Date
Type
Case No
Country
MMR 3/2014
16/05/2014 Myanmar
JAL
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Summary of the allegation transmitted
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Health; Minority Alleged deleterious consequences of the Government’s order directed at Médecins
issues; Myanmar; Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend all of its activities in Myanmar, and of the attacks
on humanitarian organizations resulting in termination of their operations in
Myanmar’s Rakhine State. According to the information received, MSF was ordered
to cease all of its activities on 26 February 2014, which will have devastating
consequences on the enjoyment of the right to health, both by the ethnic Rakhine
population and Rohingya communities. Following intimidation, violence and attacks
targeting humanitarian organizations in Myanmar on 26 and 27 March, more than 300
humanitarian and development staff were reportedly evacuated from Rakhine State.
Despite claims by the Government that additional medical professionals would be
dispatched to fill the vacuum in health services in Rakhine State, health provision still
falls markedly short of needs.
USA 8/2014
Indigenous
16/05/2014 United States of peoples;
AL
America
Letter concerning the efforts of the Pueblo of Jemez, an indigenous people, to assert
ownership and secure access to lands located within the Valles Caldera National
Preserve in New Mexico. In the letter, the Special Rapporteur provides a series of
observations and recommendations in accordance with human rights standards related
to the Pueblo’s efforts to access and protect sites of cultural and religious significance,
and to seek the return of their traditional lands within the preserve. This letter is a
follow up to an earlier communication sent by the Special Rapporteur on 13 January
2014, see A/HRC/26/21, case no. USA 2/2014, to which a Government reply was
received on 29 April 2014.
A/HRC/27/72
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