A/HRC/RES/14/7 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 23 June 2010 Original: English Human Rights Council Fourteenth session Agenda item 8 Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council* 14/7 Proclamation of 24 March as the International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other relevant instruments of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Recognizing the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, Recalling articles 32 and 33 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and article 24, paragraph 2, of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 61/177 of 20 December 2006, Taking into account the right to the truth as defined in Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/66 of 20 April 2005, and Council decision 2/105 of 27 November 2006 and resolutions 9/11 of 24 September 2008 and 12/12 of 1 October 2009 on the right to the truth, Acknowledging the reports of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the significant conclusions therein related to the right to the truth (E/CN.4/2006/91, A/HRC/5/7 and A/HRC/12/19), Recognizing the importance of promoting the memory of victims of gross and systematic human rights violations and the importance of the right to truth and justice, * GE.10-14576 The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its fourteenth session (A/HRC/14/37), chap. I.