Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar

Condemnatory

Yes

Analysis

• This resolution strongly condemns “all violations and abuses of human rights” attributed to Myanmar’s military and calls on Myanmar to “end immediately all violence and all violations of international law.” It also welcomes a July 2022 order by the International Court of Justice rejecting Myanmar's challenge to the court's jurisdiction and recalls the court's January 2020 order for provisional measures finding that there is "a real and imminent risk of irreperable prejudice to the rights of the Rohingya in Myanmar" to be protected from genocide.

Main Sponsors

Organization of Islamic Cooperation

Vote

Consensus

Key Praise

None

Key Criticism

• "Expresses its grave concern at continuing reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in Myanmar, in particular against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including those involving arbitrary arrests, deaths in detention, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment…"
• "Strongly condemns all violations and abuses of human rights in Myanmar, before and after the military coup, including those related to and following the declaration of the state of emergency on 1 February 2021, and calls upon Myanmar to end immediately all violence and violations of international law in the country, to ensure full protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons in Myanmar, including Rohingya Muslims and other minorities…"
• "Expresses grave concern at the forcible conscription of Rohingya Muslims by the Myanmar Armed Forces and other armed actors…"
• "Expresses deep concern that, despite the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice on 23 January 2020, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, including women and children, continue to suffer from targeted killings, indiscriminate violence and serious injuries, including by means of indiscriminate fire, airstrikes, shelling, burning, landmines and unexploded ordnance."
• "Calls upon Myanmar to end immediately all violence and all violations of international law in the country, to ensure the protection of the human rights of all persons in Myanmar, including Rohingya Muslims and persons belonging to other minorities, and to take all measures necessary to provide justice and reparations to victims…"
• "Calls upon Myanmar to make serious efforts to eliminate statelessness among and the systematic and institutionalized discrimination against members of ethnic and religious minorities, in particular Rohingya Muslims, by, inter alia, repealing and replacing the 1982 Citizenship Law…"
• "Expresses its deep concern over the lack of progress by the Myanmar Armed Forces in the implementation of the five-point consensus of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…"
• "Expresses grave concern at the increasing restrictions on humanitarian access, in particular in Rakhine, Chin, Kachin, Shan, Kayah and Kayin States, and calls upon Myanmar to ensure full respect for international humanitarian law and to allow the full, safe and unhindered access of humanitarian personnel to all areas in Myanmar…"