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<p>The Government does not collect evidence of sexual violence. The UK has a Preventing
Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Team of Experts, made up of independent
experts who can be deployed to build the capacity of others, including governments
and the UN to collect such evidence. In March 2017 the UK co-sponsored the UN Human
Rights Council Resolution which set up a UN Fact Finding Mission (FFM) to establish
the facts and circumstances of human rights violations by military and security forces,
and abuses, in Burma. Despite repeated calls from the UK and international partners,
the Burmese authorities refused to grant the FFM access to Burma.</p>
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