A/HRC/RES/22/13 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 9 April 2013 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-second session Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 22/13. Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other human rights instruments, Recalling all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including Council resolution 19/13 of 22 March 2012 and Assembly resolution 67/181 of 20 December 2012, and urging the implementation of those resolutions, 2006, Bearing in mind paragraph 3 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Council, and 5/2, on the code of conduct for special procedures mandate holders of the Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto, Recalling also the statement made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 14 January 2013 calling for a full-fledged international inquiry into serious crimes in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Welcoming the reports submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and taking note of the nine patterns of human rights violations identified in his recent report,1  The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of 1 GE.13-12865 the Council on its twenty-second session (A/HRC/22/2), chap. I. A/HRC/22/57.