A/HRC/RES/46/21
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 March 2021
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-sixth session
22 February–24 March 2021
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 24 March 2021
46/21.
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 75/238 of 31 December 2020
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, 42/3 of 26 September 2019 and 43/26 of 22 June
2020,
Welcoming the Security Council statement on the situation in Myanmar of 4 February
2021, the statement by the President of the Security Council on Myanmar of 10 March 2021, 1
the meetings of the Security Council held on 2 February and 5 March 2021 and the briefing
convened by the General Assembly with the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on
Myanmar on 26 February 2021,
Recalling its resolution S-29/1, adopted by the Human Rights Council at its special
session on the human rights implications of the crisis in Myanmar, held on 12 February 2021,
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, political independence,
territorial integrity and unity of Myanmar,
Condemning in the strongest terms the deposition of the elected civilian Government
by the Myanmar armed forces on 1 February 2021,
Condemning in the strongest terms also the declaration of the state of emergency, the
suspension of the parliament and the arbitrary detention and arrest of President Win Myint,
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, other government officials and politicians, human rights
defenders, journalists, civil society members, local and foreign advisers and others,
Expressing deep concern at attacks against and arrests and harassment of journalists
and media workers and the restrictions on and interruptions to the Internet and social media,
which unnecessarily and disproportionately restrict the right to freedom of opinion and
expression, including the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and the right to
freedom of association,
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S/PRST/2021/5.
GE.21-04155(E)