A/HRC/RES/47/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 July 2021
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-seventh session
21 June–14 July 2021
Agenda item 2
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the
High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 12 July 2021
47/1.
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 resolutions 75/238 of 31 December 2020 and
75/287 of 18 June 2021 and Council resolutions 29/21 of 3 July 2015, 34/22 of 24 March
2017, 37/32 of 23 March 2018, 39/2 of 27 September 2018, 40/29 of 22 March 2019, 42/3 of
26 September 2019, 43/26 of 22 June 2020, 46/21 of 24 March 2021 and S-27/1 of 5
December 2017, and Council decision 36/115 of 29 September 2017,
Welcoming the reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
on the root causes of the human rights violations and abuses faced by the Rohingya and other
minorities in Myanmar to the Human Rights Council at its forty-third session,1 and on the
implementation of the recommendations of the independent fact-finding mission on
Myanmar, including those on accountability, and on progress in the situation of human rights
in Myanmar, including of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, submitted to the Council
at its forty-fifth session,2 and reiterating the urgency of full implementation of the
recommendations contained in both reports,
Noting the work and the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in Myanmar, while deeply regretting the continued non-cooperation of Myanmar with
the mandate and the denial of access to Myanmar since December 2017, and urging Myanmar
to extend full cooperation to the Special Rapporteur,
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A/HRC/43/18.
A/HRC/45/5.
GE.21-09892(E)