Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what financial support her Department is providing to civil society organisations in Myanmar who are collecting evidence of Myanmar military atrocities.

The UK continues its work to protect the civic space, the human rights and media freedom of the people of Myanmar since the military coup in February 2021. We have maintained support for human rights organisations across Myanmar, including those focussed on gathering evidence of gender-based violence. We have also provided emergency funding for journalists and media organisations to enable them to continue their important efforts in cataloguing evidence of human rights violations. The UK has provided over £1.5 million on human rights monitoring in the past year, including establishing Myanmar Witness; a human rights monitoring mechanism which collects and verifies open-source information on serious human rights violations and ensures there is a spotlight on the military's actions.