rights to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to freedom of expression, to enjoy one’s culture and use one’s own language, and the right to participate in public, political and cultural life, and the rights to health, to education, and to an adequate standard of living and social security, 1 General Assembly resolution 70/1. GE.20-13212(E) 