United Nations General Assembly A/RES/58/247 Distr.: General 11 March 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 117 (c) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/508/Add.3)] 58/247. Situation of human rights in Myanmar The General Assembly, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights 2 and other human rights instruments, Reaffirming that all States Members of the United Nations have an obligation to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the obligations they have undertaken under the various international instruments in the field, Aware that Myanmar is a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 5 and the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the protection of victims of war, 6 as well as the Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, 1930 (Convention No. 29) and the Convention concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, 1948 (Convention No. 87), of the International Labour Organization, Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 1460 (2003) of 30 January 2003 on children and armed conflict and the report of the Secretary-General pursuant thereto, 7 Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, the most recent of which is resolution 57/231 of 18 December 2002, those of the Commission on Human Rights, the most recent of which is resolution 2003/12 of 16 April 2003, 8 and resolution I _______________ 1 Resolution 217 A (III). Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 3 Resolution 44/25, annex. 4 Resolution 34/180, annex. 5 Resolution 260 A (III). 6 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973. 7 A/58/546-S/2003/1053 and Corr.1. 8 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 3 (E/2003/23), chap. II, sect. A. 2 03 50934