DIHR and MCRB conduct business and human rights training for the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission

The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), Denmark's National Human Rights Commission and a founder of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB), recently conducted a three day training session on business and human rights for the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission, from 7-9 October, in Yangon.

Twenty three participants from the MNHRC were introduced to the three pillars of the UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights - the Government's duty to protect, business's responsibility to respect human rights, and the need for both stakeholders to provide effect remedy to the victims of human rights abuses by business. They discussed the role of a National Human Rights Institution in relation to business and human rights. 

Dr Daw Than Nwe, one of the eleven members of the Commission, and with responsibility for the business/human rights portfolio, commented:  “The training session has enabled our staff to understand how our mandate applies to the business sector, and what the main international standards are. We hope to use what we have learned to draw up an action plan on business and human rights for the Commission”.

The workshop focused in particular on labour issues, the impact of extractive industries on human rights and on land, all of particular relevance in Myanmar. 'We heard from participants that half of the complaints the Commission  receives relate to land disputes, often involving both private and public actors. We hope that these training programme can support the Commission to step up its efforts to work systematically and strategically with other actors, and help them use international standards as a reference point”, said Elin Wrzoncki of  DIHR.

This project was part of DIHR's blended learning programme for National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), such as the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission, to assist them in understanding and operationalising their mandate to work on business and human rights.  The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) was set up in 2011 by Presidential decree, at the start of Myanmar's transition. It was established by law in 2014.

ဆက္စပ္ေသာ အေၾကာင္းအရာ

• Business Consultation on National Land Law Reform
• ေျမလြတ္၊ ေျမလပ္၊ ေျမ႐ိုင္း ဥပေဒျပင္ဆင္ေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သတ္ၿပီး တာဝန္ယူမႈရွိေသာရင္းႏွီးျမဳပ္ႏွံမႈအေပၚ သက္ေရာက္ႏိုင္မႈကို စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္ေၾကာင္း MCRB ၏သေဘာထားေဖာ္ထုတ္ျခင္း။
• ေျမသိမ္းဆည္းျခင္း၊ ျပန္လည္ေနရာခ်ထားျခင္းႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ျခင္း ဆိုင္ရာ ဥပေဒ မူၾကမ္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ျမန္မာ့စီးပြားေရး က႑တာဝန္ယူမႈရွိေရး အေထာက္အကူျပဳ ဌာနက လႊတ္ေတာ္သို႔ အႀကံျပဳခ်က္မ်ားေပးပို႔
• Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) of Land, Fisheries and Forests
• ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရိွ ေျမယာအခြင့္အေရးမ်ားႏွင့္ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား အႏွစ္ခ်ဳပ္စာေစာင္ကို ၿပင္ဆင္ေရးသားရန္ ေဆြးေႏြးေတြ႔ဆံုပြဲ

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