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the voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable return of forcibly displaced Rohingya Muslims
and other minorities from Myanmar, including internally displaced persons;
29.
Expresses grave concern at the continuing 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, and to provide
humanitarian assistance, including age- and gender-responsive assistance, as well as the
delivery of supplies and equipment, in order to allow such personnel to perform efficiently
their tasks of assisting the affected civilian populations, including internally displaced
persons, and encourages it to grant access to the diplomatic corps, independent observers and
representatives of the national and international independent media, without fear of reprisals;
30.
Expresses concern at the continued irregular maritime movement of Rohingya
Muslims, who risk their lives in perilous conditions at the hands of exploitative smugglers
and human traffickers, which highlights their desperate situation and the urgent need to
address the root causes of their plight, and calls upon the international community to
effectively address such irregular maritime movements of Rohingya Muslims, in cooperation
with the relevant United Nations agencies, and to ensure international burden- and
responsibility-sharing, especially by the States parties to the 1951 Convention relating to the
Status of Refugees;
31.
Encourages the international community, in the true spirit of interdependence
and equal burden- and responsibility-sharing, to continue to assist Bangladesh in the
provision of humanitarian assistance to forcibly displaced Rohingya Muslims and other
minorities until their return to Myanmar, and to assist Myanmar in the provision of
humanitarian assistance to all affected persons of all communities displaced internally in
Myanmar, including in Rakhine State, taking into account the vulnerable situation of women,
children, older persons and persons with disabilities;
32.
Encourages all business enterprises, including transnational corporations and
domestic enterprises operating in Myanmar, to implement the Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights;
33.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to monitor
and follow up on the implementation of the recommendations made by the independent
international fact-finding mission, including those on accountability, and to continue to track
progress in the situation of human rights in Myanmar, including of Rohingya Muslims and
other minorities, with the support of specialist experts and in complementarity to the work of
the Independent Mechanism for Myanmar and the reports of the Special Rapporteur, and to
present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its fiftieth session and a written report
at its fifty-second session, each to be followed by an interactive dialogue, and a written report
to the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session;
34.
Decides to hold a panel discussion on the root causes of human rights
violations and abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar at its
fiftieth session, and requests the High Commissioner to submit a report on the panel
discussion to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-second session.
35th meeting
12 July 2021
[Adopted without a vote.]
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