---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 10251"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "10251"
heading: "Authorization to provide technical assistance for efforts against human rights abuses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/10251"
units:
  - "Chapter 109 — Burma Unified Through Rigorous Military Accountability"
  - "Subchapter IV — Efforts Against Human Rights Abuses"
---

# §10251. Authorization to provide technical assistance for efforts against human rights abuses

- (a) **In general—** The Secretary of State is authorized to provide assistance to [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) appropriate civilian or international entities that—
  - (1) identify suspected perpetrators of [war crimes](/usc/22/10201.md?p=4), crimes against humanity, and [genocide](/usc/22/10201.md?p=3) in Burma;
  - (2) collect, document, and protect evidence of crimes in Burma and preserving the chain of custody for such evidence;
  - (3) conduct criminal investigations of such crimes; and
  - (4) [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) investigations related to Burma conducted by other countries, and by entities mandated by the United Nations, such as the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar.
- (b) **Authorization for transitional justice mechanisms—** The Secretary of State, taking into account any relevant findings in the report submitted under section 5941,[^1] is authorized to provide [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) for the establishment and operation of transitional justice mechanisms, including a hybrid tribunal, to prosecute individuals suspected of committing [war crimes](/usc/22/10201.md?p=4), crimes against humanity, or [genocide](/usc/22/10201.md?p=3) in Burma.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–263, div. E, title LV, § 5578, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3370.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 5941, referred to in subsec. (b), is unidentifiable in the original. Although Pub. L. 117–263 does contain a section 5941, that section is outside the BURMA Act of 2022, which comprises this chapter, and relates to the submission of a report by the Secretary of Agriculture on wholesale produce markets. Prior versions of the Act included a section requiring a report containing a study of the feasibility and desirability of a transitional justice mechanism for Burma, but that section did not appear in the version of the Act enacted by Pub. L. 117–263.