Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing to (a) programmes collecting evidence of gender-based violence by the government of Burma and (b) support victims of that violence.

The UK is clear about the need for the Burmese authorities to end all violence, including sexual violence in Rakhine. Experts from the UK’s Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative are supporting partner organisations to ensure that evidence gathering meets international standards. Through our humanitarian response to the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh, DFID is supporting victims of gender-based violence with provision of medical services, counselling and psychological support.