Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005  [on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.3 and Corr.1)]  60/173. Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s   Republic of Korea        The General Assembly,    Reaffirming that States Members of the United Nations have an obligation  to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the  obligations that they have undertaken under the various international  instruments,     Mindful that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a party to the  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,1 the International Covenant on  Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,1 the Convention on the Rights of the Child2  and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against  Women,3     Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2003/10 of 16 April 2003,4  2004/13 of 15 April 20045 and 2005/11 of 14 April 2005,6    Recalling in particular that, in its resolution 2005/11, the Commission on  Human Rights urged the General Assembly to take up the question of the  situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea if the  Government did not extend cooperation to the Special Rapporteur of the  Commission on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s  Republic of Korea and if no improvement of the situation of human rights in the  country was observed,    Taking note of the report of the Special Rapporteur,7  _______________  1 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.  2 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.  3 Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.  4 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 3 (E/2003/23), chap. II,  sect. A.  5 Ibid., 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II, sect. A.  6 Ibid., 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum (E/2005/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.  7 See A/60/306.   A/RES/60/173  2    1.  Expresses its serious concern at:     (a)  The refusal of the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of  Korea to recognize the mandate of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on  Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic  of Korea or to extend cooperation to him;    (b)  Continuing reports of systemic, widespread and grave violations of  human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including:    (i)  Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,  public executions, extrajudicial and arbitrary detention, the absence of due  process and the rule of law, the imposition of the death penalty for political  reasons, the existence of a large number of prison camps and the extensive use  of forced labour;    (ii) Sanctions imposed on citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of  Korea who have been repatriated from abroad, such as treating their departure  as treason, leading to punishments of internment, torture, cruel, inhuman or  degrading treatment or the death penalty;    (iii) All-pervasive and severe restrictions on the freedoms of thought,  conscience, religion, opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and  association, and on equal access to information and limitations imposed on  every person who wishes to move freely within the country and travel  abroad;    (iv) Continuing violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of  women, in particular the trafficking of women for the purpose of prostitution  or forced marriage, forced abortions, and infanticide of children of repatriated  mothers, including in police detention centres and camps;    (v)  Unresolved questions relating to the abduction of foreigners in the form  of an enforced disappearance;    2.  Expresses its concern that the Government of the Democratic People’s  Republic of Korea has not engaged in technical cooperation activities with the  United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and her Office, despite  efforts by the High Commissioner to engage in a dialogue with the authorities of the  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in this regard;    3.  Expresses its deep concern at the precarious humanitarian situation in the  country, in particular the prevalence of infant malnutrition, which still affects the  physical and mental development of a significant proportion of children;    4.  Urges the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in  this regard, to ensure that humanitarian organizations, including non-governmental  organizations and United Nations organizations, in particular the World Food  Programme, have full, free, safe and unimpeded access to all parts of the  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea so that they may ensure that humanitarian  assistance is delivered impartially on the basis of need in accordance with  humanitarian principles, this concern having been aggravated by the announcement  by the authorities of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of their intention  not to accept humanitarian assistance from January 2006;   A/RES/60/173  3    5.  Also urges the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of  Korea to respect fully all human rights and fundamental freedoms and, in this  regard, to implement fully the measures set out in the above-mentioned resolutions  of the Commission on Human Rights, in particular full cooperation with the Special  Rapporteur.