A/HRC/43/18 United Nations Advance Unedited Version Distr.: General 27 January 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Fortieth session 27 February – 20 March 2020 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslim minority and other minorities in Myanmar Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution 39/2 of the Human Rights Council, which requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to submit to its forty-third session a report on the “root causes of the human rights violations and abuses the Rohingya Muslim minority and other minorities in Myanmar are facing”. The report identifies factors that underlie the historical and current patterns of human rights violations and abuses against ethnic and religious minorities in Myanmar, and concludes with recommendations on measures to be taken by the Government, the international community and other stakeholders to improve the situation.