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Joint Statement of the 2012 ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum
We, more than 1,200 delegates representing various civil society organizations and movements of workers from rural and urban sectors as well as the migrant sector, peasants and farmers, women, children, youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities, urban poor, Indigenous Peoples, victims of human rights violations […]
• • •Press Statement of the 2012 ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum
We, more than 1,200 delegates from all ten ASEAN countries representing various civil society organizations and movements of workers from rural and urban sectors as well as the migrant sector, peasants and farmers, women, children, youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities, urban poor, Indigenous Peoples […]
• • •Burma: By-Elections a Step, but Not Real Reform
Burma’s April 1, 2012 by-elections are a step forward, but are not a real test of the government’s commitment to democratic reform, Human Rights Watch said today. “April’s by-election in Burma will almost certainly bring opposition […]
• • •Cambodia Curtails Freedom of Expression at ASEAN Civil Society Conference
Four workshops organized by civil society organizations were forced late last night to move their workshops to La Palaranda hotel, away from the main venue of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC)/ASEAN People’s Forum (APF), the Lucky Star Hotel (on Street 336, Phnom Penh). Three of the workshops dealt with land rights, eviction and environment issues and the fourth focused on Burma’s current political and human rights situation and the challenges this poses to the country’s chairmanship of ASEAN in 2014 […]
Burma Army Burns Villagers’ Homes to the Ground
Burma Army soldiers burnt down the homes of six villagers in Nam San Yang Township in Burma’s Kachin State, near the China-Burma border, on 25 March 2012. The soldiers belong to the Tatmadaw 388 Light Infantry Division, which has been terrorizing civilians in Kachin State […]
• • •UK Must Not Abandon Burma’s Political Prisoners
Burma Campaign UK today called on British Foreign Secretary William Hague to ensure the European Union maintains pressure on the military backed government in Burma until all political prisoners are released and other key benchmarks are met […]
• • •Burma Army Ransacks Church in Bhamo District
On 13 March the Burma Army ransacked Sin Lum Pang Mu Baptist Church in Pang Mu village, located in Bhamo district. According to Reverend Jangmaw Gam Maw, pastor of Pang Mu Church, soldiers from the 33rd battalion of the Burma Army’s 88th Infantry Division […]
• • •KNU Statement on Release of Padoh Mahn Nyein Maung
A member of the Central Standing Committee of the KNU, Mahn Nyein Maung, who hand been sentenced to life plus 3 years, was released on March 19, 2012, on the pardon by President of the Union of Burma (Myanmar), U Thein Sein […]
• • •Cynical Manipulation of Legal System Prefigures Continued Authoritarianism
Two cases in Burma’s courts that recently have attracted some public attention reveal aspects of a legal system being cynically manipulated, aspects that afford strong guarantees for the continuation of authoritarian practices and mentalities […]
• • •ျပည္သူလူထုထံသို႕ အသိေပး ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ ဇြန္လ (၉) ရက္မွ စတင္ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေသာ ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္၏ စစ္ဆင္ေရးမွာ ယခုဆိုလွ်င္ (၁၀) လ ၾကာျမွင့္ခဲ့ျပီ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္ ဇႏၷဝါရီလ (၁၈) ရက္ေန႕အထိ တရုတ္ျပည္သူ႕ သမၼတႏိုင္ငံ ေရႊလီျမိဳ႕တြင္ က်င္းပခဲ့ေသာ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ ေကအိုင္အိုကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႕မွ ေဆြးေႏြးေရးအဆင့္ (၃) ဆင့္ပါရွိေသာ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္စာခ်ဳပ္အား […]
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