Situation of Human Rights of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar

A/HRC/RES/S-27/1View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, published in 2017.

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17 documents · 2015–2026

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/62/3	Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar	9,497	–
2025	A/RES/80/221	Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar	10,694	–
2025	A/HRC/RES/59/2	Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar	8,320	–
2024	A/RES/79/182	Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar	9,122	–
2024	A/HRC/RES/56/1	Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar	6,787	–

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10 subjects

Accountability Displaced Persons Human Rights Human Rights Violations Humanitarian Assistance Minorities Muslims Myanmar Nationality Report Preparation

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23 operative paragraphs

Strongly condemns the alleged systematic and gross violations of human rights and abuses committed in Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine State, notably against persons belonging to the Rohingya Muslim community and other minorities, including women and children;

Condemns the attacks against Myanmar police and military posts carried out on 25 August 2017 and all acts of violence against the security forces, and stresses that the challenges facing Rakhine State and other areas in Myanmar can be resolved only through peaceful means;

Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to ensure the protection of the human rights of all persons in Myanmar, including persons belonging to the Rohingya Muslim community and other minorities;

Urges the Government of Myanmar to take all measures necessary to prevent the destruction of places of worship, cemeteries, infrastructure, and commercial and residential buildings belonging to all people, and to facilitate the rebuilding of those that have already been destroyed;

Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to take all measures necessary to provide justice to victims, ensure the full accountability of perpetrators and end impunity for all violations and abuses of human rights, including, in particular, those perpetrated against persons belonging to the Rohingya Muslim community and other minorities, by facilitating a full, transparent and independent investigation into the reports of all violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law when applicable;

Expresses grave concern at consistent allegations of widespread sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, and calls for those allegations to be investigated, for those found responsible to be held to account, and for access by victims of human rights violations, including victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence, killings and other attacks, to long-term health services and psychosocial support to be ensured;

Strongly calls upon the Government of Myanmar to cooperate fully with the fact-finding mission established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 34/22 and to grant unfettered access to the fact-finding mission, other human rights mechanisms and the United Nations, and to ensure that individuals have unhindered access to and can communicate with the United Nations and other human rights entities without facing acts of reprisal, intimidation or attacks or any other type of harassment, or the fear thereof;

Expresses deep concern that humanitarian access remains severely restricted in northern Rakhine State and unpredictable in other parts of Rakhine State;

Urges, while noting the initial steps taken by the Government of Myanmar and humanitarian agencies to provide assistance to individuals in Rakhine State, the Government of Myanmar to allow full, immediate, safe, unconditional and unhindered access for the United Nations agencies and other international humanitarian actors, including regional organizations such as the Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, to carry out needs assessments and to resume delivery of primary and life-saving humanitarian assistance to all affected persons and communities without discrimination throughout Myanmar, and particularly in Rakhine State, including northern and central Rakhine State;

Highly appreciates the efforts of the Government of Bangladesh, strongly supported by the international community, to provide safety and assistance for those who have fled violence, and encourages the Government of Bangladesh to continue those efforts until conditions in Myanmar are conducive to the safe, voluntary, sustainable and dignified return of those who have fled violence;

Urges the Government of Myanmar to immediately address the conditions that lead to mass displacement, including lack of safety and security, to restore food security, access to livelihoods, inclusion and public safety, and to ensure respect for the human rights of the Rohingya population in northern Rakhine State in order to take steps to create an atmosphere conducive to the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable return to their places of origin in Myanmar of those who have been forcibly displaced, by ensuring that their human rights, including freedom of movement, will be fully respected and by creating the right conditions for them to return to their homes and resume their livelihood activities and income generation without fear, discrimination or restrictions;

Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to ensure, in conjunction with international partners and in accordance with international law, the safe, dignified, voluntary and sustainable return to their ancestral land in Myanmar of all displaced Rohingyas, including refugees and internally displaced persons, and to ensure the human rights of those who return;

Also calls upon the Government of Myanmar to immediately start a process for the expeditious verification of refugees and forcibly displaced persons in a time-bound manner that accommodates many refugees’ and forcibly displaced persons’ lack of documentation;

Welcomes the public commitment of the Government of Myanmar to implement the recommendations of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State to the fullest extent and urges the Government to implement them swiftly and in their entirety, to allow reconciliation in Rakhine State and to commence a process of inclusive development meaningful for all communities, and notes the establishment of the Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Development in Rakhine;

Calls upon the international community and regional organizations to provide support, including humanitarian and development assistance, to the Government of Myanmar for the implementation of the recommendations of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, including recommendations regarding an inclusive and transparent citizenship verification process, the provision of documentation for non-citizens and their equal access to essential social services, including education, health care and freedom of movement, and on finding sustainable solutions in building intercommunal harmony towards lasting peace, stability and prosperity for the benefit of the whole population, and calls upon the Government of Myanmar to provide unhindered access for such humanitarian assistance;

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 the forcibly displaced Rohingya Muslims and other minorities until their return to their places of origin in Myanmar and to assist Myanmar in the provision of humanitarian assistance to affected persons of all communities displaced internally within Rakhine State, taking particular account of the vulnerable position of women and children;

Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to address the root causes of the Rohingya crisis, including by addressing the issue of the statelessness of the Rohingya population by ensuring their equal access to full citizenship and related rights, including civil and political rights, and, to those ends, to amend the 1982 Citizenship Law to ensure its conformity with universally recognized principles and to restore the citizenship of the Rohingya population through an open, fast, voluntary and transparent process of national verification based on past census and other data that leaves no individual unregistered nor hinders their access to essential social services, including education and health care, and, in the event of any dispute, involving independent national and international observers for transparency and accountability;

Also calls upon the Government of Myanmar to take all measures necessary, while fully respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms, to counter any incitement to hatred or violence by publicly condemning such acts and holding those who conduct such acts accountable under criminal law, and acknowledges the Government’s efforts to promote interfaith dialogue in the country;

Encourages further efforts to promote intercommunal interfaith dialogue in order to de-escalate tension and foster peaceful coexistence among all ethnic and religious groups in Myanmar;

Calls upon the Government of Myanmar to cooperate with and assist the relevant special procedure mandate holders in the discharge of their respective mandates, to provide them with all necessary information requested by them and to give serious consideration to responding favourably to their requests to visit the country in order to enable them to fulfil their duties effectively in the context of the human rights situation of the Rohingya population;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to track progress concerning the human rights situation of Rohingya people, and to provide oral updates, followed by an interactive dialogue, at the thirty-eighth, forty-first and forty-fourth sessions of the Human Rights Council, with a view to reaching a comprehensive solution of the crisis within three years through the full implementation of the present resolution and Council resolution 34/22;

Also requests the High Commissioner to prepare a comprehensive written report on the situation, including on the level of cooperation and access given to the fact-finding mission and other United Nations human rights mechanisms, the implementation of the present resolution, the findings and recommendations of the United Nations system on the situation of human rights of Rohingya people in Rakhine State and recommendations on a future course of action, to present the report to the Human Rights Council at its fortieth session, and to submit the report to the General Assembly for its consideration;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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