Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council
See also the webcasts of the interactive dialogues, where available, for oral statements
Individual Documents
Description:
"Enduring threat of genocide...Routine dehumanisation of the Rohingya has led to them becoming a target for racism and
violence. Official organisations in Myanmar repeatedly refuse to use the description "Rohingya" and instead refer to the Rohingya as "illegal Bengalis". In the nationwide elections held in November 2020, in which the share of the vote obtained by Aung San Suu
Kyi's National League for Democracy - NLD - secured her party a majority in Parliament, almost all of the Rohingya were prevented or deterred from voting and therefore were effectively disenfranchised. Deprived of their fundamental right to citizenship, their selfdescription as "Rohingya" and recognition of their identity, the group remain under an everpresent threat of genocide. In order to prevent history from repeating itself, those responsible for the atrocities and crimes of genocide committed against the Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar must be held accountable. The genocide case brought by the Gambia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) requires the support of other countries in addition to the Netherlands, Canada, and Maldives. It is vitally important that other states recognise the status of the Rohingya and guarantee their protection as a group.....Access for essential humanitarian assistance denied...The fighting in Rakhine State and restricted access for essential humanitarian assistance,
even during the current temporary ceasefire between the armed forces of Myanmar (the Tatmadaw) and the Arakan Army (AA), are a particular cause for concern. The humanitarian situation is dire. The Myanmar authorities have restricted access for humanitarian relief organisations in Rakhine State, preventing urgently-needed aid from
reaching particularly vulnerable people. In the context of ongoing armed conflict and in particular the global COVID-19 pandemic, this is completely unacceptable.....Access to the internet blocked...Denial of access to the internet is threatening the lives and safety of local communities and exacerbating the already grave humanitarian crisis affecting the area. On 29 December 2020, the Myanmar Ministry of Transport and Communication ordered all mobile network
operators in Myanmar to impose increasingly severe restrictions on internet access for 3G and 4G services in eight districts of Rakhine (Buthidaung, Rathedaung, Ponnagyun, MraukU, Kyauktaw, Minbya and Myabon) and Chin (Paletwa) States until 31 March 2021. This
has left over a million people in Rakhine cut off from the Internet. Protests against the violence and disconnection from the Internet have been met with arrests, trials and convictions. The Ministry has ordered the websites of ethnic media outlets to be blocked..."
Source/publisher:
Society for Threatened Peoples (A/HRC/46/NGO/69)
Date of publication:
2021-02-25
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-17
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Written statement submitted to the 23rd session of the UN Human Rights Council by
the Maarij Foundation for
Peace and Development (MFPD),
a
non
-
governmental
organization in special consultative status: "...The Rohingya have consistently faced human rights abuses by the Myanmar
government
which has refused to ackno
wledge them as Myanmar ci
tizens
and attempted to forcibly
expel Rohingya and bring in non
-
Rohingyas to replace them. This policy has resulted in the
expulsion of approximately half of the Rohingya population from Myanmar. An estimated
huge number of people have been displaced in t
he recent sectarian violence between
Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar?s western Rakhine State. As a result of this
policy Rohingya people have been described as ?among the world?s least wanted? and ?one
of the world?s most persecuted minorities. S
ince a 1982 citizenship law
,
Rohingya have
been stripped of their Myanmar citizenship. Rohingya are not allowed to travel without
official permission, are banned from owning land and are required to sign a commitment to
have not more than two children..."
Source/publisher:
Maarij Foundation for Peace and Development via the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/23/NGO/10)
Date of publication:
2013-05-06
Date of entry/update:
2013-05-28
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English
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Written statement
submitted to the 23rd session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource
Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general
consultative status:
"1. Following the communal violence that wracked the
western parts of Myanmar near
the border of Bangladesh in 2012, the country?s pre
sident established a commission of
inquiry comprising of retired public servants, reli
gious figures, politicians, academics and
members of civil society. The commission handed dow
n its findings on 22 April 2013.
Despite high expectations, the 119-page report is g
ravely flawed. Although it contains a
few useful recommendations and observations, to whi
ch the Special Rapporteur on human
rights in Myanmar alluded in a press release of 1 M
ay 2013, the commission?s positive
contributions are outweighed by a range of omission
s and misrepresentations and by an us-
versus-them mentality that pervades the document..."
Source/publisher:
Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) via Human Rights Council (A /HRC/23/NGO/41)
Date of publication:
2013-05-17
Date of entry/update:
2013-05-28
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English
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"Amnesty International?s written statement to the 19th session of the UN Human
Rights Council (27 February ? 23 March 2012)
Over the past year, Myanmar?s human rights situation has improved notably in some respects but has
significantly worsened in others. Freedoms of assembly and expression remain restricted; there still are
hundreds of political prisoners and many prisoners of conscience. In several ethnic minority areas
the army continues to commit violations of international human rights and humanitarian law against
civilians, including acts that may constitute crimes against humanity or war crimes..."
Source/publisher:
Amnesty International
Date of publication:
2012-02-13
Date of entry/update:
2012-02-27
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Various rights: reports of violations against several ethnic groups, Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council
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English
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Written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource
Centre, a non-governmental organization in general
consultative status...."...One obvious short-term indicator of the worsening conditions in the country since the
new government took power, which speaks to the continued hold that the military has on all
affairs of any importance, is the resurgence of civil warfare in at least three states. Another
is the failure to release most political detainees, including practically all of those
imprisoned following the monk-led uprising of 2007. However, there are many other
aspects of the current situation that while being represented as signs of improvement on
closer examination are found to be exaggerated or false. These include the following:..."
Source/publisher:
Asian Legal Resource Centre via UNHRC (A/HRC/18/NGO/33)
Date of publication:
2011-09-09
Date of entry/update:
2011-10-04
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English
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Written statement submitted by the Jubilee Campaign, a
non-governmental organization in special consultative status..."
The Jubilee Campaign, together with Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), seeks to draw
the Council?s attention to the domestic human rights and religious freedom situation in
Myanmar.
Despite repeated calls for change there has been little evidence for progress in Myanmar
which continues to be one of the foremost violators of human rights in the world. Since the
elections in 2010 there has been a significant increase in the scale and severity of human
rights violations, which include the systematic use of rape as a weapon of war, torture,
forced labour, forced conscription of child soldiers, and extrajudicial killings. The Jubilee
Campaign joins the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Myanmar in calling for a
Commission of Inquiry into these crimes which amount to crimes against humanity and war
crimes..."
Source/publisher:
Jubilee Campaign via United Nations (A/HRC/18/NGO/69)
Date of publication:
2011-09-12
Date of entry/update:
2011-10-04
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English
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Description:
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Fifteenth session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate
A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status....."...After a decade or more of intense work on Myanmar in international human rights gatherings, and after the compilation and submission of vast quantities of information about the factual situation in the country at considerable effort and often great risk on the part of large numbers of human rights defenders in the country and abroad, it is not only disingenuous but insulting for the Council to continue to do no more than make the same carefully worded calls that are disconnected from reality and lacking in either intellectual or moral fibre. The absence of either normative or institutional frameworks for the protections of human rights in Myanmar precludes business as usual. It must be said plainly and clearly that the Council has failed utterly to address the situation of human rights in Myanmar; that the Council has been amply informed about the real situation in the country and cannot pretend that the normative and institutional frameworks for the protection of human rights exist when they do not. The question remains as to what, given these facts, the Council can do about it."
Source/publisher:
Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC-CWS-15-04-2010)
Date of publication:
2010-08-24
Date of entry/update:
2010-09-02
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Description:
"...The deeply flawed 2008 Constitution further entrenches arrangements for abuses of the sorts outlined above, and any serious attempts from the international community to take up issues of concern to the people of Myanmar in the lead up to and after the anticipated election must respond to the peculiar variety of unconstitutional constitutionalism that it envisages. In particular, the following aspects of the charter must be brought to the foreground and addressed before it is possible to proceed to more in-depth discussion about human rights in Myanmar under a government operating according to its parameters:..."
Source/publisher:
Asian Human Rights Commission via UN Human Rights Council (A/HRC/12/NGO/21)
Date of publication:
2009-09-07
Date of entry/update:
2009-12-04
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
National and State constitutions, draft constitutions and amendments (commentary), Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council
Language:
English
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Description:
Joint Statement by: 1. Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
2. International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID)
3. Pax Romana ? International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural
Affairs and International Movement of Catholic Students)
4. People?s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD)
5. Peace Boat
6. MINBYUN- Lawyers for Democratic Society
7. International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism
(IMADR)
8. Asian Indegeneous and Tribal People?s Network (AITPN)
9. Ain O Salish Kendro (Ask)
10. Law and Mediation Centre
11. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
12. Earth Rights International
13. International Women?s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW)
14. Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Asia,
15. Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous People?s International Centre for Policy
Research and Education)...The Statement has been endorsed by 243 human rights organisations.
Source/publisher:
Fifteen NGOs
Date of publication:
2007-10-02
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council, Human Rights Council: Special Session on Myanmar, Statements by NGOs
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Amnesty International
Date of publication:
2007-10-02
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council, Human Rights Council: Special Session on Myanmar, Statements by NGOs
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)
Date of publication:
2007-10-02
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council, Human Rights Council: Special Session on Myanmar, Statements by NGOs
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
FIDH
Date of publication:
2007-10-02
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council, Human Rights Council: Special Session on Myanmar, Statements by NGOs
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
International Commission oif Jurists
Date of publication:
2007-10-02
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Human Rights Council: Special Session on Myanmar, Statements by NGOs, Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Date of publication:
2007-10-02
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Human Rights Council: Special Session on Myanmar, Statements by NGOs, Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
UN Watch
Date of publication:
2007-10-02
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Oral statements on Myanmar by NGOs to regular sessions of the Human Rights Council, Human Rights Council: Special Session on Myanmar, Statements by NGOs
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Worldview International Foundation
Date of publication:
2007-09-14
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-30
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Language:
English
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100.2 KB
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Source/publisher:
NGOs
Date of publication:
2007-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-29
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Language:
English
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99.54 KB
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Source/publisher:
NHRIs
Date of publication:
2007-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-29
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Language:
English
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50.33 KB
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Source/publisher:
Amnesty International
Date of publication:
2007-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-29
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Language:
English
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78.32 KB
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Source/publisher:
Human Rights Watch
Date of publication:
2007-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-29
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Language:
English
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130.23 KB
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Source/publisher:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of publication:
2007-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-29
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Language:
English
Format :
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78.72 KB
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Source/publisher:
Asian Legal Resource Centre
Date of publication:
2007-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-29
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Language:
English
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63.84 KB
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Title: Human Rights Council - 6th session: Oral statement by the International Commission of Jurists
Source/publisher:
International Commission of Jurists
Date of publication:
2007-12-12
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-29
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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243.38 KB
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Source/publisher:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
Date of publication:
2007-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-29
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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89.5 KB
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Source/publisher:
World View International
Date of publication:
2007-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-29
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Language:
English
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109.26 KB
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Source/publisher:
Worldview International Foundation, International Federation for Human Rights
Date of publication:
2008-03-13
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-19
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
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89.99 KB
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Source/publisher:
INFID, Forum-Asia, ASK, CORE, PDSP, WILPF
Date of publication:
2008-03-13
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-19
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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91.14 KB
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Source/publisher:
Human Rights First
Date of publication:
2008-03-13
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-19
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Language:
English
Format :
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82.33 KB
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Source/publisher:
Human Rights Watch
Date of publication:
2008-03-13
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-19
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
89.45 KB
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Source/publisher:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of publication:
2008-03-13
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-19
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
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61.93 KB
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Title: Human Rights Council - 7th session: Oral Statement by the International Commission of Jurists
Source/publisher:
International Commission of Jurists
Date of publication:
2008-03-13
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-19
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Language:
English
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87.94 KB
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Description:
Statement on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
Source/publisher:
Human Rights First (A/HRC/7/NGO/85)
Date of publication:
2008-02-28
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-19
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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33.37 KB
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Source/publisher:
Society for Threatened Peoples (A/HRC/7/NGO/52)
Date of publication:
2008-02-25
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-19
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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16.72 KB
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Source/publisher:
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (A/HRC/7/NGO/62)
Date of publication:
2008-02-25
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-19
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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14.3 KB
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Description:
Focus on the Rohingyas
Source/publisher:
Anti-Slavery International
Date of publication:
2008-03-13
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-18
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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pdf
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80.1 KB
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Description:
The situation of human rights in Myanmar
Source/publisher:
Amnesty International (A/HRC/7/NGO/94)
Date of publication:
2008-02-27
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-18
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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pdf
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23.75 KB
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Description:
MYANMAR: Utter lawlessness in the aftermath of September 2007
Source/publisher:
Asian Legal Resource Centre (A/HRC/7/NGO/38)
Date of publication:
2008-02-28
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-18
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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pdf
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26.52 KB
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Description:
MYANMAR: Political psychosis, legal dementia and systemic abuses of human rights
Source/publisher:
Asian Legal Resource Centre (A/HRC/7/NGO/39)
Date of publication:
2008-02-22
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-18
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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27.96 KB
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Source/publisher:
Asian Legal Resource Centre
Date of publication:
2008-03-13
Date of entry/update:
2008-03-18
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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60.84 KB
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