Internal Displacement in Myanmar: Stakeholder Report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) to the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism

This report draws on IDMC’s report on internal displacement in Myanmar published in July 2014 and also uses information collected since then. It is based on documents published by international organisations, national and international NGOs and media, and interviews with key informants. The 10th session of the UPR Working Group, which reviewed Myanmar as part of the First Cycle, predated the beginning of several new internal displacement situations resulting from armed conflict in Kachin/northern Shan and Kayin states and from inter-communal violence in Rakhine state and Mandalay region. The present submission covers these situations in addition to protracted internal displacement in south-eastern Myanmar. It focuses on the human rights of IDPs and their access to durable solutions.