Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar - Report of the Secretary-General (A/78/278)

UN Document
Source UN GA
Posted 31 Aug 2023

Seventy-eighth session
Item 73 (c) of the provisional agenda*
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives

Summary

The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 77/227 and covers the period from 15 August 2022 to 14 August 2023. In addition to the human rights situation of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, the report focuses on the continued deterioration of the political, humanitarian and security situation in Myanmar following the military takeover in February 2021, including further restrictions of human rights and the worsening of socioeconomic conditions. There is an urgent need for safe, full and unhindered humanitarian access to vulnerable communities in line with international principles. That urgency has been compounded by the devastation caused by Cyclone Mocha in May 2023. The report highlights the continued brutal repression by the military. Thousands have been killed since February 2021, including children, with reports of increased sexual and gender-based violence committed by the military while civic space continues to shrink. The multifaceted crisis in Myanmar continues to yield serious regional implications, including displacement and the proliferation of illicit activities. Since February 2021, more than 64,000 people have fled and remain outside of Myanmar. More than 1.6 million people have been internally displaced. Rohingya people remained displaced domestically and abroad, including nearly 1 million Rohingya in Bangladesh. While peaceful opposition to the military persisted, armed resistance expanded, adding to an already precarious situation. There has been no meaningful action by the military to address the root causes that led to the forced displacement of the Rohingya population. The United Nations will continue to stand in solidarity with the people of Myanmar and to support their democratic aspirations for an inclusive, peaceful and just society and the protection of all communities, including the Rohingya. As part of this effort, the Organization will seek to further strengthen cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations towards de-escalating the violence and reaching a sustainable political solution in line with relevant General Assembly resolutions and Security Council resolution 2669 (2022).

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအခွင့်အရေး ကာကွယ်ပေးမယ့် ကုလဆုံးဖြတ် ချက်အပေါ် ကြိုဆို

RFA
2022.11.24

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် မောင်တောမြို့နယ်မှ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များအား ၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ် စက်တင်ဘာလ ၁၃ ရက်နေ့က တွေ့ရစဉ်။Photo: RFA

နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၁၆ ရက်နေ့ အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု၊ နယူးယောက်မြို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂဌာနချုပ် မှာ ကျင်းပတဲ့ ၇၇ ကြိမ်မြောက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂညီလာခံ၊ တတိယကော်မတီ အစည်းအဝေး ကနေ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ အပါအဝင် မြန်မာနိုင် ငံမှာရှိတဲ့ လူနည်းစုတိုင်းရင်းသားတွေရဲ့ အခွင့်အရေးကို ကာကွယ်ပေးမယ့် ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်ကို မဲမခွဲဘဲ သဘောတူလိုက်ပါတယ်။

UN resolution offers a glimmer of hope for Rohingya?

Pakistan Today

OPINION
By Dr Arpita
November 24, 2022

Since the overwhelming exodus of Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh in 2017, the Rohingya problem has gained attention. To continue housing more than 1.1 million refugees in Bangladesh, however, is proving to be an incredibly challenging endeavor given the recent emergence of other national and international challenges.

A ray of light is provided, nonetheless, by the recent Rohingya resolution passed by the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee. The resolution was jointly introduced on November 18 by members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the European Union (EU), who all agreed that it was urgent to confront Myanmar’s reprehensible treatment of the Rohingya people and other minorities.

UN adopts Rohingya resolution by consensus

USA NEWS
November 16, 2022 

USANewsOnline.Com, New York : Today 16 November the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the annual resolution on the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar by consensus. The resolution, jointly tabled by the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the European Union (EU), was cosponsored by 109 countries, the highest number of countries since 2017. 

The primary focus of the resolution was the human rights situation of the Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar, including in the context of current political developments. It called upon Myanmar to address the root causes of the Rohingya crisis and create conducive environment in Rakhine to facilitate voluntary, safe and dignified return of the Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar. The resolution also called upon Myanmar to cooperate fully with the Special Envoy of the Secretary General on Myanmar and all the human rights mechanisms of the UN. The resolution recognized the important role of the regional countries and the regional organizations, such as ASEAN in addressing the political and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, and in this regard called for swift implementation of ASEAN’s 5-point consensus. The resolution noted the ongoing justice and accountability processes and welcomed the developments in the case against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice and the investigation by the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court.

UN adopts resolution on human rights of Rohingya, other minorities in Myanmar

The Daily Star 

UNB, Dhaka
Thu Nov 17, 2022 

 Reuters file photo

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution "on the situation of human rights of Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar" without a vote.

"We would like to see the increased role of the regional countries and the regional organisations in resolving the Rohingya crisis with enhanced urgency, before it turns into a regional security crisis," according to the statement of Bangladesh at the adoption of 3rd Committee Resolution on the situation of Rohingya in Myanmar.

Third Committee Approves Six Draft Resolutions, Including Texts on Human Rights in Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Crimea

United Nation
General Assembly
Third Committee

Seventy-seventh Session,

52nd & 53rd Meetings (AM & PM)

GA/SHC/4369

16 November 2022

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved six draft resolutions today, five of which focused on country-specific situations, while the last drew attention to the rising number of refugees and displaced persons in Africa.

A draft resolution on the human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol — approved by a recorded vote of 78 in favour to 14 against, with 79 abstentions — would have the Assembly condemn the ongoing temporary occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, as well as its unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဒုက္ခသည်အခြေအနေ သံအမတ်ကြီးဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်း ကုလမှာတင်ပြ

VOA

အင်ကြင်းနိုင်

၁၉ အောက်တိုဘာ၊ ၂၀၂၂

Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun presented the refugee situation in Myanmar at the UN. (October 17 2022)

စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းထားတဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတဝှမ်း နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာထွက်ပြေးကြရသူတွေအတွက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂအနေနဲ့ ကြေညာချက်တွေ ထုတ်ပြန်နေတာထက် လက်တွေ့ထိထိရောက်ရောက်အကာအကွယ်ပေးဖို့ မြန်မာအမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ် သံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်းက တိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

အောက်တိုဘာလ (၁၇)ရက်နေ့က ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေညီလာခံ တတိယကော်မတီကို တင်သွင်းခဲ့တဲ့ ပြည်တွင်းနေရပ်စွန့်ခွာသူတွေရဲ့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ အထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ် အစီရင်ခံစာအပေါ် သံအမတ်ကြီးက တုံ့ပြန်ခဲ့တာပါ။

Solve Rohingya crisis or it may fuel extremism

The Daily Star

UNB, New York
Sun Sep 25, 2022

Calling upon the United Nations to play an effective role in solving the Rohingya crisis, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned that the problem may affect the security and stability of the entire region, and beyond if it persists.

She made the call while delivering her speech in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday.

Like the previous years, she addressed the UNGA in Bangla. The theme of this year's general debate is "A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges".

Hasina said Bangladesh last month marked five years of the 2017 Rohingya mass exodus.

All countries should take in more Rohingya refugees: PM

theSundaily
24-09- 2022

NEW YORK, Sept 23 -- Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob giving his speech at the general debate of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters Friday. - BERNAMAPIX

NEW YORK: It is the responsibility of all countries to take in more Rohingya refugees to be resettled in their respective countries following the crisis in Myanmar, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

He said although Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol, the country, on humanitarian grounds, has accepted nearly 200,000 Rohingya refugees.

International community losing interest in Rohingya crisis, Turkish FM says

AA
Merve Aydogan
ANKARA
22.09.2022

Cavusoglu urges to never give up on efforts for voluntary, sustainable return of Rohingya to Myanmar

The international community is losing interest in the plight of Rohingya, the Turkish foreign minister said on Thursday, urging the international community to do more for the minority Muslims forced to flee Myanmar five years ago.

"Rohingya Muslims have been deprived of their fundamental rights and basic needs. Unfortunately, international community is losing interest to this tragedy," said Mevlut Cavusoglu during a high-level side event on the Rohingya crisis organized by Bangladesh in New York, where the 77th UN General Assembly is ongoing.

PM seeks UN’s intensified role in Rohingya repatriation

THE BUSINESS POSTS
BSS . New York
22 Sep 2022

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi holds a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel on Tuesday– BSS Photo

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has iterated her call to the international community and the United Nations to play intensified role in solving the Rohingya crisis by repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to their motherland.

The prime minister made this call while UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi paid a courtesy call on her at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel 0n Tuesday.

Not a Single Muslim Country Has Supported the US, Israel Too Treads a Delicate Line

T H E
C I T I Z E N
M.K.BHADRAKUMAR |
2 MARCH, 2022

The world community is aghast over the acute tensions between the United States and its NATO allies on one side and Russia on the other, which is poised critically on the brink of a military confrontation, the likes of which the world didn’t see in the entire Cold War era.

The shocking part is that it has become a no-holds barred struggle that is being fought tooth and claw, as hidden racial and religious prejudices lying just below the surface have welled to the surface in the Western world.

Rohingya, Justice, and Lessons from History

PV
December 2nd, 2021
Author: Progressive Voice

“The voluntary and dignified return of Rohingya will not be possible without addressing current human rights and humanitarian crisis stemming from the attempted coup by the Myanmar military. At the root of these crises is the military who continues to be able to enjoy blanket impunity.

 

                                       -“Wai Wai Nu, Women Peace Network

 

While the military junta continues its scorched earth offensives, particularly in Chin State, Sagaing Region, and Karenni State, a missed deadline to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding steps that Myanmar has taken to prevent ongoing genocide against the Rohingya reminds the world that the military’s brutal violence we see today did not begin with its illegal coup attempt of the 1st of February. The ongoing persecution of the Rohingya, highlighted by civil society organizations, should have been a tipping point to catalyze a more effective, coordinated international response.

PM Hasina: UNGA discussion will help continue international pressure for Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka Tribune

BSS
October 4th, 2021

She hopes Bangladesh delegation's participation in the session would strengthen Dhaka's position in the multilateral forum

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said international pressure on Myanmar would continue for a permanent solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as the issue was widely discussed in the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session.

She said: "The issue of the Rohingya crisis and its permanent solution was discussed elaborately in the UNGA session which I believe will help to continue global pressure on Myanmar for bringing back their Rohingya nationals from Bangladesh."

Myanmar’s Democratic Vision Depends on Including Rohingya, Other Ethnic Minorities “We will never be free until all of us are free.”

THE I DIPLOMAT

Wai Wai Nu
June 25, 2021

“We will never be free until all of us are free.”

Since the February 1 coup in Myanmar, the military has unfurled a brutal nationwide crackdown targeting protesters and civilians who oppose their unlawful rule. Indeed, last week’s stinging rebuke of the military coup by the United Nations General Assembly — only the fourth such resolution since the end of the Cold War — offers a stark reminder of what’s at stake.

One on One - Myanmar's UN Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun

TRT WORLD
Jun 26, 2021

The United Nations General Assembly has called for an arms embargo on Myanmar in response to the February coup by the military junta. In a rare act of defiance, Myanmar's UN ambassador also condemned the coup. TRT World's Frank Ucciardo sat down with Kyaw Moe Tun to talk about Myanmar's future and whether his county will ever return to democracy.

#Myanmar #UN #KyawMoeTun

Link : Here

United Nations calls for halt of weapons to Myanmar

ABS-CBN NEWS
Michelle Nichols, Reuters
Jun 23 2021

Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Myanmar's Commander in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing walk past the honor guard prior to their talks in Moscow, Russia on June 22, 2021. Vadim Savitskiy/Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation/Handout via Reuters

NEW YORK - The United Nations General Assembly on Friday called for a stop to the flow of arms to Myanmar and urged the military to respect November election results and release political detainees, including leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The General Assembly adopted a resolution with the support of 119 countries several months after the military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government in a Feb. 1 coup. Belarus requested the text be put to a vote and was the only country to oppose it, while 36 abstained, including China and Russia.

Bangladesh abstains from voting against Myanmar

Prothom Alo 

Prothom Alo English Desk

Published: 20 Jun 2021, 

The United Nations logo is seen on a window in an empty hallway at United Nations headquarters during the 75th annual UN General Assembly high-level debate in New York, US, on 21 September 2020Reuters

The UN General Assembly on Friday took a rare step of calling on member states to “prevent the flow of arms” into Myanmar, which is a part of a non-binding resolution condemning the military coup in the violence-wracked country.

The resolution -- which did not go so far as to call for a global arms embargo -- also demands that the military “immediately stop all violence against peaceful demonstrators,” reports Reuters.

It was approved by 119 countries, with 36 abstaining including China, Myanmar’s main ally. Only one country, Belarus, voted against it. Bangladesh also abstained from voting.

UNGA Motion on Myanmar: Dhaka keeps off vote as it skirts reality

The Daily Star

Diplomatic Correspondent

June 21, 2021

Bangladesh has abstained from voting a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that failed to adequately reflect on the Rohingya crisis and their repatriation from Bangladesh.

It also expressed deep disappointment at the resolution on the "Situation in Myanmar" that was adopted by the UNGA on Friday with 119 votes in favour, one against and 36 abstentions, said Bangladesh's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York in a statement yesterday.

Why did India abstain from voting on the Myanmar resolution at the UN General Assembly?

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Angshuman Choudhury
Yesterday 

The resolution calls on the country’s military to end the state of emergency and to reopen the ‘democratically elected parliament’, among other things.

A demonstration against the military coup in Dooplaya district in Myanmar's Karen state. | Handout / KNU Dooplaya District / AFP

On June 18, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution on the “situation in Myanmar” with a vote of 119-1. Although not legally binding on member states, the document carries significant political heft.