As the Human Rights Council meets to negotiate a draft resolution on the situation in Myanmar, International Service for Human Rights has published a briefing calling for the protection of human rights defenders in Myanmar.

It highlights concerns over laws that unreasonably "unreasonably restrict the rights to freedom of expression and assembly and which are increasingly employed to criminalise human rights defenders and censor journalists."

And it documents reports on the use of reprisals and force against people who protest in relation to major development projects.