United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/65/225
Distr.: General
18 March 2011
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 68 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/456/Add.3)]
65/225. 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
Noting the universal periodic review of the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea by the Human Rights Council, in December 2009, and hoping that the review
will encourage the engagement of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in
international cooperative efforts in the field of human rights so as to contribute to
improving the situation of human rights in the country,
Recalling the concluding observations of the treaty-monitoring bodies under
the four treaties to which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a party,
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,
Noting the decision on the resumption, on a modest scale, of the activities of
the United Nations Development Programme in the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea, and encouraging the engagement of the Government with the international
community to ensure that the programmes benefit the persons in need of assistance,
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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.
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