Burma: Humanitarian Aid

(asked on 22nd October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their response to the findings in the report by Fortify Rights, "They Block Everything": Avoidable Deprivations in Humanitarian Aid to Ethnic Civilians Displaced by War in Kachin State, Myanmar, published in August.


Answered by
Lord Bates Portrait
Lord Bates
This question was answered on 30th October 2018

We are deeply concerned by continued reports of violence in Kachin and also northern Shan States, which has led to a further 8,000 people being displaced since February 2018.

We are aware of the report and consider the findings to be credible. We agree with the conclusions that access for international groups to Kachin state is needed urgently. The UK continues to push the Burmese authorities for access at all opportunities.

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