Provision Summary Right at stake References in reports by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar since 2011 Creates a state regulated system for changing religion, which requires application, justification, and registration for conversion, followed by an interview, mandated study, and approval by the Registration Board. Right to freedom of religion and belief A/70/412 paras. 76 and 81 (d); A/HRC/28/72 paras. 28 and 67(b) Refers to ‘population control’, which could be seen as regressive and coercive approach to population and development. Sexual and reproductive health and rights A/70/412 para 76 and 81(d); A/HRC/28/72 para 28 and 67(b) Minorities and citizenship Religious Conversion Law (2015) 2 (c), 5, 7, 10 Population Control 2 Health-care Law (2015) Buddhist Women’s Special Marriage Law (2015) 14 (f) Provides a list of functions and duties of township groups including ‘organizing’ married couples to practice 36-month birth spacing between pregnancies. 9 (c ) Requires Buddhist women above 18 and under age 20 to seek parental Right to marry consent to enter into marriage with non-Buddhist men. This requirement is Right to not imposed on Buddhist men. equality and nonProvides that a cohabiting couple, where the female partner is Buddhist and discrimination the male partner is not, shall be assumed to have married in certain circumstances. The Buddhist women’s parents, guardians or relatives may provide information about this cohabitation which can result in the couple being forced to marry or being sued in court. The provision is only applicable to Buddhist women cohabiting with non-Buddhist men. 26, 27 32 A/70/412 para. 76 and 81(d), A/HRC/28/72 para 29 and 67(b) Provides protections against some forms of domestic violence for Buddhist women married to men of other faiths but does not extend these protections to all women. In cases of separation, dissolution of marriage or divorce, non-Buddhist fathers are denied custody of children in all circumstances. 24, 39, 40 Impose broad and vague obligations on non-Buddhist men married to Buddhist women such as not to “insult, in words or in writing or through visible representation or gesture, with bad intention to cause bitter feeling to the Buddhist”. Penalties for breach of these obligations include possible prison sentences. Monogamy Law (2015) 10, 16, 17 Impose criminal penalties for extramarital relationships. Right to privacy A/70/412 para 76 and 81(d), A/HRC/28/72 Right to nonpara 29 and 67(b) discrimination Citizenship Law (1982) Right to equality and nondiscrimination 3 (1) Gives full citizenship only to those ethnic groups which settled in Myanmar prior to 1823 AD. 35 Allows the revocation of associate citizenship on vague grounds of ‘disaffection or disloyalty’ to the state or offences ‘involving moral A/70/412 para 41 and 81(b), A/HRC/28/72 para 67(e), A/69/398 para 12 and 53, A/HRC/25/64 para 49 and 83(f), A/68/397 para 57 and 91(n), A/HRC/31/71 26 Legislation