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ensuring repatriation, to take all measures necessary to provide justice to victims, and to
ensure full accountability and end impunity for all violations of human rights by undertaking
a full, transparent and independent investigation into reports of all violations of international
human rights law and international humanitarian law;
5.
Reiterates the importance of conducting international, independent, fair and
transparent investigations into gross human rights violations and abuses in Myanmar,
including those involving sexual and gender-based violence and abuses against women and
children and alleged war crimes, and of holding accountable all those responsible for brutal
acts and crimes against all persons, including Rohingya Muslims, in order to deliver justice
to victims using all appropriate legal instruments and domestic, regional and international
judicial mechanisms, including the International Court of Justice and the International
Criminal Court, as applicable;
6.
Welcomes the order of the International Court of Justice of 23 January 2020
that indicated provisional measures, and urges Myanmar, in accordance with the Court’s
order in relation to members of the Rohingya in its territory, to take all measures within its
power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of article 2 of the Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to ensure that its military and
any irregular armed units that may be directed or supported by it and any organizations and
persons that may be subject to its control, direction or influence do not commit, inter alia,
any such acts, to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence and to report
to the Court as ordered on all measures taken to give effect to the order;
7.
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 indiscriminate fire, shelling, landmines or unexploded
ordnance;
8.
Calls for the immediate cessation of fighting and hostilities, of the targeting of
civilians and of all violations and abuses of international human rights law and international
humanitarian law, and the implementation of an inclusive and comprehensive national
political dialogue and nationwide reconciliation process while ensuring the full, effective and
meaningful participation of all ethnic groups, including Rohingya Muslims and other
minorities, women and young people, and persons with disabilities, as well as civil society
and religious leaders, with the objective of achieving lasting peace, and also calls for a
peaceful resolution through dialogue towards national unity;
9.
Reiterates its urgent call upon Myanmar to take the measures necessary to
promote the inclusion, human rights and dignity of all people living in Myanmar, to address
the spread of discrimination and prejudice, and to take credible steps to end legal and factual
discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities, including Rohingya Muslims;
10.
Calls upon Myanmar to combat incitement to hatred and hate speech against
Rohingya Muslims and other minorities by publicly condemning such acts and enacting
necessary anti-hate speech laws, in accordance with international human rights law, and by
promoting interfaith dialogue in cooperation with the international community, and
encourages political, religious and community leaders in the country to work towards
national unity through dialogue;
11.
Also calls upon Myanmar to lift the shutdown of Internet and
telecommunications services fully in all areas in Myanmar, including Rakhine State, and to
repeal article 77 of the Telecommunications Act in order to avoid any further cutting of
Internet and telecommunications access and the stifling of the rights to freedom of opinion
and expression, including freedom to seek, receive and impart information, in accordance
with international human rights law;
12.
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 illegal recruitment and use of
children in forced labour;
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