A/HRC/39/L.22
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: Limited
25 September 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-ninth session
10–28 September 2018
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
Albania,* Andorra,* Australia, Austria,* Belgium, Bulgaria,* Canada,* Croatia,
Cyprus,* Czechia,* Denmark,* Estonia,* Finland,* France,* Germany, Greece,*
Hungary, Iceland, Ireland,* Italy,* Latvia,* Liechtenstein,* Lithuania,*
Luxembourg,* Malta,* Monaco,* Montenegro,* Netherlands,* New Zealand,*
Norway,* Pakistan,† Poland,* Portugal,* Romania,* Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden,* the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,* Ukraine, United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland: draft resolution
39/… 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 Right of the Child, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 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 72/248 of 24 December 2017 and
Council resolutions 29/21 of 3 July 2015, 34/22 of 24 March 2017, S-27/1 of 5 December
2017 and 37/32 of 23 March 2018, and Council decision 36/115 of 29 September 2017,
Welcoming the work of the independent international fact-finding mission on
Myanmar and its oral updates to the Human Rights Council, while deeply regretting that the
Government of Myanmar has not cooperated with the fact-finding mission, and urging the
Government to grant it full, unrestricted and unmonitored access to all areas and
interlocutors,
Welcoming also the work and the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation
of human rights in Myanmar, deeply regretting the decision of the Government of
* State not a member of the Human Rights Council.
†
On behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation.
GE.18-15614(E)