A/HRC/RES/15/18 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* 15/18 Arbitrary detention The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming articles 3, 9, 10 and 29, as well as other relevant provisions, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Recalling articles 9 to 11 and 14 to 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1991/42 of 5 March 1991 and 1997/50 of 15 April 1997, as well as Council resolutions 6/4 of 28 September 2007 and 10/9 of 26 March 2009, Recalling further General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006 entitled “Human Rights Council”, Recalling resolution 5/1 entitled “Institution-building of the United Nations Human Rights Council” and resolution 5/2 entitled “Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council”, of 18 June 2007, stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with these resolutions and the annexes thereto, Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and taking that opportunity to raise awareness about the persistence of arbitrary deprivation of liberty, 1. Detention; * GE.10-16684 Stresses the importance of the work of the Working Group on Arbitrary 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.