UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein yesterday urged the new Myanmarese government to take comprehensive legal and policy measures to end the systemic discrimination and human rights violations against minorities, including the large Rohingya Muslim community in Rakhine State.
He was releasing a new report, requested by the UN Human Rights Council in July 2015 on the situation of “Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar”, in Geneva highlighting the plight of the minorities and documenting a wide range of human rights violations and abuses.
The Rohingya are suffering from arbitrary deprivation of nationality, severe restrictions on freedom of movement, threats to life and security, denial of rights to health and education, forced labour, sexual violence, and limitations to their political rights, among other violations, the report says. (Courtesy of thedailystar.net)
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