A/HRC/RES/43/26 15. Encourages the international community, in the true spirit of interdependence and burden-sharing, to continue to assist Bangladesh in the provision of humanitarian assistance to forcibly displaced Rohingya and other minorities until their return to their places of origin or their place of choosing in Myanmar, and to assist Myanmar in the provision of humanitarian assistance to all affected persons of all communities displaced internally in Myanmar, including in Rakhine State, taking into account the vulnerable situation of women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities; 16. Notes the adoption of a national strategy on the resettlement of internally displaced persons and the closure of camps for internally displaced persons by the Government of Myanmar in November 2019, urges the implementation of the strategy in accordance with international standards, in full consultation with the internally displaced persons and by promoting their voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable return to places of origin or places of choosing and the removal of any restrictions on movement as the priority in Kachin, Rakhine, Shan States and in the south-east of Myanmar, as well as in consultation with the United Nations system and relevant civil society organizations, and encourages ensuring consultation with and the representation of women at all levels of decision-making relating to the camp-closure strategy and its implementation; 17. Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to cooperate fully with and to grant full, unrestricted and unmonitored access for all United Nations mandates and human rights mechanisms, including the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, the Special Rapporteur and relevant United Nations agencies and international and regional courts and human rights bodies to independently monitor the situation of human rights, and to ensure that individuals have unhindered access to and can communicate with the United Nations and other human rights entities without fear of reprisal, intimidation or attack; 18. Also calls upon the Government of Myanmar to ensure full respect for international humanitarian law and to allow free and unhindered access to the entire country for local and international staff of humanitarian and other relevant international agencies to provide humanitarian assistance, including age-, disability- and gender-responsive assistance, and the delivery of supplies and equipment in order to allow the said personnel to perform efficiently their task of assisting affected civilian populations, including internally displaced persons; 19. Urges the Government of Myanmar to grant full and unhindered access to the diplomatic corps, independent observers and representatives of the national and international independent media, without fear of reprisal, intimidation or attack, and to lift the Internet shutdown in Rakhine and Chin States that has been in place in four townships since 21 June 2019 and five more townships since 3 February 2020; 20. Welcomes the involvement of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in finding solutions in Rakhine State and the establishment of an ad hoc support team of the Association’s secretariat, and calls for an even stronger engagement by the Association in close collaboration with relevant United Nations agencies in supporting voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable returns in compliance with international law, including international humanitarian law, international human rights law and refugee law; 21. Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to safeguard those who report violations and abuses, and in this regard expresses concern at reports of the arrest of individuals exercising those rights, and also calls upon the Government to amend or repeal restrictive laws and to end remaining curbs on exercising the rights to the freedoms of religion or belief, expression, association and peaceful assembly, both online and offline, which are essential to ensure a safe and enabling environment for all, notably for civil society, journalists and media workers, human rights defenders, casualty recorders, lawyers, environmental and land rights activists and civilians; 22. Encourages the Government of Myanmar to review and repeal the amendments made in 2018 to the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law, and urges the Government to establish an inclusive land governance framework and to resolve issues of land tenure, in full consultation with affected populations, including ethnic minority communities; 5

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