Independent report highlights ‘systemic’ failure over Rohingya crisis
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 08, 2023
Independent report highlights ‘systemic’ failure over Rohingya crisis

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18 June, 2019, 12:11 pm
Last modified: 18 June, 2019, 12:56 pm

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Independent report highlights ‘systemic’ failure over Rohingya crisis

UN chief indicated he would be following up to ensure that the recommendations are implemented

UNB
18 June, 2019, 12:11 pm
Last modified: 18 June, 2019, 12:56 pm
File photo of a Rohingya camp
File photo of a Rohingya camp

An independent review into how the UN System operated in Myanmar in the years leading up to the mass exodus of the Rohingya following serious human rights abuses has concluded there were "systemic and structural failures" that prevented a unified strategy from being implemented.

The report by former Guatemalan Foreign Affairs Minister Gert Rosenthal said the UN System overall had been "relatively impotent to effectively work with the authorities of Myanmar, to reverse the negative trends in the areas of human rights, and consolidate the positive trends in other areas."

Rosenthal is a former UN Ambassador and top executive at the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), according to UN News.

The review, published on Monday, covers the period 2010-2018, encompassing the UN's response to the systematic and brutal abuse of hundreds-of-thousands of mainly-Muslim Rohingya in Rakhine state, by the national army and security forces, which began in August 2017, described by the UN human rights chief at the time as a text book example of ethnic cleansing.

In his conclusions and recommendations, Rosenthal writes that responsibility for the grave abuses wrests mainly with the Myanmar government.

But although the UN's systematic failures are not down to any single entity or any individuals, "clearly there is a shared responsibility on the part of all parties involved in not having been able to accompany the Government's political process with constructive actions, while at the same time conveying more forcefully the United Nations' principled concerns regarding grave human rights violations".

He also notes the UN Security Council should bear some responsibility, "by not providing enough support to the Secretariat, when such backing was and continues to be essential".

Rosenthal said the key lesson was "to foster an environment encouraging different entities of the UN System to work together" to reinforce a "broader, system-wide strategy".

The UN Spokespersons' Office, reacting to the report, said UN chief Antonio Guterres was "grateful to Rosenthal for producing a candid, forthright and useful report. The entire report, including its conclusions and recommendations, has been transmitted to the Member States".

Guterres said he was accepting the recommendations "and is committed to implementing them so as to improve the performance of the United Nations system. This review is valuable for the Resident Coordinator and the UN Country Team in Myanmar, as well as in other countries where the UN operates in similarly challenging conditions".

The UN chief noted that no individual or agency was being singled out, and said it was useful for analysing how the UN can work more effectively on the ground and possible lessons learned for the future.

"The Secretary-General notes the report's assessments are in line with the Secretary-General's own efforts to put a greater emphasis on prevention, and also to improve the performance and accountability of the UN at a country level by creating a new generation of UN country teams and more adapted structures at the headquarters level", said the Office of the Spokesperson.

Guterres indicated he would be following up to ensure that the recommendations are implemented.
 

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