Myanmar: International Law
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps her Department has taken to help prevent violations of international law by the Arakan Army in Myanmar.
Answered by Seema Malhotra
We remain deeply concerned by reports of human rights violations in western Myanmar, and continue to push for accountability for such abuses, wherever they occur. Since 2021, the UK has provided £900,000 to the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar to support the collection, verification, and preservation of evidence for future prosecution, and established the Myanmar Witness programme to verify open-source evidence of human rights violations.
As penholder on Myanmar at the UN Security Council, we convened four Council meetings in 2025 to spotlight the crisis and one most recently in March this year. We also co-sponsored the UN Human Rights Council's recent resolution on the situation in Myanmar, condemning ongoing violations, particularly against ethnic minorities.
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