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.

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