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29.
Stresses the need to effectively address the root causes of human rights
violations and abuses against persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, including
Rohingya, reiterates the importance of the full implementation of all recommendations made
by the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, including those on access to citizenship,
freedom of movement, the elimination of systematic segregation and all forms of
discrimination and inclusive and equal access to health services, education, livelihood
opportunities, basic services and birth registration, in full consultation with all ethnic and
religious minority groups, including Rohingya, and persons in vulnerable situations, as well
as civil society;
30.
Also stresses the need to expedite efforts to eliminate statelessness and
systematic and institutionalized discrimination against members of ethnic and religious
minorities, in particular relating to Rohingya, by, inter alia, reviewing and reforming the 1982
Citizenship Law, which has led to the deprivation of human rights, complete
disenfranchisement and forced displacement, by ensuring equal access to full citizenship
through a transparent, voluntary and accessible procedure and to all civil and political rights
by allowing for self-identification, amending or repealing all discriminatory legislation and
policies, including discriminatory provisions of the set of “protection of race and religion”
laws enacted in 2015, covering religious conversion, interfaith marriage, monogamy and
population control, and by lifting all local orders restricting rights to freedom of movement
and access to civil registration, health and education services and livelihoods;
31.
Further stresses the need to restore full citizenship status and related civil and
political rights of Rohingya and other ethnic and religious minorities, including voting rights
and their free and fair participation in elections and other democratic processes, to combat
the incitement of hatred and hate speech against Rohingya and persons belonging to other
minorities, online and offline, and to publicly condemn such acts and combat hate speech,
misinformation and disinformation;
32.
Calls for the establishment of conditions that would allow for the voluntary,
safe, dignified and sustainable return of internally displaced persons to their places of origin
or places of their choosing and for a guarantee of unrestricted humanitarian access to persons
in need, including all internally displaced persons, throughout the country, in full consultation
with the persons concerned and the local population, and in consultation also with the United
Nations system and relevant civil society organizations, and encourages efforts to ensure
consultation with and the representation of women at all levels of decision-making relating
to the camp-closure strategy and its implementation;
33.
Calls upon all parties, in particular the Myanmar military, to ensure full respect
for international humanitarian law and to allow and facilitate free, unhindered access to the
entire country for local and international staff members of humanitarian and other relevant
international agencies, including in order to properly assess needs and to allow for the
unhindered procurement of the necessary supplies and equipment, to repeal the so-called
Organization Registration Law, which hampers the delivery of humanitarian assistance, to
cease any penalization of individuals and organizations under this framework and to respect
and protect humanitarian personnel, including medical personnel, facilities, transport and
equipment so that humanitarian organizations are able to offer principled and inclusive
humanitarian assistance, including age-, disability- and gender-responsive assistance, to all
persons in need, including internally displaced persons;
34. Expresses deep sympathy to all the victims and survivors of the March 2025
earthquakes, which resulted in mass casualties, injuries and significant destruction of
infrastructure, welcomes the aid provided to date, urges the further provision of principled
humanitarian aid to all in need, including through organizations already operating in affected
areas, in line with the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and
independence, and calls upon the Myanmar military and other parties to cease all hostilities
and to facilitate full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access to all victims and
survivors in all affected regions;
35.
Condemns the suspension and obstruction by the Myanmar military of
humanitarian access to affected areas of Myanmar after Typhoon Yagi and to Rakhine State
after Cyclone Mocha, and expresses deep concern that international access to Rakhine State,
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