Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business welcomes comments on this draft from all interested stakeholders, which should be sent to [email protected] with a subject line of “Mining SWIA Consultation Draft Feedback” by Friday 14 October 2016 [note: deadline extended to 31 October]…

This Sector-Wide Impact Assessment (SWIA) is intended to sensitise government decision-makers, businesses, investors and civil society to the human rights impacts of mining. Our hope is that appropriate steps can be taken to prevent and mitigate the negative human rights impacts associated with this sector and to amplify positive human rights impacts through changes in law, policy, contracts, operations or other steps.

A SWIA assesses the impacts of a sector at three levels: (i) project-level, (ii) cumulative and (iii) sector-wide. This means that the mining SWIA addresses the impacts of specific mining operations and activities on workers and communities, as well as the impacts of the sector as a whole, on the enjoyment of human rights in Myanmar…