A/HRC/16/50 promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as due process and the rule of law, while countering terrorism. The General Assembly reaffirmed the primary responsibility of Member States to implement the Global Strategy, but also recognized the need to enhance the important role that the United Nations, including the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, plays in facilitating and promoting coordination and coherence in the implementation of the Global Strategy at the national, regional and global levels and in providing assistance, upon request by Member States, especially in the area of capacity-building. 6. In a resolution adopted on 20 December 2010,3 the General Assembly again reaffirmed that States must ensure that any measure taken to combat terrorism complies with their obligations under international law, in particular international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law. It also urged States, inter alia, to safeguard the right to privacy in accordance with international law, and take measures to ensure that interferences with the right to privacy are regulated by law, subject to effective oversight and appropriate redress, including through judicial review or other means. The General Assembly also requested the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force to continue its efforts to ensure that the United Nations can better coordinate and enhance its support to Member States in their efforts to comply with their obligations under international law, including international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law, while countering terrorism, and to encourage each working group of the Task Force to incorporate a human rights perspective into its work. It also encouraged relevant United Nations bodies and entities, in particular those participating in the Task Force, to step up their efforts to ensure respect for international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law, as well as the rule of law, as an element of technical assistance, including in the adoption and implementation of legislative and other measures by States. B. Activities of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force 7. The Secretary-General highlighted in his report to the General Assembly that the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, its working groups and entities should continue to ensure respect for human rights and the rule of law as the fundamental basis for their work in assisting Member States in implementing the Global Strategy (A/65/224, para. 36). Similarly, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism encouraged the Task Force to take into account human rights considerations in all aspects of its work, in line with the Global Strategy, and ensure that each working group incorporates a human rights component and perspective (A/65/258, para. 73). It is also my view that as the key comprehensive framework document at the international level for countering terrorism, the Global Strategy should inform the work and approach of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force. I encourage the Task Force, its working groups and its initiatives to incorporate a human rights approach to, and address human rights issues and concerns in, their work, in line with the approach mandated by Member States in the Global Strategy and to ensure that the assistance provided by the Task Force to respond to terrorism is both effective and sustainable. 8. The working group on protecting human rights while countering terrorism issued its first two Basic Human Rights Reference Guides: The Stopping and Searching of Persons and Security Infrastructure in September 2010, and is developing guides on detention in the context of counter-terrorism, the principle of legality in national counter-terrorism 3 4 See A/65/456/Add.2 (Part II), sect. III, draft resolution XVI.