Extrajudicial and arbitrary executions and threats of such abuse occur today in all parts of the world, according to the UN Special Rapporteur for these issues. The executions are often carried out with a government’s consent outside the legal framework by a country’s police or security force, or other persons or groups that cooperate with, or are tolerated by, the country’s government and are subsequently crimes against the right to life. For the past ten years or so, Sweden together with the other Nordic countries in the UN General Assembly Third Committee has been pushing for a resolution on summary executions in the UN Human Rights Council.