A/HRC/17/39 comprehensive and effective protection of human rights, gender equality and social justice, economic well-being and free and widespread expression of different cultural values, without discrimination or restraints. IV. Core dimensions A. International peace and security 18. In its resolution 14/3, the Human Rights Council reaffirmed that the peoples of our planet have a sacred right to peace, and also that the preservation of the right of peoples to peace and the promotion of its implementation constitute a fundamental obligation of all States and stresses the importance of peace for the promotion and protection of all human rights for all. It reaffirmed standards from previous resolutions of the General Assembly and the Council, as well as articles from the Charter of the United Nations. 19. The purposes of the United Nations, as set out in Article 1 of the Charter, are to maintain international peace and security and to take appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace. Articles 55 and 56 of the Charter require the Organization and all its Member States with a view to the creation of stability and well-being, which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations, to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all. 20. The Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations stresses the importance of maintaining and strengthening international peace founded upon freedom, equality, justice and respect for human rights.9 21. This right has been repeated reaffirmed by the General Assembly in its resolutions. For example, in 1978, the Assembly reaffirmed the right of individuals, States and all mankind to life in peace in its Declaration on the Preparation of Societies for Life in Peace.10 It added that every nation and every human being, regardless of race, conscience, language or sex, has the inherent right to life in peace. Respect for that right, as well as for the other human rights, is in the common interest of all mankind and an indispensable condition of advancement of all nations, large and small, in all fields. 22. The Declaration of the Right of Peoples to Peace solemnly declared that the peoples of our planet have a sacred right to peace and that every State has a fundamental obligation to promote and implement this right. 23. At the 2010 Review Conference of the Rome Statute, held in Kampala, the State parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court agreed to add aggression to the Court’s short list of prosecutable crimes. The members adopted by consensus amendments to the Rome Statute, including a definition of the crime of aggression and a regime establishing how the Court would exercise its jurisdiction over this crime.11 An act of aggression is defined as the use of armed force by one State against another State without the justification of self-defence or authorization by the Security Council.12 9 10 11 12 General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV), annex. General Assembly resolution 33/73. “Delivering on the promise of a fair, effective and independent Court: the crime of aggression”, available from www.iccnow.org/?mod=aggression. The definition, as well as the actions qualifying as acts of aggression contained in the amendments (for example, invasion by armed forces, bombardment and blockade), are influenced by General 5