A/HRC/RES/34/22
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 April 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February–24 March 2017
Agenda item 4
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 24 March 2017
34/22.
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 on the situation of human rights
in Myanmar, the most recent being Council resolutions 29/21 of 3 July 2015 and 31/24 of
24 March 2016 and Assembly resolution 70/233 of 23 December 2015,
Welcoming the work and the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in Myanmar, including the report submitted to the Council at its thirty-fourth
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 20 June to 1 July
2016 and, most recently, from 9 to 21 January 2017,
Taking note of the general observations of Myanmar on the report of the Special
Rapporteur submitted to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fourth session,2
Recalling the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on
the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar 3 and
the recommendations contained therein, and the flash report of the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of 3 February 2017, entitled “Interviews
with Rohingyas fleeing from Myanmar since 9 October 2016”, prepared following a
mission to Bangladesh,
Recalling also 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,
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A/HRC/34/67.
A/HRC/34/67/Add.1.
A/HRC/32/18.
GE.17-05281(E)