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” in Myanmar and calls on Myanmar to “end immediately all violence and violations of international law.”
• It expresses grave concern over continuing abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including killings, torture, arbitrary detention, forced conscription, and systematic discrimination, as well as restrictions on humanitarian access. It also expresses deep concern that serious abuses against the Rohingya continue despite the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice in 2020.
• Myanmar opposed the resolution, further indicating its condemnatory nature.

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, in particular the Arakan Army…"
• "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 combat incitement to hatred and hate speech against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, online and offline, by publicly condemning such acts and enacting necessary anti-hate speech and crime laws…"
• "Further calls upon Myanmar to protect the rights of all children, including Rohingya children, to acquire citizenship in order to eliminate statelessness, in accordance with the obligations of Myanmar under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to ensure the protection of all children in armed conflict and to end the recruitment and use of children in forced labour…"
• "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, 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…"