A/HRC/RES/43/26 interests of the Myanmar military,7 and requests the home States of businesses investing in Myanmar or with parts of their supply chains in Myanmar to advise those businesses to conduct appropriate due diligence so that their activities do not support, or risk being seen to be supporting, any human rights violations or abuses; 31. Welcomes the dialogue between the Government of Myanmar and the United Nations on addressing conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence in Myanmar, and encourages the Government to take action, inter alia, to hold perpetrators accountable, to ensure adequate assistance and access to justice to victims and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and to support legal reforms, including a law on the prevention of violence against women, and to provide training and capacity-building to justice and security sector actors; 32. Also welcomes the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan (2020–2024) and the Commission’s reform efforts, and encourages the Myanmar Parliament to enable the Commission to fulfil its mandate independently and in full compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), regrets the lack of a transparent selection process for commissioners and a clear intention to ensure that the Commission reflects the country’s ethnic, religious, regional and gender diversity and includes human rights expertise, and calls upon the Government of Myanmar to ensure the independence of the Commission, including by supporting its compliance with the Paris Principles and accreditation with the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions; 33. Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to demilitarize mining regions and to ensure the protection of human rights for workers in natural resource extraction and the enforcement of environmental safety standards, and urges the Government to work with relevant stakeholders and affected populations to develop inclusive policies for natural resource management and benefit-sharing; 34. Reiterates its call upon the Government of Myanmar to act on its commitment to open a country office of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, with a full mandate, and encourages the Government to issue a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council; 35. Encourages the Government of Myanmar to maintain and enhance its engagement with the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, and allow her continued access to support the ongoing fulfilment of her mandate; 36. Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar for a further period of one year, requests the new mandate holder to present an oral progress report to the Human Rights Council at its forty-fourth and fortyfifth sessions and to submit a report to the Third Committee at the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly and to the Council at its forty-sixth session, in accordance with its annual programme of work, and invites the Special Rapporteur to continue to monitor the situation of human rights and to measure progress in the implementation of the recommendations made by the mandate holder; 37. Requests the Special Rapporteur to undertake thematic research with a view to monitoring the implementation of the recommendations made by the independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar, and to provide detailed updates on the issues covered by the mission in its reports and conference room papers; 38. Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to resume without delay its cooperation with the Special Rapporteur in the exercise of the mandate, including by facilitating visits and granting unrestricted access throughout the country, and to resume its work with the Special Rapporteur to develop a work plan and time frame for the swift implementation of the proposed joint benchmarks identified by the mandate holder in her 7 See conference room paper A/HRC/42/CRP.3, available from www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/MyanmarFFM/Pages/EconomicInterestsMyanmarMilitary.aspx. 7

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