Burma Environmental Working Group Issues Benchmarks for Investment in Energy, Extractive and Land Sectors in Burma

Today, the Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG) – an alliance of grassroots-based organizations – has issued its Benchmarks for Investment in Burma’s Energy, Extractive and Land Sectors to serve as a framework for responsible investment in critical sectors in Burma […]

အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးႏွင့္ပါတ္သတ္သည့္ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ – ၀၁/၂၀၁၂

ကရင္နီအမ်ဳိးသားတိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ၊ ပါတီဗဟိုေကာ္မတီမွ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္၊ မတ္လ (၁၉-၂၀) ရက္ေန႕်ားတြင္ အေရးေပၚအစည္းအေဝးတပ္ရပ္ က်င္းပခဲ့ကာ ျမန္မာအစိုးရႏွင့္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးႏွင့္ ပါတ္သက္သည့္ သေဘာထားကို ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ထုန္ျပန္ေၾကျငာအပ္ပါသည္ […]

Burma Army Moves in to Enforce Eviction Order at Myitsone

On March 17 five Burma army trucks and various government vehicles entered Tanghpre village at the Irrawaddy Myitsone dam site in an apparent attempt to enforce an eviction order and intimidate people to move out from the village […]

Burma: Reforms Yet to Reach Kachin State

The Burmese government has committed serious abuses and blocked humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of displaced civilians since June 2011, in fighting in Burma’s northern Kachin State, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today […]

Burma Army Soldiers Disrupt Christian Conference; Threaten MP at Gunpoint in Burma’s Chin State

Burma Army soldiers disrupted a Christian conference and threatened an MP at gunpoint in western Burma’s Chin State, the Chin Human Rights Organization has learned. The incident took place on 10 March during a gathering of more than 1,000 delegates […]

New Law on Demonstrations Falls Short

Burma’s new law on the right to peaceful assembly falls far short of international standards, Human Rights Watch said today. President Thein Sein signed the assembly law, the Law Relating to Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession […]

Wikileaks: Junta Crony Brokered Ivanhoe’s Burma Sale to Chinese Arms Firm

Newly disclosed American diplomatic cables made available by Wikileaks show that infamous Burmese regime crony Tay Za served as a broker in a series of transactions that saw Ivanhoe Mines 50% stake in Burma’s largest copper project […]

Investors’ Haste to Build Big Dams is Undermining Fragile Peace Process in Karen State

The push by investors to proceed with large dams in Karen areas of Burma is threatening to undermine ongoing ceasefire negotiations between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the Burmese government.

Increased Burma Army security around dam sites and blatant disregard for concerns of impacted communities are heightening tensions, and throwing into doubt the government’s sincerity in conducting ceasefire talks […]

Pado Mahn Nyein Maung Must Be Released and Grave Charges Dropped

We note that in July 2011 Pado Mahn Nyein Maung, a member of the Karen National Union (KNU) Central Committee, was deported from China to Burma and is currently under trial facing charges under the Unlawful […]

Oral Statement Prepared for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Burma in 19th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council

FIDH and and its member organization Altsean-Burma welcome the report by the Special Rapporteur and his emphasis on the situation political prisoners, institutional reforms, and accountability for gross human rights violations […]