United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/42/L.21/Rev.1
Distr.: Limited
25 September 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-second session
9–27 September 2019
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
Australia, Austria, Belgium,* Bulgaria, Canada,* Croatia, Cyprus,* Czechia,
Denmark, Estonia,* Finland,* France,* Germany,* Greece,* Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland,* Italy, Latvia,* Lithuania,* Luxembourg,* Malta,* Monaco,* Montenegro,*
Netherlands,* New Zealand,* North Macedonia,* Norway,* Pakistan,** Peru,
Poland,* Portugal,* Romania,* Slovakia, Slovenia,* Spain, Sweden,* United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and State of Palestine:* draft resolution
42/… 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 73/264 of 22 December 2018 and
Council resolutions 40/29 of 22 March 2019, 39/2 of 27 September 2018, 37/32 of 23
March 2018, 34/22 of 24 March 2017, 29/21 of 3 July 2015, S-27/1 of 5 December 2017
and Council decision 36/115 of 29 September 2017,
Welcoming the work and the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in Myanmar, while deeply regretting the decision of the Government of
Myanmar to discontinue cooperation with the Special Rapporteur and to deny her access to
the country since January 2018,
Welcoming also the work of the Special Envoy on Myanmar, and encouraging her
further engagement and dialogue with the Government of Myanmar,
* 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.19-16420(E)