OIC Welcomes Adoption of Resolution on Rohingya Muslims by Human Rights Council

The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation welcomes the adoption of the OIC-led resolution titled “Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar” by the sixty-second session of the Human Rights Council.

The OIC Group in Geneva presented the resolution with a view to drawing the Council’s attention to the gravity of the human rights situation facing the Rohingya Muslims, especially the decades of institutionalized discrimination, disenfranchisement, marginalization, and long-standing persecution, alongside other minorities in Myanmar.

The Group called for international, independent and transparent investigations to hold perpetrators to account and to strip away impunity that has long enabled systemic discrimination against the Rohingya.

The resolution expresses deep concern that, despite the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice on 23 January 2020, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, including women and children, continue to suffer from targeted killings, indiscriminate violence and serious injuries, including by means of indiscriminate fire, airstrikes, shelling, burning, landmines and unexploded ordnance.

The resolution calls upon Myanmar to effectively address the root causes of human rights violations and abuses against ethnic minorities, including the Rohingya, in Rakhine State and to create the conditions necessary for the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable return of all refugees, including Rohingya Muslim refugees, particularly in view of the fact that, to date, not a single Rohingya has returned through a bilaterally set-up mechanism for repatriation between Bangladesh and Myanmar owing to the failure of Myanmar to create such conditions in Rakhine State.