A/HRC/RES/S-27/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 December 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-seventh special session
5 December 2017
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 5 December 2017
S-27/1. 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 and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and their
Optional Protocols, as well as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination and other relevant international human rights law,
Recalling the General Assembly resolutions on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar, and the most recent text adopted by the Third Committee on 16 November
2017,1 as well as those of the Human Rights Council, the most recent of which being
resolution 34/22 of 24 March 2017, in which the Council decided to dispatch urgently an
independent international fact-finding mission to establish the facts and circumstances of
the alleged recent human rights violations and abuses, and Council decision 36/115 of 29
September 2017, in which the Council extended the mandate of the fact-finding mission
until its thirty-ninth session, and reaffirming Council resolution 29/21 of 3 July 2015,
Recalling also the statement by the President of the Security Council of 6 November
2017,2
Stressing that States have the primary responsibility for the respect, promotion and
protection of human rights,
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,
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See A/72/439/Add.3 (forthcoming).
S/PRST/2017/22.
GE.17-21977(E)