Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the recommendations made by the Business for Social Responsibility in its report entitled Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar published in October 2018, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of Facebook on potential steps by that company to assist (a) with the collection of evidence by international mechanisms created to investigate violations of international human rights in Myanmar and (b) civil society organisations in that country in raising awareness of opportunities for victims of human rights abuses to access remedies.

The British Embassy in Burma maintains regular contact with Facebook's representatives for Burma. The UK worked closely with international partners to secure the UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Burma of 27 September which establishes a collect and preserve mechanism. This is designed to support future prosecutions. The UK will encourage any party with credible evidence of human rights violations to share it with the mechanism.