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Two-child policy violates human rights of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims – UN expert

An assessment team talks to displaced people in Pauktaw camp in rural Rakhine, Myanmar, where more than 20,000 Rohingya live. Photo: mildren/OCHA UN News Centre:  May 31, 2013 An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged the Government of Myanmar to respond unequivocally to the revival of a local order limiting the number of children Rohingya Muslims can have to two, stressing that this is a clear violation of their human rights. Tomás Ojea Quintana, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar emphasized that the Government had an obligation to review and revoke all orders which violate international human rights standards. “This local order is one of many that have been introduced by local Rakhine state authorities that violate the basic human rights of Rohingya Muslims, including with regard to freedom of movement, marriage, and registration of newborn children.” “These orders provide further ammunition to local authoriti