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ျမန္မာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္ လြတ္လပ္ ထိေရာက္မႈ မရွိဟု ေဝဖန္ခံရ

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသား လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္ (MNHRC) သည္ လြတ္လပ္မႈႏွင့္ ထိေရာက္မႈ မရွိဟု အရပ္ဘက္ လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္း မ်ားႏွင့္ အာရွေဒသတြင္းဆိုင္ရာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္း (FORUM-ASIA) တို႔က ေထာက္ျပေျပာဆိုလိုက္သည္ […]

November 19, 2015  •  Read more ➤

Outgoing Govt Urged Not to Delay on Human Rights Reforms

RANGOON — In the wake of the National League for Democracy’s emphatic election victory, and a United Nations review into Burma’s human rights record, international rights advocates have told The Irrawaddy that the current government should take action on a number of urgent rights concerns before the next administration takes office […]

November 17, 2015  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar Rights Commission Calls For Political Prisoner Amnesty Before Elections

Myanmar’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called on President Thein Sein to free all political prisoners and students jailed earlier this year for a peaceful demonstration ahead of general elections, highlighting a shortcoming in the country’s democratization process as it heads into all-inclusive polls on Nov. 8 […]

October 28, 2015  •  By RFA  •  Read more ➤

Burma’s Human Rights Commission Courts Credibility Ahead of UN Review

Burma’s human rights record over the past four and a half years will be put under the microscope next month when the country is scheduled for review by the UN Human Rights Council, just two days before a highly anticipated general election […]

October 27, 2015  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar: the political rise of Ma ba tha, the committee that protects the race and faith

“They are not even real monks, Buddhist monks are the most tolerant people in the world,” says Mr. Tin, a Muslim social activist, as we sit down in a café in central Yangon, Myanmar’s former capital […]

October 26, 2015  •  By East Online  •  Read more ➤

ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ေရြးေကာက္ ပြဲ ေၾကာင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လိုလားခ်က္ မျပည္႔ႏိုင္

၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားတုိင္းအတြက္ အေရးႀကီးေပမယ့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြ လိုလားတဲ့ ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းခ်က္ေတြကို ျပည့္၀ေစမွာ မဟုတ္ပဲ၊ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြ တန္းတူအခြင့္အေရးရဖို႔ ဆိုရင္ ဗဟိုခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္မႈကို ေလ်ာ့ခ်ေပးဖို႔နဲ႔ စစ္တပ္ရဲ႕ ၾသဇာလႊမ္းမိုးမႈကို ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ေပးဖို႔ စတဲ့ အခ်က္ႏွစ္ခ်က္ကို အဓိက လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ လိုေနတယ္လို႔ ေဒသတြင္းမွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရးနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြ စုစည္းထားတဲ့ Burma Partnership အဖြဲ႔က အစီရင္ခံစာ တစ္ေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ပါတယ္။ သတင္း အျပည့္အစံု ကို ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းထားတဲ့ ကိုရဲေခါင္က ေျပာျပပါမယ္ […]

October 10, 2015  •  Read more ➤

No Election Watershed for Ethnic Minorities: Report

RANGOON — Burma’s Nov. 8 election will do little to further the political aspirations of ethnic minority groups, a new report posits, downplaying the significance of the historic vote for long-oppressed minorities within a system of governance that will continue to centralize authority and afford powerful political prerogatives to the military, regardless of the poll’s outcome […]

October 9, 2015  •  Read more ➤

Investment Law Delayed as Rights Concerns Linger

RANGOON — With the yearlong push to introduce a new Investment Law delayed until after the election, observers have warned that more work will be required to enshrine sorely needed community protections for future investment projects […]

September 2, 2015  •  Read more ➤

Activists call for release of human rights defenders

At a workshop in Bahan township on August 27, activists from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners and the Burma Partnership said there has been a sharp rise in the human rights defenders met with arrests and oppression […]

August 31, 2015  •  Read more ➤

လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္သူမ်ား တားဆီးေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈမ်ားႀကံဳေတြ႕ေနရ

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ လူ႔အခြင့္ အေရးကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္သူ မ်ားကို အစိုးရအာဏာပုိင္အဖြဲ႕အ စည္းမ်ားက ယခုအခ်ိန္အထိ လိုက္လံေစာင့္ၾကပ္ေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈ မ်ားရွိေနေသးေၾကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား ကူညီေစာင့္ ေရွာက္ေရးအသင္း(AAPP-BP)မွ သတင္းရရွိသည္ […]

August 31, 2015  •  Read more ➤