Time to Act: Enforcing the Burma Act is a matter of life and death

Two years after the Burma Act of 2022 was passed, the promises made to Myanmar’s people remain tragically unfulfilled. The act, which aims to support democracy, human rights, and humanitarian assistance in Myanmar while also imposing sanctions on the junta, was welcomed by the international community. But little has been done to implement the act, even as atrocities continue to mount.On December 10th—the same day I received the US State Department Global Human Rights Defenders Award—an airstrike killed an entire family of four, including a child, as they slept in a village in western Myanmar’s Chin State. This is not an isolated tragedy.