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subsequently provide for greater participation and representation of local
communities and women;
(e)
Ensure regular systematic access to non-government controlled areas in
Kachin State for humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations;
(f)
Abide by the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the
Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons;
(g)
Ensure that any return of refugees, asylum seekers and internally
displaced persons is carried out voluntarily, in safety and with dignity;
(h)
Incorporate into ceasefire and political agreements clauses which protect
and promote the land rights of existing, displaced and returning ethnic populations,
including the restitution and recognition of land titles and tenure rights of villagers;
(i)
Ratify the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction and begin
to undertake mine survey, clearance, marking and fencing activities in ethnic border
areas;
(j)
Accelerate the identification and release of all children in the national
Armed Forces and border guard forces, including by providing unimpeded access to
its military sites by the country task force;
(k)
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the
Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
82.
The Special Rapporteur calls for joint plans of action on child soldiers to also
be drawn up with non-State armed groups.
83.
Regarding Rakhine State, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the
Government:
(a)
Ease the disproportionate and discriminatory restrictions on the
freedom of movement of Muslim populations;
(b)
Ensure safe access to humanitarian organizations providing life-saving
assistance, including health care, for the IDP camps and isolated villages in Rakhine
State;
(c)
Reverse the increasingly permanent policy of separation and segregation
of communities by taking positive steps to rebuild integrated communities, which
includes upholding the right of people to return to their land and property;
(d)
Release, immediately and without conditions, Tun Aung, Kyaw Hla
Aung and Than Shwe, and the three international NGO workers, who have been
arbitrarily detained;
(e)
Ensure that the due process and fair trial rights of all defendants in
Rakhine State are upheld;
(f)
Bring the Citizenship Act into line with international standards, by
providing for objective criteria in the granting of citizenship that comply with the
principle of non-discrimination, such as birth in the territory and descent (with
citizenship being passed through a parent who is a citizen);
(g)
Ensure that all children who are born in Myanmar and who do not have
a right to the nationality of another State are able to acquire Myanmar citizenship,
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