A/HRC/RES/42/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 October 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-second session
9–27 September 2019
Agenda item 2
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 26 September 2019
42/3.
Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in
Myanmar
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recalling the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Right of the Child, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and other
relevant international human rights law,
Recalling relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights
Council, the most recent being Assembly resolution 73/264 of 22 December 2018 and
Council resolutions 40/29 of 22 March 2019, 39/2 of 27 September 2018, 37/32 of 23 March
2018, 34/22 of 24 March 2017, 29/21 of 3 July 2015 and S-27/1 of 5 December 2017, and
Council decision 36/115 of 29 September 2017,
Welcoming the work and the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in Myanmar, while deeply regretting the decision of the Government of
Myanmar to discontinue cooperation with the Special Rapporteur and to deny her access to
the country since January 2018,
Welcoming also the work of the Special Envoy on Myanmar, and encouraging her
further engagement and dialogue with the Government of Myanmar,
Welcoming further the work of the independent international fact-finding mission on
Myanmar, including its final report,1 the detailed findings of the independent international
fact-finding mission on Myanmar,2 its paper on the economic interests of the Myanmar
military3 and its paper on sexual and gender-based violence in Myanmar and the gendered
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A/HRC/42/50.
A/HRC/42/CRP.5, available at
www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/session42/Pages/ListReports.aspx.
A/HRC/42/CRP.3, available at
www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/session42/Pages/ListReports.aspx.
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