Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar A/RES/79/182 Reiterating the urgent need to ensure that all those responsible for crimes related to violations and abuses of international law throughout Myanmar, including international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law, are held to account through credible and independent national, regional or international justice mechanisms, while recalling the authority of the Security Council in this regard, Expressing deep concern that, in Rakhine, more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims remain largely segregated and discriminated against with respect to accessing citizenship and enjoying their human rights and fundamental freedoms, a large number of whom remain confined in camps with n o freedom of movement and grossly restricted access to basic services, including food, health and psychosocial care and education, as well as livelihoods, Expressing its concern that Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, in particular women and girls, remain at significant risk of sexual and gender -based violence, notably in the context of the continued conflict between the Myanmar security and armed forces and the Arakan Army, Continuing to underline the need for the Myanmar military and other armed groups to cease all actions that run counter to the protection of all persons within the country, including those belonging to the Rohingya community, by respecting international law, including international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and ending violence, including sexual and gender-based violence, and calling for urgent steps to ensure justice in respect of all human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law so that those displaced by violence are able to voluntarily return in safety and dignity to their places of origin or to a place of their choice in a sustainable manner, Alarmed at the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in Myanmar, the continued attacks on medical and humanitarian personnel, the lack of basic healthcare and lifesaving assistance, and the denial of safe, rapid and unhindered humanitarian access, and calling for all parties to the conflict, in particular the Myanmar military, to abide by international law, including international humanitarian law, in this matter, and to enable humanitarian actors to deliver humanitarian aid consistent with the humanitarian principles of humanity, independence, neutrality and impartiality, Noting with deep concern that the lack of sufficient humanitarian access, especially to food, in particular to areas with internally displaced persons and to the areas from which many people have been and continue to be forcibly displaced and in which many others, such as Rohingya Muslims, are living in precarious conditions is exacerbating the humanitarian crisis, which may lead to hunger-induced displacement and more influx to Bangladesh, Calling upon all parties, including the Myanmar military and other armed actors, to allow full, safe, timely and unhindered humanitarian access for international humanitarian agencies, medical personnel and aid workers, Expressing its deep concern at the lack of access given to the International Committee of the Red Cross to prisons and other places of detention, which has grave consequences on the ability of families to be informed about the health and conditions of prisoners, as well as on prisoners’ access to necessary healthcare, Reiterating its deep distress at reports that unarmed individuals in Rakhine State have been subjected to the excessive use of force and to violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law by the Myanmar military, including those involving extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings, systematic rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and government seizure of Rohingya lands from 24-24224 7/18