11. Also calls upon States to ensure that guidelines and practices in all border control operations and other pre-entry mechanisms are clear and fully respect their obligations under international law, particularly refugee law and human rights law, towards persons seeking international protection; 12. Urges States, while countering terrorism, to ensure due process guarantees, consistent with all relevant provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and of the Geneva Conventions and their additional Protocols, and the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees and the 1969 Protocol relating to the status of refugees, in their respective fields of applicability; 13. Also urges all States to take all necessary steps to ensure that persons deprived of liberty, regardless of the place of arrest or of detention, benefit from the guarantees to which they are entitled under international law, including the review of their detention and, if subjected to trial, fundamental judicial guarantees; 14. Opposes any form of deprivation of liberty that amounts to placing a detained person outside of the protection of the law, and urges States to respect the safeguards concerning the liberty, security and dignity of the person and to treat all prisoners in all places of detention in accordance with international law, including human rights law and international humanitarian law; 15. Acknowledges the adoption of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance by the General Assembly in its resolution 61/177 of 20 December 2006 and recognizes that its entry into force will be a significant event; 16. Calls upon States to ensure that their laws criminalizing terrorist conduct and/or activities are accessible, formulated with precision, non-discriminatory, nonretroactive and in accordance with international law, including human rights law; 17. Urges States while ensuring full compliance with their international obligations, to include adequate human rights guarantees in their national procedures for the listing of individuals and entities with a view to combat terrorism;

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