Cologne Declaration
1. Humans’ right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are inalienable rights.
These rights cannot
be usurped nor can they be violated by any government, people,
or community.
2. Perpetrators of genocide and crimes against
humanity – whether state or non-state actors,
and those who
lend them aid,
and support - must be held accountable. Those directly
responsible and those
who are complicit must face justice
individually and collectively.
3. Those who have taken
the responsibility to support and protect the persecuted women, men and children, for mitigating the harm or trying their best to make it right,
should be recognized for their role and
for the example they set for others.
4. We resolutely restate
the determination to prevent torture, atrocities, acts of genocide
and mass violence
and restore, protect,
promote and respect human rights for all.
We
the participants of the international Arakan Conference on the
‘The Rohingya Crisis
and Solution’ hereby,
1. Welcome the convening
of the International Arakan Conference on The Rohingya Crisis and Solution, organized by Hasane
International, Cologne, Germany.
2. Demand from
the international community an unequivocal commitment to resolve the
Rohingya refugee crisis
in a speedy and satisfactory manner.
3. Recognize
the concept of “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) that obliges
the international community to protect refugees through multi-pronged interventions aimed inter alia at deterring
occurrences of egregious international crimes like genocide, war crimes, ethnic-cleansing and
crimes against humanity.
4. Call upon
the United Nations and other members
of the international community to use diplomatic channels to provide
sufficient humanitarian
assistance and other
support to ensure
protection and rights of Rohingya women,
children and other
vulnerable groups.
5. Recognize that all
Rohingya have a right
to return to their
homeland. We call upon the international community to ensure
their voluntary, dignified, informed, and protected
return to their ancestral land in Myanmar with full citizenship rights along with Ethnic identity and insist upon Myanmar to enact
legislation upholding the socio-cultural, political, and economic rights of the Rohingya
population.
6. Call upon the international community to comprehensively investigate the ongoing acts of genocide, mass atrocities,
crimes against humanity
and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and
demand the prosecution and punishment of those offenders responsible for such violations, and protect the Rohingya from further harm.
7. Emphasize the
importance of and
the need for
strengthening co- operation
at various levels - community, civil society, regional, national, and
international – in order to prevent the continuing mass violence against
the Rohingya population.
8. Extend solidarity and support to the Government of Bangladesh in their efforts to provide
for and protect
the persecuted Rohingya
community and in their efforts
to find durable
solutions to the Rohingya
refugee crisis, upholding the rule of law principles and international norms and practices.
9. Emphasize the
need to constructively build on the strengths of the Rohingya population, particularly women, and engage them as leaders in the design
of any future sustainable development solutions in line with the SDGs.
10. Call
upon countries, individually and collectively, including regional and
international bodies, to impose comprehensive sanction on Myanmar until it ends genocide, restores
citizenship to the Rohingya
population, rescinds apartheid
type laws and returns properties and land
to the displaced Rohingya population.
11. Support the UN Special
Rapporteur on Myanmar’s recommendation “to establish a documentation structure to collect, map and preserve evidence of human rights violations and abuses, and testimony
from refugees in Cox’s Bazar,”
and call upon
the UNGA to implement
the recommendation with
the objective of prosecuting perpetrators of international crimes, including genocide and crimes
against humanity, before any judicial
mechanism with the jurisdiction to prosecute
these crimes.
12. Commit to a review
mechanism on the content
and implementation of the “Cologne
Declaration” on a regular
basis.
Endorsed by the International Conference on “The Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Solution,” at the Maritim
Hotel, Cologne, on 3 May 2018.
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