Summary: "Foreign investment in Myanmar has been increasing since 2012, after political and economic reforms by the Myanmar government led Western States to ease sanctions that had previously been imposed on the country. Such investment can improve the lives of the people of Myanmar. However, Amnesty International and other civil society groups have major concerns that basic legal safeguards are not yet in place to ensure that investment projects ? especially large extractive projects ? do not infringe on the human rights of persons living in communities in the vicinity. Amnesty International has conducted a detailed investigation into illegality and related serious human rights abuses linked to the Monywa copper mining project.2 These include forced evictions to make way for mining operations; violent repression of protests by Myanmar authorities; and environmental impacts posing a threat to local people?s health and access to safe drinking water. The corporate actors involved, which include Canadian, Chinese, and Myanmar companies, have profited from and in some cases colluded with the Myanmar authorities in these abuses ? yet the governments of China, Canada and Myanmar have failed to carry out proper investigations and hold the companies to account. These concerns are not unique to the Monywa project. Amnesty International urges the Human Rights Council to address corporate abuses in any forthcoming resolution on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. The Government of Myanmar should investigate and remedy past abuses at Monywa, and impose stronger legal safeguards to protect people from corporate human rights abuses. The organisation also calls for specific action by the home State governments of companies involved in the Monywa project, and for all governments to require companies entering Myanmar to carry out enhanced human rights due diligence...".....Written NGO statement to the 28th Session of UN Human Rights Council.