A/HRC/RES/40/29 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 11 April 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Fortieth session 25 February–22 March 2019 Agenda item 4 Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 22 March 2019 40/29. Situation of human rights in Myanmar The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, and reaffirming all relevant Human Rights Council and General Assembly resolutions and decisions on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, the most recent being Assembly resolution 73/264 of 22 December 2018 and Council resolutions S-27/1 of 5 December 2017, 37/32 of 9 April 2018 and 39/2 of 27 September 2018, Welcoming the work and the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, including the report submitted to the Council at its fortieth session,1 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 independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar and the decision by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 39/2 to extend the mandate of the fact-finding mission until the ongoing independent mechanism is operational to ensure that the large and continually increasing amount of evidence of human rights violations and abuses it has collected is fully documented, verified, consolidated and preserved in order for the material to be effectively shared, accessed and used by the mechanism, while deeply regretting that the Government of Myanmar has to date refused cooperation with the fact-finding mission, Calling for the expeditious entry into operation of the ongoing independent mechanism, established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 39/2 to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence of the most serious international crimes and violations of international law committed in Myanmar since 2011, and to prepare files in order to facilitate and expedite fair and independent criminal proceedings, in accordance with international law standards, in national, regional or international courts or tribunals that have, or may in the future have, jurisdiction over these crimes, in accordance with international law, 1 A/HRC/40/68. GE.19-06122(E) 