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20 Nov 2013

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Aljazeera

UN urges Myanmar to grant rights to Rohingya

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…The General Assembly's human rights committee passed an annual resolution on Myanmar…[expressing] "concern about remaining human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests and detentions of political activists and human rights defenders, forced displacement, land confiscations, rape and other forms of sexual violence and torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment."…The UN resolution, which will move to the full UN General Assembly, acknowledged "the scale of the reform effort undertaken" so far in Myanmar…