A/HRC/RES/58/20 13. Calls upon all parties to the conflict in Myanmar, in particular the Myanmar military, to immediately cease the use of anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnance, ensure that amputees are not criminalized as a result of their injuries and take urgent steps to ensure that victims and survivors have access to life-saving aid, as part of broader, urgent measures to protect the rights of persons with disabilities in situations of armed conflict; 14. Calls for the immediate and unconditional release of President Win Myint, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and all those who have been arbitrarily detained, charged, arrested, convicted or sentenced on specious grounds, in particular since 1 February 2021, including government officials and politicians, human rights defenders, journalists and other media workers, civil society representatives, legal practitioners, religious and community leaders, healthcare workers, aid workers, academics, teachers, local and foreign advisers and members of student unions and trade unions, and for the military to refrain from future reprisals against released detainees; 15. Also calls for an end to the unjustified use of military tribunals to try civilians and for the right to a fair trial, which includes the right to a public trial by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law, the presumption of innocence, the prohibition of being tried or punished again for offences of which one has already been convicted or acquitted, the right to be brought promptly before a judge to exercise judicial power, the right to be present at trial and to review of one’s sentence or conviction by a higher tribunal according to law, and the right to adequate time and facilities to prepare a defence, and recalls the absolute prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; 16. Further calls for the Myanmar military to fully respect and protect the human rights of all persons in Myanmar, including Rohingya and other persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, to refrain from excessive use of force, to exercise the utmost restraint and to seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis, recalling that the Myanmar military has a responsibility to respect democratic principles and is obliged to respect the rule of law and human rights, in accordance with international human rights law; 17. Expresses grave concern at continuing serious human rights violations and abuses by the military and security forces, as well as violations of international humanitarian law in Myanmar, notably against Rohingya and other persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, including those involving arbitrary arrests, deaths in detention, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the deliberate killing and maiming of children, the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, including as human shields, as well as for child labour and forced labour, the use of schools and universities for military purposes in contravention of international law, attacks on schools and universities, hospitals and houses of worship and protected persons in relation to schools, hospitals and houses of worship, indiscriminate shelling in civilian areas, the destruction and burning of homes, the deprivation of economic, social and cultural rights, the forced displacement of more than 923,000 Rohingya and other persons belonging to minorities to Bangladesh, trafficking in persons, forced labour and rape, sexual exploitation and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence; 18. Also expresses grave concern at human rights violations and abuses against Rohingya, including in conflict settings, and at the reported forced recruitment of Rohingya and other persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities by the Myanmar military and other armed groups; 19. Calls upon the Myanmar military to immediately cease all air strikes, the use of anti-personnel landmines and the use of arson attacks, and condemns in the strongest terms the various attacks and killings that have ended civilian lives all across Myanmar, as well as any attacks directed against civilians and civilian infrastructure, and indiscriminate attacks; 20. Condemns in the strongest terms the indiscriminate attacks against children by the Myanmar military, and calls upon all parties, in particular the Myanmar military, to end violations and abuses against children, including the six grave violations against children during armed conflict, to ensure accountability for these violations and abuses, to guarantee protection to all children in armed conflict, including by stopping and preventing their recruitment into armed forces and ensuring the immediate and safe release of those who have 8

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