Human rights and religious freedom in Myanmar (written statement to 18th session of the Human Rights Council)

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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..."

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Jubilee Campaign via United Nations (A/HRC/18/NGO/69)

Date of Publication: 

2011-09-12

Date of entry: 

2011-10-04

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English

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