A/RES/60/147 2. Recommends that States take the Basic Principles and Guidelines into account, promote respect thereof and bring them to the attention of members of the executive bodies of government, in particular law enforcement officials and military and security forces, legislative bodies, the judiciary, victims and their representatives, human rights defenders and lawyers, the media and the public in general; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to take steps to ensure the widest possible dissemination of the Basic Principles and Guidelines in all the official languages of the United Nations, including by transmitting them to Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and by including the Basic Principles and Guidelines in the United Nations publication entitled Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments. 64th plenary meeting 16 December 2005 Annex Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Preamble The General Assembly, Recalling the provisions providing a right to a remedy for victims of violations of international human rights law found in numerous international instruments, in particular article 8 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 article 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,2 article 6 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,5 article 14 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,6 and article 39 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,7 and of international humanitarian law as found in article 3 of the Hague Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land of 18 October 1907 (Convention IV),8 article 91 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977,9 and articles 68 and 75 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,10 _______________ 5 Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, No. 24841. 7 Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531. 8 See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915). 9 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, No. 17512. 10 Official Records of the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, Rome, 15 June–17 July 1998, vol. I: Final documents (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.I.5), sect. A. 6 2