A/RES/64/175
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 March 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 69 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.3)]
64/175. Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that States Members of the United Nations have an obligation to
promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the
obligations that they have undertaken under the various international instruments,
Mindful that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a party to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1 the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,1 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2
and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, 3
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Noting the constructive dialogue with the Committee on the Rights of the
Child during the consideration of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s
combined third and fourth periodic reports on the implementation of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child as a sign of engagement in international cooperative
efforts in the field of human rights, and hoping that the enhanced dialogue will
contribute to improving the situation of children in the country,
Taking note of the concluding observations of the treaty-monitoring bodies
under the four treaties to which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a
party, the most recent of which were given by the Committee on the Rights of the
Child in January 2009, 4
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Noting with appreciation the collaboration established between the
Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United Nations
Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization in order to improve the health
situation in the country, and the collaboration established with the United Nations
Children’s Fund in order to improve the quality of education for children,
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1
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
3
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
4
See CRC/C/PRK/CO/4.
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