A/HRC/RES/37/32
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 April 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 4
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 23 March 2018
37/32.
Situation of human rights in Myanmar
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, and reaffirming all relevant
Human Rights Council and General Assembly resolutions and decisions on the situation of
human rights in Myanmar, the most recent being Assembly resolution 72/248 of 24
December 2017, Council resolutions 34/22 of 24 March 2017 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, including the report submitted to the Human Rights Council at
its current session,1 and the cooperation of the Government of Myanmar with the Special
Rapporteur, including the facilitation of her visits to some parts of the country from 10 to
21 July 2017, while expressing deep concern at the decision of the Government to deny the
Special Rapporteur access for a subsequent visit in January 2018,
Welcoming also the cooperation extended by the Governments of Bangladesh and
Thailand, allowing in this context the Special Rapporteur to visit these two neighbouring
countries from 10 to 30 January 2018, while calling upon the Government of Myanmar to
resume its cooperation with the Special Rapporteur without delay,
Welcoming further the work of the independent international fact-finding mission on
Myanmar and its oral updates to the Council, while deeply regretting that the Government
of Myanmar is not cooperating with the fact-finding mission, and urging the Government to
grant it full, unrestricted and unmonitored access to all areas and interlocutors,
Recalling the requests made by the General Assembly in its resolution 72/248 that
the Government of Myanmar grant full, unrestricted and unmonitored access for the factfinding mission, other human rights mechanisms and relevant United Nations agencies to
independently monitor the human rights situation, and to ensure that individuals have
unhindered access to and can communicate with the United Nations and other human rights
entities without fear of reprisal, intimidation or attack,
Acknowledging the request made by the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights during the special session of the Human Rights Council on the situation of
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