A/RES/60/233
1.
Welcomes:
(a) The reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human
Rights on the situation of human rights in Myanmar 5 and the reports of the
Secretary-General; 6
(b) The personal engagement and statements of the Secretary-General with
regard to the situation of Myanmar;
(c) The efforts of the United Nations and other international humanitarian
organizations to deliver urgently needed humanitarian assistance to the most
vulnerable people in Myanmar;
(d) The release by the Government of Myanmar of two hundred and fortynine political prisoners on 6 July 2005, while noting that over one thousand, one
hundred political prisoners remain incarcerated;
(e) The establishment by the Government of a committee for the prevention
of military recruitment of underage soldiers and the adoption in November 2004 of
an outline plan of action to address the issues of underage recruitment and child
soldiers;
(f) The ratification by Myanmar on 30 March 2004 of the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and two of the Protocols thereto,
namely, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of
Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, 7 and the enactment by Myanmar on 13 September
2005 of an Anti-trafficking in Persons Law drawn up in accordance with the
Convention;
2.
Expresses grave concern at:
(a) The ongoing systematic violation of the human rights, including civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights, of the people of Myanmar, including
violations of the right to an adequate standard of living, discrimination and
violations suffered by persons belonging to ethnic nationalities, women and
children, especially in non-ceasefire areas, including but not limited to extrajudicial
killings, rape and other forms of sexual violence persistently carried out by
members of the armed forces, continuing use of torture, deaths in custody, political
arrests and continuing imprisonment and other detentions; forced relocation; forced
labour, including child labour; trafficking in persons; denial of freedom of assembly,
association, expression and movement; wide disrespect for the rule of law,
continuing recruitment and use of child soldiers, use of landmines, and the
confiscation of arable land, crops, livestock and other possessions;
(b) The extension of the house arrest of the General Secretary of the
National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, and her deputy, Tin Oo, and the
persistent denial of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, including
freedom of movement and association, as well as the continuing detention,
particularly incommunicado detention, of other senior leaders of the League and of
the leadership of other political parties or ethnic nationalities, particularly the
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E/CN.4/2005/36 and A/60/221.
E/CN.4/2005/130 and A/60/422 and Corr.1.
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Resolution 55/25, annexes I–III.
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