A/HRC/RES/53/26
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 July 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-third session
19 June–14 July 2023
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 14 July
2023
53/26.
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 Rights of the Child, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other relevant international human
rights law,
Recalling relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights
Council, the most recent being Assembly resolution 77/227 of 15 December 2022 and
Council resolutions 29/21 of 3 July 2015, 34/22 of 24 March 2017, S-27/1 of 5 December
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, 47/1 of 12 July 2021,
49/23 of 1 April 2022, 50/3 of 7 July 2022 and 52/31 of 4 April 2023, 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 session1 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 the 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
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A/HRC/43/18.
A/HRC/45/5.
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