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Recommendation 28
28
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The Government should target funding and resources such as protected communications and data storage equipment...
Recommendation
The Government should target funding and resources such as protected communications and data storage equipment to civil society organisations on the ground in Myanmar, who are collecting evidence of human rights abuses committed by the Tatmadaw, for future due process. (Paragraph 45) Myanmar nationals in the UK
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The UK government announced a £500,000 funding boost for the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar and has established the Myanmar Witness programme to independently collect, preserve, verify, and investigate human rights abuses.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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On 1 April, the UK announced a funding boost of £500,000 to the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar to bolster their work on collecting and preserving evidence of serious human rights violations. The UK has also established and funded the Myanmar Witness programme which is independently collecting, preserving, verifying and investigating incidents of possible interferences with human rights. Myanmar nationals in the UK
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