A/HRC/RES/56/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 July 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-sixth session
18 June–12 July 2024
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 10 July 2024
56/1.
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 78/219 of 19 December 2023 and
Council resolutions 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, 52/31 of 4 April 2023, 53/26 of 14 July 2023 and 55/20 of 4 April 2024,
as well as Council decision 36/115 of 29 September 2017,
Recalling also 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 submitted to the Human Rights Council at its forty-third
session1 and on the implementation of the recommendations of the independent international
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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