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Ensure representation of journalists in future interventions by international
investigative mechanisms to demonstrate international support for ensuring
accountability for crimes against freedom of expression.
To foreign governments and donor agencies:
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Draw military attention to serious human rights concerns in Myanmar and
publicly condemn all prison sentences given to journalists.
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Increase long-term support to the media, ensuring that support is sustained,
consistent, resilient, and reaches the intended beneficiaries. This should
include flexible, responsive, and unrestricted support for diverse content
creation, as well as support promoting the safety, digital security, healthcare,
and wellbeing of journalists – particularly female journalists and those
belonging to other marginalized groups.
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Increase flexible, realistically costed, and responsive support for initiatives
led by local civil society to defend journalists and media freedom in courts,
including via monitoring and assessments of the judicial system, and via
support to and training of lawyers and other relevant stakeholders. This
should include self-defense approaches and mechanisms wherever possible.
To businesses, including Meta:
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Abide by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,
including via public commitments, conducting human rights due diligence
assessments, implementing findings, and establishing processes to
remediate adverse human rights impacts.
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Support the Myanmar media by increasing businesses’ internal capacity
to provide targeted and more proactive security support to journalists and
media outlets.
To journalists and media outlets:
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Work together, such as through unions or an independent press council, to
consult on and develop policy reform proposals for any new government,
setting out specific, shared, and prioritized demands, with metrics to
measure success.
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