A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 66 1. Urges States to adopt laws and policies regarding the manufacture, possession, transfer and use of small arms and light weapons that comply with principles of international human rights and international humanitarian law; 2. Also urges States to provide training on the use of firearms by armed forces and law enforcement personnel consistent with basic principles of international human rights and humanitarian law with special attention to the promotion and protection of human rights as a primary duty of all State officials; 3. Further urges States to take effective measures to minimize violence carried out by armed private actors and individuals, including using due diligence to prevent small arms and light weapons from getting into the hands of those who are likely to misuse them; 4. Requests, as a means of preventing human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons, that persons and groups who document human rights practices, including United Nations special procedures, United Nations human rights monitors in field operations and non-governmental organizations, seek out information and report specifically on human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons; 5. Welcomes the final report of the Special Rapporteur, Barbara Frey, on the prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons (A/HRC/Sub.1/58/27), containing the draft principles on the prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons (A/HRC/Sub.1/58/27/Add.1); 6. Endorses the draft principles on the prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons as amended by the Special Rapporteur to reflect the discussion at the fifty-eighth session of the Sub-Commission, annexed to the present resolution and encourages their application and implementation by States, intergovernmental organizations and other relevant actors; 7. Requests Ms. Frey to compile and update the study on prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons so that it can be published in one volume as part of the Human Rights Study Series, in all the official languages of the United Nations; 8. Decides to transmit to the Human Rights Council the draft principles on the prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons for consideration and adoption by the Council; 9. Decides to request the Secretariat to transmit the draft principles on the prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons to the Human Rights Committee and other United Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodies, to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, to the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and to regional human rights bodies, so as to assure their wide dissemination;