to defend women's human rights issues. In a press release on 16 December 2005 the US State Department said UN involvement in Burma was essential and listed illicit narcotics, human rights abuses and political repression as serious problems that the UN needed to address. According to Human Rights Defenders and Promoters (HRDP), on 18 April 2007, several of its members (Myint Aye, Maung Maung Lay, Tin Maung Oo and Yin Kyi) were met by approximately a hundred people led by a local official, U Nyunt Oo, and beaten up. Due to the attack, Myint Hlaing and Maung Maung Lay were badly injured and subsequently hospitalised. The HRDP alleged that this attack was condoned by the authorities and vowed to take legal action. Human Rights Defenders and Promoters was formed in 2002 to raise awareness among the people of Burma about their human rights. 2010s In April 2019, the UN appointed an American prosecutor as head of an independent team that will probe human rights violations in Myanmar's volatile Rakhine state, focusing on atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims. However, Myanmar's ruling political party National League for Democracy disapproved of the new UN investigative mechanism. 2020s On 14 August 2022, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet began a four-day official visit to Bangladesh. This is the first official visit by a UN Human Rights Chief to the country. Ms. Bachelet will go to Cox’s Bazar where she will be able to visit camps housing Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and meet with refugees. See also Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Internet censorship in Myanmar Women's rights in Myanmar LGBT rights in Myanmar Burma VJ Burma Center Prague References External links Burmese soldiers target Christians in recent attacks – 2 November, 2011 Human Rights Watch: Burma Burma Campaign UK Collection of reports on issues in Burma, maintained by Burma Center Prague Amnesty International report on prisoners of conscience International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' Burma Campaign Freedom House's Burma ratings Minorities in Burma and Burma: Time for Change by Minority Rights Group International Licence to rape, a report on the Burmese military regime's use of sexual violence in Shan State, by The Shan Human Rights Foundation and The Shan Women's Action Network Karen Human Rights Group, Documenting the voices of villagers in rural Burma Refugees International on Burmese refugees Burma Project (Open Society Institute) The Free Burma Coalition Censorship in Burma: IFEX