United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/116
Distr.: General
12 March 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 114 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/602/Add.3)]
55/116. Situation of human rights in the Sudan
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect
human rights and fundamental freedoms as stated in the Charter of the United
Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants
on Human Rights 2 and other applicable human rights instruments and to fulfil the
obligations that they have undertaken under the various international instruments in
this field,
Mindful that the Sudan is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, 2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 the African Charter on Human
and Peoples’ Rights 4 and the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, 5
Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in the
Sudan, and taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/27 of
18 April 2000, 6
Aware of the urgent need for the Government of the Sudan to implement
effective additional measures in the field of human rights and humanitarian relief in
order to protect the civilian population from the effects of armed conflicts,
Expressing its firm belief that progress towards a peaceful settlement of the
conflict in southern Sudan within the peace initiative of the Intergovernmental
Authority on Development will contribute greatly to the creation of a better
environment to encourage respect for human rights in the Sudan,
Condemning the murder of four Sudanese relief workers in April 1999 while in
the custody of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement,
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Resolution 44/25, annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1520, No. 26363.
5
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
6
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum
(E/2000/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
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