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Deeply alarmed by the surge in grave violations against children in Myanmar,
including as reported by the Secretary-General, including Rohingya children and
children belonging to other minorities, and urging all parties to immediately end and
prevent all violations and abuses against children, including the recruitment and use,
and the killing and maiming of children, as well as the rise in attacks on schools and
on hospitals by all parties to the conflict, in particular the Myanmar armed forces,
including related forces and affiliated militias, that children continue to be subjected
to the six grave violations against children during armed conflict, and that the scale
and recurrent nature of such violations and abuses will affect generations to come,
Expressing alarm at the violations and abuses occurring in the framework of
transnational crimes, such as human trafficking, drug trafficking and online scam
operations,
Reiterating the urgent need to ensure that all those responsible for crimes related
to violations and abuses of international law throughout Myanmar, including
international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international
criminal law, are held to account through credible and independent national, regional
or international justice mechanisms, while recalling the authority of the Security
Council in this regard,
Expressing deep concern that, in Rakhine, more than 600,000 Rohingya
Muslims remain largely segregated and discriminated against with respect to
accessing citizenship and enjoying their human rights and fundamental freedoms, a
large number of whom remain confined in camps with n o freedom of movement and
grossly restricted access to basic services, including food, health and psychosocial
care and education, as well as livelihoods,
Expressing its concern that Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, in
particular women and girls, remain at significant risk of sexual and gender -based
violence, notably in the context of the continued conflict between the Myanmar
security and armed forces and the Arakan Army,
Continuing to underline the need for the Myanmar military and other armed
groups to cease all actions that run counter to the protection of all persons within the
country, including those belonging to the Rohingya community, by respecting
international law, including international human rights law and international
humanitarian law, and ending violence, including sexual and gender-based violence,
and calling for urgent steps to ensure justice in respect of all human rights violations
and violations of international humanitarian law so that those displaced by violence
are able to voluntarily return in safety and dignity to their places of origin or to a
place of their choice in a sustainable manner,
Alarmed at the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in Myanmar, the
continued attacks on medical and humanitarian personnel, the lack of basic healthcare
and lifesaving assistance, and the denial of safe, rapid and unhindered humanitarian
access, and calling for all parties to the conflict, in particular the Myanmar military,
to abide by international law, including international humanitarian law, in this matter,
and to enable humanitarian actors to deliver humanitarian aid consistent with the
humanitarian principles of humanity, independence, neutrality and impartiality,
Noting with deep concern that the lack of sufficient humanitarian access,
especially to food, in particular to areas with internally displaced persons and to the
areas from which many people have been and continue to be forcibly displaced and
in which many others, such as Rohingya Muslims, are living in precarious conditions
is exacerbating the humanitarian crisis, which may lead to hunger-induced
displacement and more influx to Bangladesh,
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