United Nations General Assembly A/RES/57/231 Distr.: General 28 February 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 109 (c) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/556/Add.3)] 57/231. 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 Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 on the protection of the victims of war, 5 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, Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, the most recent of which is resolution 56/231 of 24 December 2001, and those of the Commission on Human Rights, the most recent of which is resolution 2002/67 of 25 April 2002, 6 Recalling resolution I adopted by the International Labour Conference at its eighty-eighth session, on 14 June 2000, concerning the practice of forced or compulsory labour in Myanmar, _______________ 1 Resolution 217 A (III). Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 3 Resolution 44/25, annex. 4 Resolution 34/180, annex. 5 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973. 6 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No. 3 (E/2002/23), chap. II, sect. A. 2 02 55443