United Nations
A/RES/68/183
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 February 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 69 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.3)]
68/183. Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all States have an obligation to promote and protect human
rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the obligations that they have
undertaken under the various international instruments,
Mindful that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a party to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1 the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,1 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2
and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, 3 and recalling the concluding observations of the treaty-monitoring bodies
under the four treaties,
Recalling all previous resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the
Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the situation of
human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including Assembly
resolution 67/181 of 20 December 2012 and Council resolution 22/13 of 21 March
2013, 4 and mindful of the need for the international community to strengthen its
coordinated efforts aimed at achieving the implementation of those resolutions,
Welcoming the establishment of the commission of inquiry by the Human
Rights Council in its resolution 22/13, taking note of its initial oral report to the
Council in September 2013 and to the General Assembly in October 2013, and
commending its methodology of conducting public hearings with witnesses, while
regretting that the commission has received no cooperation from the authorities of
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including with regard to access to the
country,
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1
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
3
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
4
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53),
chap. IV, sect. A.
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