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rights violations, including enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, rape and other
forms of sexual violence, and torture and other forms of ill-treatment, and to bring to justice
those responsible in order to end impunity for violations of human rights;
10.
Also calls upon the Government of Myanmar to address as a matter of
urgency consistent reports of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners of conscience, as well as
to improve conditions in prisons and other detention facilities, and to avoid the dispersal of
prisoners of conscience to isolated prisons far from their families where they cannot receive
regular visits or deliveries of supplementary supplies, including food and medicine;
11.
Strongly urges the Government of Myanmar to end all forms of
discrimination and to protect civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights on the
basis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, in particular, to comply with its
human rights obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in this
regard;
12.
Expresses its serious concern about the continuing discrimination, human
rights violations, violence, displacement and economic deprivation affecting numerous
ethnic minorities, including, but not limited to, the Rohingya ethnic minority in Northern
Rakhine State, and calls upon the Government of Myanmar to take immediate action to
bring about an improvement in their respective situations, and to recognize the right of
members of the Rohingya ethnic minority to nationality and to protect all of their human
rights;
13.
Welcomes the prolongation in February 2010 of the Supplementary
Understanding between the International Labour Organization and the Government of
Myanmar, the Government’s increased willingness to apply penalties against those
perpetrating forced labour, and the joint Government-International Labour Organization
awareness-raising activities, but strongly condemns the continued and serious harassment
of complainants and facilitators, and urgently calls for the release of those who remain in
detention as well as of the International Labour Organization facilitator U Zaw Htay, and
urges the Government to intensify measures to end forced labour and to strengthen its
growing cooperation with the liaison officer of the International Labour Organization;
14.
Strongly calls upon the Government of Myanmar to take urgent measures to
put an end to violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including the
targeting of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups, the targeting of civilians by
military operations, including in the eastern part of Myanmar, and rape and other forms of
sexual violence, and to end impunity for such acts without delay;
15.
Also strongly calls upon the Government of Myanmar to put an immediate
end to the recruitment and use of child soldiers in violation of international law by all
parties, welcomes the recent engagement of the Government on this issue and urges it to
intensify measures to ensure the protection of children from armed conflict and to pursue its
collaboration with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and
Armed Conflict, including by granting access to areas where children are recruited, for the
purpose of implementing an action plan to halt this practice;
16.
Urges the Government of Myanmar to provide, in cooperation with the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, adequate human rights
and international humanitarian law training for its armed forces, police and prison
personnel, to ensure their strict compliance with international human rights law and
international humanitarian law and to hold them accountable for any violations thereof;
17.
Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to ensure timely, safe, full and
unhindered access to all parts of Myanmar, including conflict and border areas, for the
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