The negative effects of terrorism on the enjoyment of all human rights

Background

At its thirty-fourth session in March 2017, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 34/8 in which it requested the Advisory Committee to conduct a study and prepare a report on the negative effects of terrorism on the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, with a particular focus on economic, social and cultural rights, including as a result of diverting foreign direct investment, reducing capital inflows, destroying infrastructure, limiting foreign trade, disturbing financial markets, negatively affecting certain economic sectors and impeding economic growth, and to recommend actions to be taken by Governments, United Nations human rights mechanisms, regional and international organizations and civil society organizations in that regard, and to present the report to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-ninth session (September 2018).

The Advisory Committee established a drafting group at its nineteenth session, held from 7 to 11 August 2017.

The final report of the Advisory Committee was submitted to the forty-eighth session (September 2021) of the Human Rights Council, see Negative effects of terrorism on the enjoyment of human rights (2021) - A/HRC/48/66.

Drafting group

At the time of finalization of the report, the members of the drafting group were:

• Buhm-Suk Baek
• Lazhari Bouzid
• Alessio Bruni (Chair)
• Milena Costas Trascasas
• Iurii Alexandrovich Kolesnikov
• José Augusto Lindgren Alves
• Xinsheng Liu
• Ajai Malhotra
• Mona Omar (Rapporteur)
• Elizabeth Salmón
• Patrycja Sasnal