A/HRC/31/21 recommendations relating to the human rights situation in the northern part of the island. However, the recommendations to comply with the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights concerning violations of human rights in the areas of Cyprus that were under the effective control of Turkey; to implement without further delay all the relevant judgements of the European Court of Human Rights, including those in which grave human rights violations by Turkey had been established in the occupied areas of Cyprus under the effective control of Turkey; and to abolish all statutory time limits pertaining to the investigation of serious human rights violations and the prosecution of the perpetrators thereof did not enjoy the support of the Government of Turkey (see A/HRC/29/15, paras. 151.10, 151.11 and 151.18). III. Specific human rights concerns 11. The persisting division of Cyprus continues to have consequences on human rights protection throughout the whole island, including: the right to life and the question of missing persons; the principle of non-discrimination; freedom of movement; property rights; freedom of religion and cultural rights; freedom of opinion and expression; and the right to education. In addition, it is important that a gender perspective be adopted when negotiating and implementing peace agreements (see paras. 52-57 below). A. Right to life and the question of missing persons 12. According to article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Furthermore, article 1 of the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance provides that any act of enforced disappearance is an offence to human dignity, placing the persons subjected thereto outside the protection of the law and inflicting severe suffering on them and their families, and that any act of enforced disappearance also violates or constitutes a grave threat to the right to life. 13. In its resolution 2234 (2015), the Security Council noted with regret that the two sides were withholding access to the remaining minefields in the buffer zone, while noting also the continued danger posed by mines in Cyprus, recent proposals and discussions and positive initiatives on demining. It urged rapid agreement on facilitating the recommencement of demining operations and clearance of the remaining minefields. It called on both sides to allow access to deminers and to facilitate the removal of the remaining mines in Cyprus within the buffer zone, and urged both sides to extend demining operations outside the buffer zone. 14. Through inter-mission cooperation with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, UNFICYP deployed a demining team to a mine hazard area in the Cyprus buffer zone north of Mammari village. That followed an initial assessment in February 2015 and a further survey by experts in April 2015, which showed that mines had been displaced by winter floods into that part of the buffer zone from a minefield north of the ceasefire line. Through constructive military cooperation on the ground, the deminers conducted a final technical survey and mine clearance of the affected area, but members of the public continue to be urged to maintain a safe distance from the hazard area, to obey the mine warning signs and to comply with instructions from UNFICYP.4 Since components of antitank and anti-personnel mines were identified and destroyed between June and August 4 4 See https://unficyp.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/bb-16_july_2015_demining_0.pdf.