A/HRC/RES/15/5 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 6 October 2010 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifteenth 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* 15/5 Forensic genetics and human rights The Human Rights Council, Taking into account its resolution 10/26 of 27 March 2009 on forensic genetics and human rights, Taking into account also Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/66 of 20 April 2005, Council decision 2/105 of 27 November 2006, Council resolutions 9/11 of 24 September 2008 and 12/12 of 1 October 2009, as well as the reports of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to the truth,1 Noting the general comment of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on the right to the truth with regard to enforced disappearances, in which the Working Group highlighted the importance of identifying the victims of enforced disappearances through, among other methods, DNA analysis, 1. Encourages States to consider the use of forensic genetics to contribute to the identification of the remains of victims of serious violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law, and to address the issue of impunity; 2. Also encourages States to consider the use of forensic genetics to contribute to the restoration of identity to those persons who were separated from their families, including those taken away from their relatives when they were children, in situations of serious violations of human rights and, in the context of armed conflicts, of violations of international humanitarian law; * 1 GE.10-16612 The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I. E/CN.4/2006/91, A/HRC/5/7, A/HRC/12/19 and A/HRC/15/33.