Human Rights Council - 34th Session: The situation of human rights in Myanmar - Resolution

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Resolution adopted without a vote on 24 March 2017.....Decides, inter alia, "to dispatch urgently an independent international fact-finding mission to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council to establish the facts and circumstances of the alleged recent human rights violations by military and security forces, and abuses, in Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine State, including but not limited to arbitrary detention, torture and inhuman treatment, rape and other forms of sexual violence, extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings, enforced disappearance, forced displacement and unlawful destruction of property, with a view to ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims, and requests the fact-finding mission to present to the Council an oral update at its thirty-sixth session and a full report at its thirty-seventh session" (op11)...and "to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar for a further period of one year..."(op27).

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United Nations - Human Rights Council (A/HRC/34/L.8/Rev.1)

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2017-03-22

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2017-03-25

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