A/RES/72/248
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 24 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.3)]
72/248.
Situation of human rights 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 the Convention on
the Rights of the Child 3 and other relevant international law and human rights law
instruments,
Noting the importance of the role of regional organizations in efforts to achieve
pacific settlement of local disputes, as stipulated in Chapter VIII of the Charter,
Reaffirming its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in Myanmar,
the most recent of which being resolution 70/233 of 23 December 2015, and the
resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council, the most recent of which being
resolution 34/22 of 24 March 2017 4 and decision 36/115 of 29 September 2017, 5
Welcoming the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council
on the situation of human rights in Myanmar 6 and the access granted to her during her
visits to Myanmar in January 2017 and July 2017,
Expressing grave concern at the recent reports of serious human rights
violations and abuses in Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine State, as well as in Kachin
and northern Shan States,
Highly alarmed at the outbreak of violence in Rakhine State in August 2017 that
has caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingya civilians to flee towards Bangladesh,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/72/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. IV.
A/72/382.
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