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Human Rights Obligations of Armed Non-State Actors:
An Exploration of the Practice of the UN Human Rights Council
43
Resolution
No
Year &
Session
21/31 21st,
2012
20/17 20t,
2012
Type
Technical
assistance:
Somalia
Country:
Mali
Term used to describe
human rights (HR) abuses
by ANSAs
PP: condemns the violations
and abuses by state and
non-state actors.
OP 1: condemns grave and
systematic HR abuses and
violations perpetrated, in
particular by al-Shabaab
and its affiliates.
OP 4: holds perpetrators of
HR violations and abuses
accountable.
OP 5: urges non-State
actors, in particular
al-Shabaab, to refraim
from abusing the rights of
women.
OP 2: Condemns the HR
violations and acts of
violence committed in
norther Mali in particular by
the rebels, terrorist groups,
and other organized transnational
crime networks.
NB: no reference to ‘abuses’ anywhere
in the resolution.
Context
of Armed
Conflict
(AC)
AC in
Somalia
AC in Mali
Vote
No vote
No vote
20/21 20th,
2012
Assistance
to Somalia
OP 2: condemns the grave
and systematic HR abuses,
in particular by
al-Shabaab and its affiliates.
OP 10: urges all parties to
take steps to protect
children and to end abuses
and violations against them.
OP 12: urges all parties to
take steps to proect women
and to end abuses and
violations of their HR.
AC in
Somalia
No vote