A/HRC/56/CRP.8 including India, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, have acceded to the 1951 Refugee Convention and Protocol. Though some countries have ratified the Palermo Protocol and other international instruments related to human trafficking, host countries lack adequate screening mechanisms to identify trafficking victims and provide protection services, increasing the likelihood of detention or re-trafficking. 179. In many settings, Rohingya women are detained, sometimes indefinitely, and often lack access to refugee registration. Detention conditions often lack privacy, sanitation, and basic necessities. There are also reports of some host destinations enforcing family separation. Detained Rohingya women report limited access to health care that meets their maternal, reproductive, and sexual health needs. Women also lack access to psychological and mental health care that helps address compounding mental health concerns and trauma from violence. Rohingya women frequently report high levels of domestic and interpersonal violence in new settings due to instability and stress levels but lack avenues for protection support or other services. IX. Gender equality and inclusion within Myanmar’s resistance movement A. On the frontlines of the resistance 180. For over three years, the people of Myanmar have courageously protested and resisted the Myanmar military’s illegal overthrow of the elected government on 1 February 2021 and its subsequent oppression and gross human rights violations. This broad-based movement, known as the Spring Revolution, is the most inclusive in Myanmar’s history, with participation and leadership of people from diverse gender, sexual, ethnic, religious, geographic, and socio-economic backgrounds. From the very beginning, a young generation of women and LGBT people have been at the forefront of the resistance, connecting their demands for the end of military rule with their demands for gender equality and an end to discrimination. A female politician and revolutionary activist encapsulated the unique and unprecedented moment in the country’s history: Women’s situation in Burma is totally different from the past. In the past… the oppression was very high in the system, religion, environment, community, and by women themselves too. They were very oppressed systematically…Women did not dare to speak out. Women cannot be silenced anymore. It is a very obvious thing. 181. Women have led or participated in non-violent forms of resistance like protests, strikes, and boycotts. They have played a key role in delivering humanitarian assistance. Women have undergone military training, enlisted in armed groups, and supported military operations. While the Spring Revolution has seen unprecedented leadership and visible participation from women and gender diverse people, these communities still experience gender discrimination and other challenges within the resistance movement. 182. In the immediate aftermath of the military coup, women organized and led protests, boycotts, and other forms of civil disobedience. On 2 February 2021, female doctors and nurses were among a group in the Ministry of Health that refused to serve under the military junta and walked out of their workplaces in an act of civil disobedience. Public resistance against the junta swelled and spread across the country, including boycotts and civil disobedience impacting the civil service, factories, and the private sector. In the months after the coup, up to 70 or 80 percent of civil disobedience movement participants may have been 40

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