"The 55th session of the United Nations (?UN?) Commission on Human Rights (?CHR?) was held over six weeks in March and April 1999, in Geneva, Switzerland. This article provides an assessment of the CHR?s 55th session and its relevance to Burma: what human rights issues were raised and what did relevant governments and NGOs say and do. Summarising the relevant parts of the 1999 CHR discussions and decisions, this article presents an overview of the meeting?s deliberations on Burma. The article does not analyse every matter discussed but mainly summarises or extracts statements made, and documents distributed, at the CHR. This practice is followed even where the accuracy of the information may be questioned, for example, the military junta described Burma to the 1999 CHR as a "country experiencing peace and tranquillity..."