A/HRC/RES/16/24
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 April 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Sixteenth session
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
16/24
Situation of human rights in Myanmar
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights,
and reaffirming also previous resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, the Human
Rights Council and the General Assembly on the situation of human rights in Myanmar,
including Council resolutions 10/27 of 27 March 2009, 12/20 of 2 October 2009 and 13/25
of 26 March 2010, and General Assembly resolutions 64/238 of 24 December 2009 and
65/241 of 24 December 2010,
Welcoming the work of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar, taking note of his latest report,1 in which he urges the implementation of the
recommendations contained therein and those within previous reports, concerned about the
lack of implementation of previous recommendations and regretting that no visit of the
Special Rapporteur has been allowed to the country since February 2010,
Increasingly concerned that the urgent calls contained in the above-mentioned
resolutions and reports and in those of other United Nations bodies concerning the human
rights situation in Myanmar have still not been met, and emphasizing the urgent need for
significant progress towards meeting the calls of the international community,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
Council, and 5/2, on the code of conduct for special procedures mandate holders of the
Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her
duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
* The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
1
GE.11-12706
the Council on its sixteenth session (A/HRC/16/2), chap. I.
A/HRC/16/59.