Human Rights Council
Resolution 6/7.
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the purposes and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling also its decision 4/103 of 30 March 2007 and taking note of General
Assembly resolution 61/170 of 19 December 2006, as well as of the report of the
Secretary-General on this issue (A/HRC/6/2),
Stressing that unilateral coercive measures and legislation are contrary to
international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations
and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations among States,
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated
character of all human rights and, in this regard, reaffirming the right to development
as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of all human rights,
Expressing its concern about the negative impact of unilateral coercive
measures in the field of human rights, development, international relations, trade,
investment and cooperation,
Recalling the Final Document of the Fourteenth Conference of Heads of State
or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement, held in September 2006 in Havana, in
which they agreed to oppose and condemn these measures or laws and their continued
application, persevere with efforts to effectively reverse them and urge other States to
do likewise as called for by the General Assembly and other United Nations organs,
and to request States applying these measures or laws to revoke them fully and
immediately,
Recalling also that the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna
from 14 to 25 June 1993, called upon States to refrain from any unilateral measure not
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