A/HRC/RES/42/17 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 7 October 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda item 3 Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 26 September 2019 42/17. Human rights and transitional justice The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 8 June 1977, other relevant international human rights law and international humanitarian law instruments and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2005/70 of 20 April 2005, on human rights and transitional justice, 2005/81 of 21 April 2005, on impunity, and 2005/66 of 20 April 2005, on the right to the truth, Human Rights Council resolutions 9/10 of 24 September 2008, 12/11 of 1 October 2009, 21/15 of 27 September 2012 and 33/19 of 30 September 2016, on human rights and transitional justice, 9/11 of 18 September 2008, 12/12 of 1 October 2009 and 21/7 of 27 September 2012, on the right to the truth, 10/26 of 27 March 2009 and 15/5 of 29 September 2010, on forensic genetics and human rights, Council decisions 2/105 of 27 November 2006, on the right to the truth, and 4/102 of 23 March 2007, on transitional justice, General Assembly resolution 68/165 of 18 December 2013, on the right to the truth, as well as Council resolutions 18/7 of 29 September 2011, 27/3 of 25 September 2014 and 36/7 of 28 September 2017, on the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/147 of 16 December 2005, in which the Assembly adopted the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law, Recalling further the set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity,1 and the updated version of those principles, 2 Recalling the report of the Secretary-General on the rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict societies3 and his follow-up report on the same topic,4 including 1 2 3 4 E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/20/Rev.1, annex II. E/CN.4/2005/102/Add.1. S/2004/616. S/2011/634. GE.19-17183(E) 