34.33
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Citizenship Law of 1982, removing links between ethnicity and citizenship, and restore the citizenship of the Rohingya
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
34.18
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully cooperate with all human rights entities and mechanisms, including the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, as well as with the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Justice
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
34.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate fully with United Nations human rights mechanisms, including by granting the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar and the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar full access to all parts of the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Special procedures
- Treaty Bodies
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.177
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the rights to food and health for conflict-affected and internally displaced persons, including by allowing unrestricted access for humanitarian actors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Issues
- Internally displaced persons
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.152
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the draft law on protection from violence against women to contain clear definitions of gender-based violence in line with international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Issues
- International instruments
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.149
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide guidance and standards and sensitize health professionals, health-care service providers, members of the security forces and legal operators to provide services with dignity and respect for all populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Acknowledge that sexual crimes have occurred in Rakhine State and other parts of the country, take concrete measures to identify perpetrators and hold them accountable and ensure health-care and psychosocial services for survivors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.118
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Conduct prompt, independent and thorough investigations into all allegations of violations of international humanitarian law, including into conduct that may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity in Rakhine and Chin States, and all allegations of human rights violations and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice through transparent and credible processes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Issues
- Human rights violations by state agents
- International humanitarian law
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Decriminalize consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex and expand its anti-discrimination legislation to include a prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.75
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reform laws and practices to confer citizenship and documentation based on clear and objective criteria, without discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.67
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the independence of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission by strengthening the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Law, including by establishing criteria for the appointment of gender-diverse commissioners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
33.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fully abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Issues
- Death penalty
- International instruments
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2021
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the 1982 Citizenship Law to give the Rohingya and all other religious minorities and ethnic groups access to full citizenship rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prohibit and prosecute hate speech and discriminatory practices that incite violence towards minorities, and especially clearly endorse non-discrimination and the right of all individuals in Rakhine State to equal protection under the law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Create and maintain a safe and enabling environment for civil society, human rights defenders and journalists
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Release immediately and unconditionally all human rights defenders, student activists and political prisoners, and end ongoing trials of political detainees
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Review the provisions in its penal code which contain punitive measures against women who have undergone illegal abortions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Prosecute suspected perpetrators of violence against ethnic and religious minorities, in line with international standards and to ensure compliance with due process and respect for the rule of law
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure independent investigations of all cases of violence and discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue with the implementation of the National Strategic Plan for the Advancement of Women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the proper work of the Joint Monitoring Committee and Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 23 - October 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take action to bring other remaining armed groups, who are not among 8 major ethnic groups that recently signed the National Ceasefire Agreement, into an inclusive peace process
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Allow access for international organizations to ethnic minority areas
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove all restrictions on freedom of expression, association and assembly in law and in practice and that legal and legitimate political opposition parties and civil society be able to voice their political opinions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The immediate and unconditional release of all human rights defenders, democracy activists and other political prisoners
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Renewed cooperation with ICRC, including allowing it access to all places of detention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue dialogue and cooperation among all stakeholders, including with a view to ensuring that the Constitution provisions are in line with international standards related to democracy and human rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- General
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The abolition of the Press Scrutiny Board and the Broadcasting Censorship Board and take concrete steps to ensure that the press and broadcasting media can operate freely
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Undertake further efforts to prevent the use of child soldiers and to demobilize and reintegrate child soldiers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 10 - January 2011
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that violence against women and girls, including domestic violence and all forms of sexual abuse, constitutes a criminal offence, and that perpetrators are prosecuted and punished
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019