CONTENTS:- SUMMARY... War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Northern Myanmar... Targeted Abuses and Persecution against Ethnic Rohingya and other Muslim Communities... Prisoners of Conscience... The National Human Rights Framework, the Judiciary, and Impunity..... RECOMMENDATIONS..... ANNEX: Select Fortify Rights Documentation of Human Rights Abuses in Myanmar......SUMMARY: This report was originally submitted by Fortify Rights to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on March 21, 2015 for consideration in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Myanmar?s human rights performance, which will take place November 9 at the U.N. Human Rights Council. Myanmar underwent its first UPR in January 2011, when the country was experiencing unprecedented political changes. Four years later, this report documents ongoing impunity and human rights abuses by the Myanmar government and armed forces, including abuses that Fortify Rights believes constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. This report draws primarily on several hundred eyewitness and survivor testimonies collected by Fortify Rights staff since 2013 in various locations in Myanmar. In 2011, Myanmar?s delegation to the U.N. accepted recommendations to address sexual violence, end forced labor and the recruitment of child soldiers, resolve internal armed conflict, protect the rights of minorities, and accede to and implement core human rights treaties, among others. In his inaugural address two months later, President Thein Sein committed to safeguarding human rights, strengthening the judiciary, and reforming undemocratic laws. Since the 2011 UPR process, the government of Myanmar has failed to satisfy its commitments and the human rights situation in the country remains dire. This report documents extrajudicial killings, forced labor, human shielding, torture, and other abuses by the Myanmar Army in Kachin and northern Shan states. It also documents targeted abuses and persecution against Rohingya and other Muslims in Rakhine State, including state-sponsored pogroms, widespread and systematic forced labor, avoidable deprivations in humanitarian aid, and restrictions on movement, marriage, childbirth, home repairs and construction of houses of worship, and other aspects of everyday life of the Rohingya. This report also includes information about prisoners of conscience, and documents shortcomings in the judiciary and national human rights framework, including the existence of several laws that conflict with international human rights standards or are used by Myanmar authorities to impermissibly restrict or violate human rights. Lastly, this report makes a number of detailed recommendations for the government of Myanmar to promote, protect, and fulfil human rights. The government of Myanmar should make clear commitments at the Human Rights Council and take concrete actions to end and remedy these and other ongoing abuses.