In its resolution 30/15, the Human Rights Council expressed deep concern at the profound threat posed by acts resulting from violent extremism to the realization and enjoyment of human rights and by the increasing and serious human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law by violent extremist and terrorist groups. In this context, the Council referred to acts involving unlawful killings, the deliberate targeting of civilians, the unlawful recruitment and use of child soldiers, sexual violence
and other forms of violence, forced conversions, targeted persecution of individuals on the basis of their religion or belief, forced displacement and abduction, abuse of women and children, acts of violence against members of ethnic and religious minorities, and unlawful sieges involving civilians, especially minorities. The General Assembly and the Security Council also have stressed the international nature of the question, with the Security Council drawing a link between violent extremism and terrorism, and warning that the former may be conducive to the latter.