Varied Challenges to Civil Liberties Persist in ASEAN; Vietnamese Debate Human Rights and State Progress

Civil Liberties in Southeast Asia are under threat from government policies and actions, according to civil society participants of the “Challenges to Civil Liberties in the ASEAN Region” workshop on the 2nd day of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference / ASEAN People’s Forum 2011 […]

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Message to ASEAN Civil Society at ACSC/APF 2011

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi addresses civil society and people’s movements at the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF) 2011 in Jakarta, Indonesia […]

Members of U.S. Congress Call On President Obama to Lead Establishment of International Commission of Inquiry in Burma

The U. S. Campaign for Burma (USCB), a Washington, DC-based grassroots organization campaigning to end crimes against humanity and the culture of impunity in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, today welcomes the call made by Members of U.S. Congress, urging President Obama to “redouble the United States efforts, at the highest levels, to establish the (UN) Commission (of Inquiry)”. A bi-partisan group of 31 Members of the House of Representatives made their call in the letter they sent to President Obama on April 28, 2011 […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (066/2011)

* သမၼတသစ္ ဦးသိန္းစိန္သည္ ပထမဆံုး ျပည္ပခရီးစဥ္အျဖစ္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏိုင္ငံသို႕ သြားေရာက္လည္ပတ္မည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွိႏိုင္ငံထုတ္ Dhaka Daily Star သတင္းစာ၌ ဧျပီ ၂၂ ရက္ေန႕က ေရးသားထားသည္။

* ႏိုင္ငံေရးက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး အပါအဝင္ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးအတြက္ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးေတာင္းဆို လႈပ္ရွားမႈကို ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း သံလ်င္ျမိဳ႕ ၌ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ NLD ႏွင့္ လူမႈကြန္ယက္ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္မ်ားက ဧျပီ ၂၃ ရက္ေန႕က ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ျပီး ယခုခ်ိန္ထိ သံလ်င္ျမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ လက္မွတ္ေပါင္း ၅၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ေကာက္ခံရရွိျပီးျပီဟု သံလ်င္ NLD ဥကၠ႒ ဦးစိုးဟန္က ေျပာသည္။

First US Ambassador to Asean Expected to Press Burma

David Lee Carden, a former attorney who has been named the first US ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), will attend the Asean Summit in Indonesia next week, where he will have the opportunity to push Burma to change and discuss with Asean members whether Burma chair the organization in 2014, claim Burma activists […]

Escalation of Civil War in Burma Necessitates Immediate Halt to Salween Dam Plans

Following recent heavy fighting in northern Shan State, all the planned Salween dam sites in Burma now lie directly in active conflict zones. The Salween Watch Coalition is therefore demanding an immediate halt to all plans […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (065-2011)

*ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ BGF အၾကံေပးပုဂၢိဳလ္ ေစာခ်စ္သူက ျမဝတီျမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္းရွိ ေက်းရြာမ်ားမွ တာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ားကို ဧျပီလ ၈ ရက္ေန႕က ေရႊကုကၠိဳရြာတြင္ ေခၚယူကာ တပ္သားသစ္ (၇၅) ဦး ေတာင္းခံထားေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

*ျမန္မာႏွစ္သစ္ကူး ႏွစ္ဆန္း ၁ ရက္ေန႕ ဧျပီလ ၁၇ ရက္မွ စတင္ကာ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (NLD) အပါအဝင္ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းရွိ ဒီမိုကေရးစီေရး တက္ၾကြသူမ်ားက ဦးေဆာင္ကာ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားအားလံုး လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး လက္မွတ္ထိုးေတာင္းဆိုသည့္ လုပ္ရွားမႈကို စတင္လိုက္သည္ဟု NLD ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဦးဝင္းတင္က ေျပာသည္။

Burma Seeking to be the Chairman of Asean in 2014

Can Burma have its cake and eat it too? The answer rests with Asean. Right after the new civilian government was installed at the end of March in Naypyidaw, one of the first important tasks President Thein Sein did was to submit a letter to the Asean Secretariat stating Burma’s readiness to take up the grouping’s chair in 2014 […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (064/2011)

* ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေနမ်ားကို ေရွ႕လအတြင္း သြားေရာက္စံုစမ္းေလ့လာႏိုင္ရန္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရသစ္ထံ စာေရးေတာင္းဆို လိုက္ျပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥတာ ကင္တားနားက ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။

*နယ္ပယ္အသီးသီးတြင္ ဦးေဆာင္လႈပ္ရွားခဲ့ၾကသူ ကမာၻတဝန္းက အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားကို အားေပးဂုဏ္ျပဳေနသည့္ Vital Voices ေခၚ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအဖြဲ႕က ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ကမာၻလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ဦးေဆာင္ဦးရြက္ျပဳသူဆု ခ်ီးျမွင့္လိုက္ကာ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္၏အသံ (Voice of the Decade) အျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ဂုဏ္ျပဳလိုက္သည္။

ASEAN Urged to Speed up Talks on Migrant Worker Protection

Organizations gathered under the Taskforce on ASEAN Migrant Workers (TFAMW) group urged leaders in the region to address the issue of migrant workers by forming a regional framework this year that was legally binding on all ASEAN member states […]