A/HRC/RES/28/3 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 8 April 2015 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth 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 28/3. Ensuring use of remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones in counter-terrorism and military operations in accordance with international law, including international human rights and humanitarian law The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular Article 2, paragraph 4 thereof, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes the right to life, liberty and security of person, among other rights, Reaffirming also the principles enshrined in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Reaffirming further the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolution 25/22 of 28 March 2014, and recalling General Assembly resolution 68/178 of 18 December 2013 and Council resolutions 19/19 of 23 March 2012 and 25/7 of 27 March 2014, Taking note with appreciation of the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, presented to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-fifth session,1 and of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session,2 1 2 A/HRC/25/59. A/68/382. GE.15-07222 (E) 