Paolo Sergio Pinheiro, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, is set to recommend that the UN General Assembly consider calling on the Security Council to act on the continuing conflict in Karen State.

In a report to the 192 members of the General Assembly, which may be delivered as soon as this Friday, according to a provisional UN schedule, Pinheiro will recommend: “That the General Assembly consider calling on the Security Council to respond to the situation of armed conflict in eastern Myanmar [Burma] where civilians are being targeted and where humanitarian assistance to civilians is being deliberately obstructed,” says a printed version of the report released in New York on Monday.

The special rapporteur, who has not been permitted into Burma for nearly three years, also calls for the Burmese authorities to allow humanitarian workers into Karen State.

This year, the area has seen the heaviest fighting for nearly a decade, resulting in the displacement of 20,000 people, some of which have fled to Thailand. Clashes in the area remain sporadic, reports say. Instances of killings, torture, rape, the destruction of villages and forced labor have been widely documented.

Pinhiero also recommends that the General Assembly, with other relevant UN bodies, consult with the junta “to explore ways and means of deploying a fact-finding mission comprising representatives from relevant United Nations agencies to look into the humanitarian and human rights implications” of the conflict in Karen State. The Burmese government should allow such access and guarantee the safety of humanitarian workers, he adds.

The new report marks Pinheiro’s most explicit recommendations to the UN General Assembly on Security Council intervention in Burma since he was appointed special rapporteur on the country six years ago.

The report covers a number of other issues, many of which Pinheiro reported to the new Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, including harassment of the political opposition and a lack of a genuine mechanism for democratic transition in Burma.