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Statement of civil society organization on students’ actions against National Education Law following the overdue 60-day deadline for negotiation

By by 63 Civil Society Organizations  •  January 23, 2015

Statement of civil society organization on students’ actions against National Education Law following the overdue 60-day deadline for negotiation

1. Education sector reform during transition period is very important and vital for the future of Myanmar
2. The 60-day period for negotiation declared by students has passed and students have resumed their protest activities against the National Education Law. Student from Mandalay have begun their march from Mandalay to Yangon on the 20 January while students from other parts of the country have carried out their protest activities in their respective areas as well.
3. We, the undersigned civil society organizations,fully support the student’s demand for negotiation for 11 points of amendments to the National Education Law which are important and fundamental requirement for Myanmar’s future democratic education system.
4. Weurge the government authorities to completely avoid committing any kind of violence against the students whether it is during the daytime when students are carrying out their protest activities or night time when students are resting and violence against them will go unseen.
5. We also urge the government and parliaments to begin dialogue with the students for amendment of the National Education Law without delay and resolve the matter peacefully.
6. We strongly urge the international community especially international governments and international non-governmental organizations providing either financial and/or technical assistances for education sector reform to ensure that the objectives of their assistances is to genuinely and effectively support the National Education Law’s compliance with democracy and human rights principles and to encourage the Myanmar government and parliament to begin dialogue with students.

Endorsed by

1. အၾကမ္းမဖက္တရားမွ်တမႈေပၚေပါက္ေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈေကာ္မတီ
2. အၿဖဴေရာင္တြဲလက္မ်ား
3. လူမႈဘ၀ ဖြံ ့ၿဖိဳးတုိးတတ္ေရးအဖြဲ ့
4. National Youth Congress (အမ်ိဳးသားလူငယ္ကြန္ဂရက္)
5. Action Committee for Democracy and Development (ACDD)
6. Generation Wave
7. Public Welfare Network
8. ကရင္နီျပည္ လူငယ္မ်ား သမဂၢ (UKSY)
9. Triangle Women Support Group
10. သင့္ျမတ္လိုသူမ်ား ဘာသာေပါင္းစံု လူငယ္မ်ားအဖဲြ႔
11. Human Rights Defenders and Promoters-HRDP
12. Green Network Sustainable Environment Group, Magway
13. Magway EITI Watch Group, Magway.
14. Hands of Unity Group, Magway
15. Management & English Learning Center, Magway
16. Social Care Volunteer Group, Magway
17. Farmer Right and Development Organization, Magway
18. Mintae’ Village Development Group, Pwint Byu
19. Organic Agro & Farmer Affair Development Group, Pwint Byu
20. Green Future Environmental Activities Group, Yenangyaung
21. ပံုေတာင္ပံုညာ ေစာင့္ႀကည့္ေရးအဖြဲ႔, ထီးလင္း
22. ေက်ာက္ထပ္ေက်းရြာစာႀကည့္တိုက္, အထက္ မင္းလွ
23. အနာဂတ္အလင္း
24. Freethinkers
25. Youth Development Network
26. ျကို႔ပင္ေကာက္လူငယ္ကြန္ယက္
27. ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလူငယ္အဖြဲ႕ (နတ္တလင္း)
28. ဥေပကၡာလူမႈကူညီေရး (ေပါင္းတည္)
29. FREELAND Organization (Lashio)
30. Northern Shan State Youth Network
31. ကရုဏာလက္မ်ား (မိတၳီလာ)
32. မိတီၳလာလူငယ္ကြန္ယက္
33. ပ်ိဳးခင္းသစ္ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္း (မအူပင္)
34. ComReG
35. လက္တြဲကူမယ္ျပည္လူငယ္
36. ေမတၱာရိပ္ (ေတာင္ငူ)
37. အစၥလာန္လူငယ္အဖြဲ႕
38. စိမ္းေရာင္စို (တံတားဦး)
39. AWDO ဧရာဝတီ ျမစ္အေနာက္ဖက္ ဖြံၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးအင္အားစု
40. လြတ္လပ္ေသာ အ႐ိႈခ်င္းမ်ားအင္အားစု (ငဖဲၿမိဳ႕၊ မေကြးတိုင္း)
41. အထက္ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေရွ႕ေနမ်ားကြန္ရက္
42. Equality Myanmar
43. United ACT
44. Colors Rainbow
45. Ray of Rainbow
46. ဧရာဝတီလူငယ္ကြန္ယက္
47. မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ (ရွမ္းျပည္)
48. Farmers and Landworkers Union (Myanmar)
49. ကဗ်ာခ်စ္သူမ်ားအသင္း
50. Center for Youth and Social Harmony
51. Voluntary Internship Program
52. Forum for Democracy in Burma
53. Students and Youth Congress of Burma
54. Burma Partnership
55. ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေရွ႕ေနမ်ားကြန္ယက္
56. Women’s League of Burma
57. Kaung Rwai Social Action Network
58. The Seagull
59. ေရႊမင္းသားေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္း
60. Mandalay Islam Student Youth (MISY)
61. Women and Peace Action Network (Shan State)
62. Back Pack Health Workers Team (BPHWT)
63. We Generation

Tags: Burma Government, by 63 Civil Society Organizations, National Education Law, Peaceful Protest, students

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