Human Rights Council holds General Debate on Human Rights Situations that require the Council’s attention

[…]JEAN-BAPTISTE MATTEI (France) In Burma, 1,200 prisoners were still not liberated. Human rights were still systematically violated and France expressed its support for the Special Rapporteur’s recommendation to establish an international commission of inquiry.[…]

Week 27: 2010 Election Watch (7-13 September)

Developments

• The Myanmar Democracy Congress and the Myanmar New Society Democratic Party failed to field at least three candidates as required by the SPDC election laws. Myanmar Democracy Congress General Secretary Kaung Htet announced that the party would boycott the upcoming elections because of the SPDC Election Commission’s “unacceptable and unsatisfactory” actions […]

Thai AICHR Rep Calls for ‘Open Doors’ in Burma

The Burmese military government should accept the UN’s proposed Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma if the regime wants to prove it has transparency, said a Thai representative at an Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (033-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖံြ႕ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားစည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ေရးပါတီ NUP တုိ႔သည္ မဲဆႏၵနယ္အမ်ားစုတြင္ အဓိကျပိဳင္ဘက္မ်ားျဖစ္လာေၾကာင္း ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္မည္႔ႏိုင္ငံေရး သမားမ်ားႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေလ႔လာသုံးသပ္သူမ်ားကေျပာသည္။ […]

Week 26: 2010 Election Watch (31 August – 6 September)

Developments

• The Zomi National Congress and the Committee Representing the People’s Parliament decided to boycott the elections.
• SPDC authorities in Dala Township, Rangoon Division, briefly detained an NLD organizer for distributing leaflets that urged people not to vote in the elections […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (032-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP က ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္ ဖလမ္းျမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္မဲအေရအတြက္ သိရွိလုိသျဖင့္ ပါတီဝင္မ်ားထံမွ ၾကိဳတင္မဲစာရင္းေကာက္ယူမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ေနသည္ဟု ျမိဳ႕နယ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္အဖြဲ႔ဝင္တစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။

Canada is to support UN Commission of Inquiry on Burma

Canadian Friends of Burma has learned that the Government of Canada is to support a UN Commission of Inquiry on Burma, according to a spokesperson to the Canadian Foreign Minister.

“Canada supports both the UN Special Rapporteur’s work on human rights abuses in Burma, and the idea of a UN Commission of Inquiry into human rights abuses by the Burmese regime,” said Ms. Catherine Loubier, a spokesperson, quoting Minister Lawrence Cannon […]

Burma Dashes Asean and UN Hopes of Disaster Cooperation

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and the United Nations are trying to put a brave face on their joint efforts over the past two years to coax the Burmese government into accepting international aid and allowing unfettered access to areas hit by natural disasters.

Many analysts believe, however, that there is no long-term commitment on the part of the Burmese leaders to change their inward looking mentality and obsessive fear of foreigners […]

Week 25: 2010 Election Watch (24-30 August)

Developments

• Union Democracy Party Chairman Thein Htay said that the party had decided to field only three candidates nationwide to protest the SPDC election laws. National Democratic Force leader Khin Muang Swe said he would not stand for election because of the SPDC Election Commission’s restrictions […]

Critics Decry Norinco Outlay on Ivanhoe’s Burmese Mine

Critics of Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines say that a recent report in Burma’s state-controlled media that Chinese weapons firm Norinco is to spend nearly US$1 billion to develop the Monywa copper project’s long-stalled second phase is further evidence that the notorious weapons firm has bought Ivanhoe’s stake in Burma’s largest mining project – a charge the Vancouver-based miner has repeatedly denied.