Human Rights Council Tenth Session Resolution 10/26. Forensic genetics and human rights The Human Rights Council, Recalling the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, and other relevant instruments of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Taking into account Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/66 of 20 April 2005, Council decision 2/105 of 27 November 2006 and resolution 9/11 of 24 September 2008 and the reports of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (E/CN.4/2006/91 and A/HRC/5/7) on the right to the truth, Taking into account also Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1993/33 of 5 March 1993, 1994/31 of 4 March 1994, 1996/31 of 19 April 1996, 1998/36 of 17 April 1998, 2000/32 of 20 April 2000, 2003/33 of 23 April 2003 and 2005/26 of 19 April 2005 on human rights and forensic science, Recalling article 32 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, of 12 August 1949, which recognizes the right of families to know the fate of their relatives, article 33 of Additional Protocol I, which provides that the parties to an armed conflict shall search for the persons who have been reported missing as soon as circumstances permit, and article 24 (2) of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which sets out the right of victims to know the truth regarding the circumstances of the enforced disappearance, the progress and results of the investigation and the fate of the disappeared person, and sets forth State party obligations to take appropriate measures in this regard, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 61/155 of 19 December 2006 on missing persons, in which the Assembly emphasized the importance of forensics in identifying such persons, and recognized the progress achieved in this regard with the development of genetics, as well as the report of the Secretary-General on missing persons (A/63/299), Noting the report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on missing persons and their families of February 2003, Stressing that adequate steps to identify victims should also be taken in situations of serious violations of human rights and, in the context of armed conflicts, of violations of international humanitarian law,