A/HRC/RES/25/26 and to ensure the safety and security of human rights defenders and their freedom to pursue their activities; 4. Welcomes the continued and significant release of prisoners of conscience during the past year, and urges the Government of Myanmar to continue the important remaining tasks of the prisoner review committee aimed at the unconditional release of all political prisoners, including all political activists and human rights defenders detained recently, to continue working with the parliament to repeal existing legislation which is not in line with international human rights standards and to ensure the full rehabilitation of former prisoners of conscience; 5. Expresses concern about remaining human rights violations and abuses, including arbitrary arrest and detention, forced displacement, rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, arbitrary deprivation of property, including land, and violations of international humanitarian law in some parts of the country, and urges the Government of Myanmar to step up its efforts to put an end to such violations; 6. Welcomes the ongoing efforts aimed at reviewing and reforming legislation, including the Constitution, and stresses the need for and relevance of such reforms, recalls the importance of ensuring its compatibility with international standards and democratic principles, in this regard acknowledges with interest the draft legislation on the National Human Rights Commission intended to bring its functioning into line with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), and calls upon the Government of Myanmar to continue legal reform, including by further repealing laws restricting fundamental freedoms, and to consider ratifying additional international instruments, including international human rights conventions, and incorporating them into national legislation; 7. Encourages the Government of Myanmar to take further steps to strengthen good governance and the rule of law, including through legislative and institutional reform, and to address the need for an independent, impartial and effective judiciary, and repeats its call upon the Government to take the measures necessary to ensure accountability and end impunity, including by undertaking a full, transparent and independent investigation into all reports of violations of international human rights law and humanitarian law; 8. Welcomes the peace process efforts and the ensuing signing of ceasefire agreements between the Government of Myanmar and the ethnic armed groups, and urges full implementation of those agreements, including for all parties to protect the civilian population against ongoing violations and abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law and for safe, timely, full and unhindered humanitarian access to be granted to all areas, and also welcomes the commitment of the President and his Government and the armed opposition groups to reach a nationwide ceasefire and to pursue an all-inclusive political dialogue, notably with the participation of women, with the objective of achieving lasting peace; 9. Urges the Government of Myanmar to accelerate its efforts to address discrimination, human rights violations, violence, hate speech, displacement and economic deprivation affecting various ethnic and religious minorities, to take all measures necessary to prevent the destruction of places of worship, cemeteries, infrastructure and commercial residential buildings belonging to all peoples and to ensure freedom of movement and equal access to services, including health and education; 10. Reiterates its serious concern about the situation of the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine State, including repeated instances of violence that led all communities to suffer tremendous trauma, and other reported abuses in the past year, including earlier this year in Du Chee Yar Tan, requesting that an independent investigation 2