A/RES/75/238
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 January 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 72 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs
and representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 31 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/478/Add.3, para. 39)]
75/238.
Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other
minorities in Myanmar
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights 2 and other relevant
international law and human rights law instruments,
Recalling that States have the primary responsibility to respect, protect and fulfil
human rights,
Reaffirming its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar, the most recent of which being resolutions 74/246 of 27 December 2019,
73/264 of 22 December 2018 and 72/248 of 24 December 2017, and recalling the
resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council, the most recent of which
being resolutions 43/26 of 22 June 2020, 3 42/3 of 26 September 2019, 4 39/2 of
27 September 2018, 5 37/32 of 23 March 2018 6 and S-27/1 of 5 December 2017, 7 the
presidential statement issued by the Security Council on 6 November 2017 8 and the
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI).
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/75/53),
chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/74/53/Add.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/73/53/Add.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., chap. III.
S/PRST/2017/22; see Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 2017 (S/INF/72).
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