A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 63 working group of the Sub-Commission mandated to elaborate detailed principles and guidelines, with relevant commentary, concerning the promotion and protection of human rights when combating terrorism; 3. Reaffirms the importance of respecting international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law in the fight against terrorism; 4. Welcomes with satisfaction the report of the sessional working group (A/HRC/Sub.1/26) and takes note of its discussions and its agreed programme of work; 5. Endorses all the recommendations contained in the report of the sessional working group; 6. Requests Ms. Koufa to update the preliminary framework draft of principles and guidelines based on the discussions in the working group, as well as on the notes and comments to be submitted to her later, as recommended by the working group; 7. Decides to transmit to the Human Rights Council the updated framework draft of principles and guidelines, with relevant commentary, concerning the promotion and protection of human rights when combating terrorism, contained in document A/HRC/Sub.1/58/30, for its consideration, recognizing that this draft would necessitate further elaboration and work; 8. Decides to reconvene the working group at its fifty-ninth session, or during the first session of any future expert advice mechanism; 9. Recommends to the Human Rights Council that consideration be given, in its review of the system of expert advice, to the continuation of the working group in order to ensure the continuation of the work to elaborate detailed principles and guidelines, with relevant commentary, concerning the promotion and protection of human rights when combating terrorism. 21st meeting 24 August 2006 [Adopted without a vote. See chap. VIII.] 2006/21. The protection of civilians during armed conflicts The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the relevant human rights instruments and international humanitarian law, in particular the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 on the Laws and Customs of War on Land and the Geneva Conventions of 1949 on the protection of the victims of war and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, which enshrine the principles prohibiting attacks against civilians and requiring that attacks against military objectives and combatants not cause disproportionate harm to civilians and civilian property,