Denmark and Latvia Support UN Burma Inquiry

Two more European countries have expressed support for international investigations into human rights abuses in Burma, following protests in London targeting six European countries. Latvia stated it supports a UN Commission of Inquiry; ‘in principle’, while Denmark stated it; ‘supports in principle the establishment of an international investigation into human rights abuses in Burma […]

Progress report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana

Myanmar undertook national elections for the first time in over two decades on 7 November 2010. One week later, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released unconditionally upon the end of her house arrest term. The new national parliament began meeting on 31 January 2011. Amidst much uncertainty, there appears to be some cautious optimism that positive change may be possible. Among those changes that the people of Myanmar dare to hope for is the realization of their economic, social and cultural rights. For this reason, the Special Rapporteur begins to address in the present report the subject of economic, social and cultural rights, starting with the right to education.

The Special Rapporteur also reiterates his call for a Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity and war crimes […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (058/2011)

* ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းေဒသၾကီး လႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒ ဦးစိန္တင္ဝင္းက မတ္လ ၁ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ (၅) မိနစ္ၾကာျပဳလုပ္သည့္ တိုင္းလႊတ္ေတာ္ အစည္းအေဝးတြင္ ဥပေဒျပဳစုေရးဆိုင္ရာႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ဳိးမ်ားအေရးဆိုင္ရာ ေကာ္မတီ ၂ ရပ္အတြက္ အမည္စာရင္းမ်ား တင္သြင္းခဲ့ျပီး အစည္းအေဝးကို ရပ္နားလိုက္သည္
* နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ အသြင္ကူေျပာင္းေရးကို လက္မခံေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ဖြဲ႕မ်ား၏ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ေဒသမ်ားကို ျဖတ္ေလးျဖတ္ အစီအစဥ္ျဖင့္ ေခ်မႈန္းရန္ စစ္အစိုးရေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားက ညႊန္ၾကားထားသည္

UN says Burma ‘a regional burden’

Increasing numbers of Burmese asylum-seekers in Southeast Asian states is evidence that Burma’s domestic crises are having a negative impact on the region, a top UN official has said […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (056/2011)

* စစ္အစိုးရ ဖိအားမ်ားကို စုေပါင္းကာကြယ္ရန္အတြက္ အပစ္ရပ္ႏွင့္ အပစ္မရပ္တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕ ၁၂ဖြဲ႕ပါသည့္ ညီညႊတ္ေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား ဖက္ဒရယ္ေကာင္စီ (ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ) United Nationalities Federal Council (Union of Burma) ကို ေဖေဖၚဝါရီ ၁၇ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းလိုက္သည္။
* ကာကြယ္ေရး ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္အျဖစ္ လ်ာထားခဲ့ျပီးမွ ကာကြယ္ေရးဝန္ၾကီးအျဖစ္ ခန္႕အပ္ရန္ စီစဥ္ခဲ့ေသာေၾကာင့္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီး သန္းေရႊကုိ ေစာဒကတက္ ျပန္လည္ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ေသာ ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီး သူရျမင့္ေအာင္အား ရာထူးမွ ဖယ္ရွားလုိက္ျခင္းအေပၚ စစ္တပ္ အရာရွိအမ်ားစုက မေက်မနပ္ျဖစ္ေနၾကေၾကာင္း စစ္တပ္အရာရွိမ်ားက ေျပာသည္ […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (055/2011)

* ေဖေဖၚဝါရီ ၈ ရက္တြင္ က်င္းကသည့္ အစိုးရလႊတ္ေတာ္အစည္းအေဝးတြင္ သမၼတသစ္ ဦးသိန္းစိန္က ၎ဖြဲ႕မည့္ အစိုးရသစ္တြင္ သမၼတရံုး ဝန္ၾကီးဌာနႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ့စက္မႈဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးေရးဝန္ၾကီးဌာနဆိုသည့္ ဌာနႏွစ္ခု အသစ္တိုး၍ စုစုေပါင္းဝန္ၾကီးဌာန ၃၄ ခုျဖင့္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းရန္ အဆိုတင္သြင္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစု NDF အမတ္ဦးဘုန္းျမင့္ေအာင္ ေျပာသည္
* ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ေဝၚေလေဒသတြင္ ဝင္ေရာက္လႈပ္ရွားေနသည့္ နအဖစစ္တပ္မ်ားသည္ KNU ေထာင္ထားသည့္ မိုင္းနင္းမိေသာေၾကာင့္ ေဝၚေလေက်းရြာမွ လူေနအိမ္ (၁၁) လံုးကို အေၾကာင္းမဲ မီးရႈိ႕ဖ်က္ဆီးခဲ့သည္ဟု နယ္ေျမခံမ်ားက ေျပာသည္ […]

Open Letter to ASEAN Nations: Widespread Human Rights Violations In Burma Ignored by ASEAN UPR Delegates

Your Excellencies,

We are writing to you to express our dismay at the statements by ASEAN Member States during the Interactive Dialogue of the Universal Periodic Review of Burma.

On 27 January 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council examined Burma’s human rights record during the country’s first Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This review provided a vital opportunity to highlight the widespread human rights violations in Burma and engage with the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) on ways to improve its human rights record […]

KNU Update on Impacts Resulting from Hatgyi Dam Construction

On August 4th, 2009 we, the KNU, issued a statement concerning the Hatgyi dam construction project. In the statement, we called upon the countries investing in construction of the dam to withdraw their investment as the construction of the dam would cause massive damage to the environment and bring on widespread human rights violations against local populations in the form of burning down of villages, looting of property, crop destruction, killing of livestock, extortion of money, torture and killing of suspects, rape of women, forced relocation and forced labor by troops of the SPDC military dictatorship […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (054/2011)

* လႊတ္ေတာထဲတြင္ အျငင္းအခံုကိစၥမ်ားသည္ အခ်ိန္ကုန္ခံအလုပ္ျဖစ္မည္ မဟုတ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ခြင့္ျပဳမည္မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ဇန္နဝါရီ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႕က အမ်ဳိးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒ အျဖစ္ ေရြးခ်ယ္တင္ေျမာက္ခံခဲ့ရသူ ဦးခင္ေအာင္ျမင့္က ေျပာဆိုလိုက္သည္။
* တိုးတက္ေသာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား တပ္မေတာ္ (DKBA) တပ္မဟာ ၅ မွ ဗိုလ္မွဴးၾကီး ေစာေက်ာ္သက္က စစ္ေရးအရ ပူးေပါင္း ကူညီရန္ ရွမ္းျပည္ တပ္မေတာ္ ေတာင္ပိုင္း (SSA-S) ထံ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္အပတ္က သြားေရာက္ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည္ […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (053/2011)

* စစ္အစိုးရအဖဲြ႔၌ လက္ရွိတာ၀န္ ထမ္းေဆာင္ ေနၾကေသာ အစိုးရ အဖြဲ႔၀န္ႀကီးမ်ားသည္ လက္ရွိရာထူးမ်ားကို မႏုတ္ထြက္ဘဲ လႊတ္ေတာ္ တက္ၾကမည္ဟု ၾကံ့ဖြံ႕ပါတီ၏ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ တစ္ဦးျဖစ္သူ ထိပ္တန္း စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္ ေဇကမာၻ ဦးခင္ေရႊက ေျပာသည္။
* အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (NLD) အေနျဖင့္ တရားဝင္ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီအျဖစ္ ဆက္လက္ ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ အထူးအယူခံဝင္ထားသည့္ကိစၥကို ေနျပည္ေတာ္ တရားရံုးခ်ဳပ္က ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂၈ ရက္ေန႕က ပယ္ခ်လိုက္ေသာ္လည္း ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္စီတြင္ တင္သြင္းမည္ျဖစ္ျပီး ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ဥပေဒနည္းလမ္းအရ ဆက္လက္ ၾကိဳးပမ္းသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း NLD ဒု-ဥကၠ႒ ဦးတင္ဦးက ေျပာသည္ […]