United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/56/175
Distr.: General
28 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 119 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/583/Add.3)]
56/175. Situation of human rights in the Sudan
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect
human rights and fundamental freedoms as stated in the Charter of the United
Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants
on Human Rights 2 and other applicable human rights instruments and the duty to
fulfil the obligations that they have undertaken under the various international
instruments in this field,
Mindful that the Sudan is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights,2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, 2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 the African Charter on Human
and Peoples’ Rights 4 and the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the
protection of victims of war,5
Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in the
Sudan, and taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/18 of
20 April 2001, 6
Deeply concerned at the impact of the continuing conflict in the Sudan
between the Government of the Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/
Movement on the situation of human rights and at the disregard by all parties to the
conflict of relevant rules of international humanitarian law, while welcoming the
repeated declarations by the Government of the Sudan of a comprehensive ceasefire,
Deeply concerned also at the lack of progress in the peace process, the
repeated offensives of the Sudanese army and the Sudan People’s Liberation
Army/Movement, the general upsurge in fighting and the continued aerial bombings
by the Government of the Sudan,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Resolution 44/25, annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1520, No. 26363.
5
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
6
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2001, Supplement No. 3 (E/2001/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
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