94 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARMED CONFLICT Declaration of Human Rights. The General Assembly has adopted a number of human rights principles and standards on the rights of specially protected groups. The General Assembly has also developed standards on the detention, arrest, extradition and punishment of persons guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.133 Concerns for the respect of human rights in armed conflict were already raised in the 1968 Proclamation of Teheran, in which Member States declared that “[m]assive denials of human rights, arising out of aggression or any armed conflict with their tragic consequences, and resulting in untold misery, engender reactions which could engulf the world in ever growing hostilities” (para. 10).134 The Teheran Conference, in its resolution XXIII, requested the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, after consultation with ICRC, to bring to the attention of all States Members of the United Nations the existing rules of international humanitarian law, and urge them, pending the adoption of new rules, to ensure that civilians and combatants are protected. The General Assembly, in resolution 2444 (XXIII), took note of this and also requested the Secretary-General to prepare a study on the question of respect for human rights in armed conflicts. The Secretary-General subsequently submitted several reports to the General Assembly.135 During the 1970s the General Assembly adopted a series of resolutions136 in which it reaffirmed the need to secure the full observance of human rights in armed conflicts. In particular, the General Assembly affirmed in resolution 2675 (XXV) that “[f]undamental human rights, as accepted in international law and laid down in international instruments, continue   Resolution 3074 (XXVIII).    It should be noted that the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights recommended that “the United Nations assume a more active role in the promotion and protection of human rights in ensuring full respect for international humanitarian law in all situations of armed conflict” (A/CONF.157/23, para. 96). 135   A/7720 and A/8052. 136   See resolutions 2597 (XXIV), 2675 (XXV), 2676 (XXV), 2852 (XXVI), 2853 (XXVI), 3032 (XXVII), 3102 (XXVIII), 3319 (XXIX), 3500 (XXX), 31/19 and 32/44. 133 134