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been recruited, and to provide survivors with access to adequate assistance, including access
to education and psychosocial and mental health support, justice and reparations;
21.
Calls upon the Myanmar military to cease the arbitrary and unlawful arrest and
detention of children, to release immediately and unconditionally all children detained in
interrogation centres and prisons and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration into their
families and communities;
22.
Also calls upon the Myanmar military to cease targeting Myanmar citizens
outside of Myanmar for exercising their right to freedom of expression, including through
the cancellation of passports, surveillance and harassment, and threats to and reprisals against
family members remaining in Myanmar;
23.
Calls upon all parties to the conflict in Myanmar, in particular the Myanmar
military, to immediately end violence, including sexual and gender-based violence, and all
violations of international law, including of international human rights law and international
humanitarian law, and human rights abuses in Myanmar, to hold perpetrators of violations
and abuses accountable, including in independent and impartial domestic accountability
processes ensuring justice and reparations to victims and survivors, to respect and protect
civilians, to allow humanitarian access to affected populations, to show restraint, to cease the
conflict and to show readiness to re-engage in dialogue and constitutional reform;
24.
Also calls upon all parties to the conflict in Myanmar, in particular the
Myanmar military, to cease, investigate and prosecute, where appropriate, all attacks on
schools, universities and other education facilities, and attacks against students, teachers and
education personnel, in contravention of international humanitarian law, and to mitigate and
avoid the use of schools by armed forces, as appropriate, including through the
implementation of Security Council resolution 2601 (2021) of 29 October 2021, noting in
this regard the relevance of the Safe Schools Declaration, and by taking measures, such as
considering implementing the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from
Military Use during Armed Conflict, and ensuring safe, non-violent, inclusive, effective and
enabling learning environments and quality education for all;
25.
Calls upon the Myanmar military to cease targeting trade union leaders and
members for exercising their right to freedom of association, including through the use of
arbitrary arrests, detention, torture, intimidation, the surveillance of workers negotiating
wage increases and the deprivation of basic civil liberties, due legal process and institutional
recourse, and to fully cooperate with the International Labour Organization and the
Commission of Inquiry for Myanmar and implement its recommendations without delay;2
26.
Expresses deep concern at the enforcement by the Myanmar military of forced
conscription for all men aged 18 to 35 years and women aged 18 to 27 years, and at reports
that the Myanmar military, in order to coerce them to join its ranks, has abducted individuals,
threatened communities with burning their villages and offered money, food and citizenship
to Rohingya youths and threatened them with punishment;
27.
Urges all parties in Myanmar to ensure the full, equal, safe and meaningful
participation of all women, including Rohingya women and women belonging to other
minorities, in promoting social cohesion across different communities and in all decisionmaking processes related to conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding;
28.
Urges Myanmar, in accordance with the order of the International Court of
Justice of 23 January 2020 in relation to Rohingya in its territory, to take all measures within
its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of article 2 of the Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to ensure that its military and
any irregular armed units that may be directed or supported by it and any organizations and
persons that may be subject to its control, direction or influence do not commit, inter alia,
any such acts, to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence and to report
to the Court as ordered on all measures taken to give effect to the order;
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International Labour Organization, Towards Freedom and Dignity in Myanmar (October 2023).
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