United Nations
A/RES/57/233
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 January 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 109 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/556/Add.3)]
57/233. Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights 2 and other human
rights instruments,
Reaffirming that all States Members of the United Nations have an obligation
to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the
obligations they have undertaken under the various international instruments in the
field,
Aware that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a party to several
international human rights and humanitarian law instruments, 3
Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, the most recent of which is
resolution 56/173 of 19 December 2001, and those of the Commission on Human
Rights, the most recent of which is resolution 2002/14 of 19 April 2002, 4 as well as
Security Council resolutions on the subject, the most recent of which is resolution
1417 (2002) of 14 June 2002,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (see resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex),
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (see resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex),
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(resolution 39/46, annex), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women (resolution 34/180, annex), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (resolution 2106 A (XX), annex), the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(resolution 44/25, annex) and the two Optional Protocols thereto (resolution 54/263, annexes I and II), the
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (resolution 260 A (III)), the
Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the protection of victims of war (United Nations, Treaty
Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973) and the first Additional Protocol thereto, of 1977 (United Nations, Treaty
Series, vol. 1125, No. 17512), as well as the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (United
Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1520, No. 26363).
4
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No. 3 (E/2002/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
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