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EU Must Back Burma Crimes Inquiry At UN General Assembly

Burma Campaign UK today publishes an updated and expanded Briefing Paper – UN General Assembly and Crimes in Burma – highlighting how the UN General Assembly has failed to establish a UN Commission of Inquiry which could help reduce human rights abuses in Burma […]

July 25, 2011  •  By Burma Campaign UK  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

KESAN Report Endangered Elephant Need Protection

Today, the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN) announces the results of their report, Endangered Elephants in Megatha Forest, Karen State, Burma. KESAN researchers found evidence that Megatha Forest is home to 15-18 elephants in 2-3 small groups of 3-7 individuals […]

July 25, 2011  •  By Karen Environmental and Social Action Network  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burmese Regime Neglecting Environmental Protection

New Report Highlights Need for Sound Environment and Development Policy Framework in Post-Election Burma

A new report highlights how Burma lacks any meaningful frameworks on environmental protection and sustainable development that would enable citizens to take part in decision-making about their country’s development, despite a recent transition to a military-dominated parliamentary political system […]

July 25, 2011  •  By Burma Environmental Working Group  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Local Communities Launch Campaign against Thai Coal Mine and Power Plant in Eastern Shan State

Impacted communities today launched a campaign to oppose plans by Thai investors to develop a coal mine and power plant in conflict-ridden eastern Shan State […]

July 21, 2011  •  By Hark Mong Kok  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political News Summaries

The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) is continuing to produce weekly summaries of political news. To see these weekly summaries, please visit NDD’s website: www.nddfreeburma.org

July 17, 2011  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

China’s Assessment Calls for Burma’s Myitsone Dam to be Scrapped

China Power Investment Corporation is forging ahead with its controversial Myitsone dam in northern Burma despite its own assessment calling for the project to be cancelled […]

July 14, 2011  •  By Burma Rivers Network  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (076/2011)

* အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဝါရွင္တန္ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ျမန္မာသံရံုး ဒုတိယအၾကီးအကဲ သံမွဴးၾကီး ဦးေက်ာ္ဝင္းသည္ ဘက္ေျပာင္းျပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရးခိုလံႈခြင့္ ေတာင္းခံလိုက္သည့္ ကိစၥကို မိမိတို႕အေနျဖင့္ တစံုတရာ မသိေၾကာင္း ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီး ဌာနမွ တယ္လီဖုန္းျဖင့္ ျပန္လည္ေျဖဆိုသူ ဝန္ထမ္းအမ်ဳိးသမီးတစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။

* ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရးစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္ ဇူလိုင္လ ၆ ရက္ေန႕က ပုဂံျမိဳ႕သစ္သို႕ ေရာက္ရွိစဥ္ ရာႏွင့္ခ်ီသည့္ ျပည္သူမ်ားကို ပထမဆံုးအၾကိမ္အျဖစ္ ျပည္လည္စကားေျပာဆို ႏႈတ္ဆက္သျဖင့္ ေဒသခံမ်ား ဝမ္းသာေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ၾကေၾကာင္း ပုဂံျမိဳ႕သစ္ ေဒသခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္ […]

July 10, 2011  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (075/2011)

* ရုရွားလႊတ္ေတာ္အဆင့္ဆင့္ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံုႏွင့္ ေကာ္မတီမ်ား၏ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား ေလ့လာရန္အတြက္ ျပည္သူ႕လႊတ္ေတာ္ႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသား လႊတ္ေတာ္ေရးရာေကာ္မတီ ဥကၠဌ ဦးေရႊမန္း ဦးေဆာင္သည့္အဖြဲ႕သည္ ရုရွားဖက္ဒေရးရွင္းႏိုင္ငံ ဒူးမားလႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠဌ၏ ဖိတ္ၾကားခ်က္အရ ဇြန္ ၂၅ ရက္ေန႕ ရုရွားႏိုင္ငံသို႕ ထြက္ခြာသြားခဲ့သည္ဟု အမ်ဳိးသားလႊတ္ေတာ ေမာ္ကြန္းမွတ္တမ္းမ်ား ေကာ္မတီ ဥကၠဌ ေဒါက္တာေအးေမာင္က ေျပာသည္

* ဇြန္ ၃၀ ရက္ေန႕ထုတ္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရ သတင္းစာမ်ားတြင္ NLD ပါတီအား ဥပေဒလမ္းေၾကာင္းထဲမွ ႏိုင္ငံေရး လုပ္ကိုင္ရန္၊ NLD ပါတီ ျပန္လည္မွတ္ပံုတင္ရန္ႏွင့္ လာမည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ားတြင္ ဝင္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္ရန္ ေထာက္ျပထားျပီး တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးႏွင့္ ကမာၻက အသိအမွတ္ျပဳထားသည့္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံုအေျခခံ ဥပေဒႏွင့္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ကို အသိအမွတ္ မျပဳသလိုလိုႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး မကစားရန္ အသိေပး ေရးသားထားသည္ […]

July 3, 2011  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (074/2011)

* ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရးရာ ကိစၥရပ္မ်ားႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္းသည့္ ေကာ္မတီမ်ားႏွင့္ ေျပာဆိုေရးရာ အာဏာပိုင္အဖြဲ႕ အပါအဝင္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း ၂၉ ခုကို ႏိုင္ငံေတာ သမၼတရံုးမွ အမိန္႕ေၾကာ္ျငာစာအမွတ္ ၃/၂၀၁၁ ျဖင့္ ဖ်က္သိမ္းလိုက္သည္။

* ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ KIA ႏွင့္ စစ္အစိုးရ တပ္မေတာ္အၾကား တိုက္ပြဲမ်ားကို ျမစ္ၾကီးနားအမတ္ ဦးသိန္းေဇာ္ ၾကားဝင္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးမႈျဖင့္ ပံုမွန္အေျခအေနသို႕ ျပန္ေရာက္ေနျပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အမ်ဳိးသားကာကြယ္ေရးႏွင့္ လံုျခံဳေရးေကာင္စီဝင္ ျပည္သူ႕လႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒ သူရဦးေရႊမန္းက ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။

June 26, 2011  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Panel will start work on a rights declaration

The Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights is taking shape as a panel will start discussions on drafting a declaration on human rights for the Southeast Asian region during a meeting in Vientiane next Monday […]

June 24, 2011  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤