A/RES/67/181
United Nations
Distr.: General
20 March 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 69 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/457/Add.3 and Corr.1)]
67/181. Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that States Members of the United Nations 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
Acknowledging the participation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
in the universal periodic review process, expressing serious concern at the continued
refusal of the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to
articulate its position as to which recommendations included in the outcome report
of its universal periodic review, 4 adopted in March 2010, enjoy its support, and
regretting the continuing lack of action by the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea to implement the recommendations contained in the report,
Recalling the concluding observations of the treaty-monitoring bodies under
the four treaties to which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a party,
Noting with appreciation the collaboration established between the
Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United Nations
Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization in order to improve the health
situation in the country, and the collaboration established with the United Nations
Children’s Fund in order to improve the quality of education for children,
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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
A/HRC/13/13.
2
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