Leading a Common Approach to the Commission of Inquiry on Burma

Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) and Canadian civil society organizations would like to encourage the Government of Canada to play an active role in the international call for the implementation of a UN ‘Commission of Inquiry’ into gross human rights violations, specifically ‘crimes against humanity’ and ‘war crimes’ in Burma. Such an inquiry could investigate reports of human rights and humanitarian law violations in Burma, through the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, the Security Council, the General Assembly, or the office of the Secretary General […]

Burma’s Largest Coal Project Poisons Communities Near Famed Inle Lake

Burma’s largest coal mine and coal-fired power plant, located thirteen miles from Burma’s famous Inle Lake in Shan State, are polluting waterways, threatening the health of local populations, and displacing villages, according to a report released today […]

ASEAN’s new approach to Myanmar is nothing new

ASEAN’s foreign ministers just completed their two-day retreat in Lombok on Jan. 17, wherein Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa outlined the nation’s agenda and priorities for ASEAN as it assumes the association’s rotating chair […]

First Widespread Survey of Burma’s Chin State Shows Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity

In advance of the Universal Periodic Review of human rights in Burma, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) today announced findings from the first population-based survey to document human rights violations in all nine townships of Chin State. The report, “Life Under the Junta: Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity in Burma’s Chin State,” provides the first quantitative data of human rights violations against the people of Chin State in Western Burma. The report also reveals that at least eight of the violations surveyed fall within the purview of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and may constitute crimes against humanity […]

New Evidence of Abuses in Burma’s Chin State Strengthens Call for UN Commission of Inquiry

The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) today welcomed a new report published by Nobel Peace Prize winning organization Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), “Life Under the Junta: Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity in Burma’s Chin State.”

Using innovative population-based methods to document human rights violations in all nine townships of Chin State, researchers found that almost 92 percent of households surveyed had experienced forced labour at least once in the year prior to interviews […]

Burma Rivers Network Welcomes NLD’s Concerns About Nationwide Impacts of Myitsone Dam

The Burma Rivers Network (BRN) welcomes the NLD’s recent statements that dams are being constructed in Burma without any consideration for the environment or for local residents, and that the Myitsone dam, the first on the Irrawaddy, will have negative impacts on the entire country […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (051/2010)

* စစ္အစိုးရသည္ အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္မွ ၄၅ ႏွစ္အတြင္း အမ်ဳိးသားတိုင္းႏွင့္ အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္မွ ၃၅ ႏွစ္အတြင္း အမ်ဳိးသမီးတိုင္း ၂ ႏွစ္မွ ၃ ႏွစ္ အထိ စစ္မႈမထမ္းမေနရ အမိန္႕ကို လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁၇ ရက္ေန႕က ဥပေဒအျဖစ္ လွ်ိဳ႕ဝွက္ျပဌန္းခဲ့သည္ဟု NHK ဂ်ပန္ရုပ္သံသတင္းဌာနက စစ္အစိုးရ၏ တရားဝင္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ ျပန္တမ္း အေထာက္အထားကို ကိုးကား ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။
* NLD အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ တရားဝင္ပါတီအျဖစ္ ဆက္လက္ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ ေနာက္ဆံုး အထူးအယူခံလႊာကို ၾကားနာရန္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ တရားရံုးခ်ဳပ္က ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႕က လက္ခံလိုက္ျပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ ေရွ႕ေနၾကီး ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္းက ေျပာသည္ […]

Communities Displaced Due to Flooding from Dam Project

Entire communities in northwestern Karen State have been displaced due to extensive flooding from a new dam project on the Shwe Gyin River […]

ASEAN to push Myanmar on democracy, wants sanctions lifted

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) wants the U.S. and Europe to lift sanctions against member Myanmar after its recent elections and release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, it said on Sunday […]

Laos supports Burma proposal for Asean summit arrangements

Laos has supported Burma’s proposal to switch the scheduled hosting of the Asean Summit in 2014, with Laos to instead hold the regional summit in 2016 […]