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Interactive dialogue on Myanmar at the 55th Session of the Human Rights Council
Delivered by Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
1 March 2024
Report
2023: OHCHR Report to the General Assembly’s 78th session
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 50/3, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to report on the human rights situation in Myanmar at the seventy eighth session of the General Assembly. The report serves to identify trends and patterns of human rights violations in Myanmar between 1 February 2021 and 30 April 2023, with a focus on the human rights impacts as a result of the denial of humanitarian access. The present comprehensive documentation is further supplemented by data on the situation of human rights and humanitarian access in Rakhine State after Cyclone Mocha in May 2023
2023: OHCHR Report to the Human Rights Council’s 54th Session
Prepared pursuant to A/HRC/RES/50/3, this report identifies trends and patterns of human rights violations that occurred in Myanmar between 1 April 2022 and 31 July 2023. This report documents incidents affecting the civilian population with particular focus on military airstrikes, ground operations, and arson, and also covers acts of violence by anti-military armed groups. It further addresses human rights concerns of the Rohingya community. Recommendations are made to the military, the National Unity Government, and the international community.
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Publications
2023: OHCHR Report to the Human Rights Council’s 53rd Session
The present report, prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution A/HRC/49/23, identifies trends and patterns of human rights violations in Myanmar between 1 February 2021 and 30 April 2023 with a focus on the human rights impact of the denial of humanitarian access. The report analyzes actions by all duty-bearers and finds that the Myanmar military is most responsible for the negative impact on the enjoyment of human rights and on delivery of humanitarian action. The report documents that the military has established an all-encompassing system of control based on instrumentalization of the legal and administrative spheres in Myanmar. Urgent and concrete steps are needed to ensure essential needs of all people are met, including food and healthcare, and to respect, protect and fulfil peoples’ fundamental rights. This report concludes with recommendations to all parties, including the military authorities, the National Unity Government’, and the international community
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2023: OHCHR Report to the Human Rights Council’s 52nd Session
Prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 47/1, this report identifies trends and patterns of human rights violations that occurred in Myanmar between 1 February 2022 and 31 January 2023. Two years after launching a coup, the military has brought the country into a perpetual human rights crisis through continuous use of violence, including killing, arbitrarily arresting, torturing, forcibly disappearing, prosecuting, and sentencing anti-coup opponents. Urgent, concrete actions are needed to ensure that all people in Myanmar enjoy their fundamental rights and freedoms. Recommendations are made to all parties, including military authorities, the ‘National Unity Government’, and the international community.
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2022: OHCHR Report to the Human Rights Council’s 51st Session
Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 46/21, the present report includes an assessment of actions taken by various actors following the release in 2019 by the independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar of a conference room paper on the economic interests of the Myanmar military. It also contains an identification of continuing and emerging challenges, using examples to highlight relevant issues.
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2022: OHCHR Report to the Human Rights Council’s 49th Session
Prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 46/21, this report sets out the trends and patterns of violations and significant regressions in human rights that have occurred in Myanmar since 1 February 2021. The High Commissioner addresses recommendations to all parties in Myanmar, including the military authorities, the international community and the United Nations system.
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2021: OHCHR Report to the Human Rights Council’s 48th Session
This update covers human rights concerns that the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has documented since the seizure of power by the Myanmar military on 1 February 2021 until mid-July 2021. Developments during this period are presented chronologically to illustrate trends and patterns of human rights violations. Findings will be further elaborated in a comprehensive report mandated by resolution 46/21 that is to be presented at the forty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council.
- Burmese Version: Zawgyi version, Unicode version
Supplementary material elaborating aspects of this report is available via a Conference Room Paper: Click here to read it
- Burmese Version: Zawgyi version
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Myanmar in Crisis: Human Rights Situation, February 2021
Developments since 1 February in Myanmar have had and will continue to have significant human rights implications. The Myanmar Team of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has been monitoring such developments in three main areas: rule of law, due process and deprivation of liberty, and the rights to freedom of expression, access to information and peaceful assembly. OHCHR has also been tracking the potential long-term impacts of this political crisis on the people of Myanmar, especially the most vulnerable in society.
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2020: OHCHR Report to the Human Rights Council
This report was submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 42/3, in which the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is requested to submit to the Council at its forty-fifth session a report on the implementation of the recommendations of the independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar, including those on accountability, and on progress in the situation of human rights in Myanmar, including of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities.
COVID-19 and Myanmar
OHCHR aims to put human rights at the heart of the response of States, UN partners, civil society and the private sector to COVID-19. The graph shows recommendations addressed to Myanmar by the UN Human Rights Mechanisms, the Human Rights Council, the Universal Periodic Review, the Special Procedures mandate holders and the Treaty Bodies in the 5 years prior to the pandemic, which OHCHR assesses as particularly relevant in responding to the pandemic in an inclusive and sustainable way. Recommendations addressed to Myanmar can be found at the Universal Human Rights Index at https://uhri.ohchr.org/.
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