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contributions, and encourages contributions to the Special Fund established by the Optional
Protocol to the Convention to help finance the implementation of the recommendations
made by the Subcommittee on Prevention, as well as education programmes of national
preventive mechanisms;
13.
Calls upon all Governments, the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights and United Nations bodies and agencies, as well as relevant
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to commemorate, on 26 June, the
United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, as proclaimed by the
General Assembly in its resolution 52/149 of 12 December 1997;
14.
Decides to continue to consider this matter in conformity with its annual
programme of work.
47th meeting
25 March 2011
[Adopted without a vote.]
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights,
and reaffirming also previous resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, the Human
Rights Council and the General Assembly on the situation of human rights in Myanmar,
including Council resolutions 10/27 of 27 March 2009, 12/20 of 2 October 2009 and 13/25
of 26 March 2010, and General Assembly resolutions 64/238 of 24 December 2009 and
65/241 of 24 December 2010,
Welcoming the work of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar, taking note of his latest report,29 in which he urges the implementation of the
recommendations contained therein and those within previous reports, concerned about the
lack of implementation of previous recommendations and regretting that no visit of the
Special Rapporteur has been allowed to the country since February 2010,
Increasingly concerned that the urgent calls contained in the above-mentioned
resolutions and reports and in those of other United Nations bodies concerning the human
rights situation in Myanmar have still not been met, and emphasizing the urgent need for
significant progress towards meeting the calls of the international community,
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 or her
duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Reaffirming that it is the responsibility of the Government of Myanmar to ensure the
full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of the entire population of the
country, as stated in the Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other
applicable human rights instruments,
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