A/HRC/RES/43/26
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 July 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 22 June 2020
43/26.
Situation of human rights in Myanmar
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, and reaffirming all relevant Human
Rights Council and General Assembly resolutions and decisions on the situation of human
rights in Myanmar, the most recent being Assembly resolution 74/246 of 27 December 2019
and Council resolutions S-27/1 of 5 December 2017, 37/32 of 9 April 2018, 39/2 of 27
September 2018, 40/29 of 22 March 2019 and 42/3 of 26 September 2019,
Welcoming the work and the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in Myanmar, including her report submitted to the Human Rights Council at its
forty-third session,1 while deeply regretting the ongoing non-cooperation of the Government
of Myanmar with the Special Rapporteur and the denial of access to Myanmar since
December 2017,
Welcoming also the work of the independent international fact-finding mission on
Myanmar and in particular its final report2 and its detailed findings,3
Welcoming further the conclusions on Myanmar of the Working Group on Children
and Armed Conflict of the Security Council,4 and noting the concern expressed by the
Working Group about the grave violations committed against children,
Welcoming the work of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar,
established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 39/2, to collect, consolidate,
preserve and analyse evidence of the most serious international crimes and violations of
international law committed in Myanmar since 2011, in particular in Rakhine, Kachin and
Shan States, making use of the information handed over by the independent international
fact-finding mission, and to prepare files in order to facilitate and expedite fair and
independent criminal proceedings, in accordance with international law standards, in
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A/HRC/43/59.
A/HRC/42/50.
See conference room paper A/HRC/42/CRP.5, available from
www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/MyanmarFFM/Pages/ReportHRC42thSession.aspx.
S/AC.51/2019/2.
GE.20-08892(E)