United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/230
Distr.: General
27 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 109 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/556/Add.3)]
57/230. Situation of human rights in the Sudan
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect
human rights and fundamental freedoms and the duty to fulfil the obligations that
they have undertaken under the various international instruments in this field,
Mindful that the Sudan 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 the African Charter on Human
and Peoples’ Rights 3 and the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 on the
protection of the victims of war, 4
Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in the
Sudan, and taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/16 of
19 April 2002, 5
Taking note of Security Council resolution 1372 (2001) of 28 September 2001,
Noting with appreciation the recent developments in the peace talks led by the
Intergovernmental Authority on Development, and expressing its firm belief that
human rights should become a key element in the peace talks in view of the link
between sustainable peace and respect for human rights,
1.
Welcomes:
(a) The Machakos Protocol of 20 July 2002 and the announcement that both
parties have agreed to a cessation of hostilities in all areas following the signature of
the memorandum of understanding between the Government of the Sudan and the
Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement on the resumption of negotiations on
peace in the Sudan, the agreement on procedures for the unimpeded access of
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1
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Resolution 44/25, annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1520, No. 26363.
4
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
5
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No. 3 (E/2002/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
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