A/HRC/RES/26/16 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 16 July 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-sixth 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 26/16. Human rights and the regulation of civilian acquisition, possession and use of firearms The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, other international human rights law instruments and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, and Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 and decision 5/101 of 18 June 2007, and 16/21 of 25 March 2011, Recalling in particular that the Human Rights Council has the mandate to, inter alia, serve as a forum for dialogue on thematic issues on all human rights, Recalling that States bear the primary responsibility under international law to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to life and security of person, and that such responsibility may include, as appropriate, the enacting and enforcing of relevant national legislation, Reaffirming that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person and is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be fully realized, Alarmed that hundreds of thousands of human beings of all ages around the world, including women and children, have their human rights, in particular their right to life and security of person, negatively affected by the misuse, intentional or unintentional, of firearms, and that a significant number of such killings of women have occurred as a result of inter-partner violence, GE.14-08522 (E) *1408522*