A/RES/79/182
Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other
minorities in Myanmar
11. Expresses deep concern that, despite the provisional measures ordered by
the International Court of Justice on 23 January 2020 in the case of The Gambia
v. Myanmar, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, including women and children, are not
protected and continue to suffer from discrimination, targeted killings, indiscriminate
violence and serious injuries, including by indiscriminate fire, shelling, landmines or
unexploded ordnance;
12. Urges Myanmar, in accordance with the order of the International Court
of Justice, 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 its order;
13. Expresses grave concern over the increasing restrictions on humanitarian
access in all conflict areas across Myanmar, including in Rakhine and Chin States and
Sagaing and Magway Regions, as well as the limited steps taken to ensure access to
healthcare for Rohingya, and calls upon all parties, in particular the Myanmar
military, to respect international humanitarian law and to allow rapid, full, safe and
unhindered access to all humanitarian actors in order to reach all those in need,
including Rohingya Muslims;
14. Urges Myanmar to cooperate fully with and grant immediate, full,
unrestricted and unmonitored access to all United Nations mandate holders and
human rights mechanisms, including the Special Envoy of the Secretary -General on
Myanmar, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, the United
Nations country task force on monitoring and reporting grave violations committed
against children, the Independent Mechanism for Myanmar and relevant United
Nations agencies, and international and regional human rights bodies to
independently monitor the situation of human rights and to ensure that individuals
can cooperate without hindrance with these mechanisms and without fea r of reprisal,
intimidation or attack, and expresses deep concern that international access to
affected areas of northern Rakhine State and other areas affected by violence remains
severely restricted for the international community, including for United N ations
agencies, humanitarian actors and international media;
15. Calls upon the United Nations to ensure that the Independent Mechanism
for Myanmar is afforded the flexibility that it needs in terms of staffing, location and
operational freedom so that it can deliver as effectively as possible on its mandate,
and be able to brief Member States on its activities, and urges Myanmar, Member
States, judicial authorities and private entities to cooperate fully with the Mechanism,
including by granting it access, including access to witnesses where applicable, and
by providing it with every assistance in the execution of its mandate;
16. Expresses grave concern at the potential retraumatization of survivors of
human rights violations and abuses, particularly child survivors and sexual violence
survivors, and calls upon all actors engaging in documentation to follow the “do no
harm” principle for evidence-gathering in order to respect the dignity of survivors
and to avoid retraumatization, and calls for fully addressing the needs of victims and
survivors and their right to effective remedy, including through prompt, effective and
independent casualty recording and guarantees of non-recurrence;
17. Underlines the importance of consulting with survivors and families of
victims, including Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, and including them in
advancing justice and accountability, as appropriate;
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