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APHR: Release of Political Prisoners in Myanmar Represents a Positive Step
JAKARTA, 11 April 2016 — Parliamentarians from across Southeast Asia welcomed the release of over 100 political prisoners in Myanmar, expressing their hope that the long-awaited move represents a sign of the new government’s commitment to addressing the country’s human rights challenges […]
• • •AAPP Welcomes State Counsellors Statement on the Release of Political Prisoners
AAPP welcomes the statement from the State Counsellors office on April 7 2016 concerning the intended release of political prisoners in Burma […]
• • •ဗမာႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢမ်ားအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ၏ သေဘာထားေၾကညာခ်က္
(၁) ဒီမိုကေရစီပညာေရးသပိတ္စစ္ေၾကာင္း ျဖဳိခြဲခံရျပီးေနာက္ သာယာဝတီအက်ဥ္းေထာင္အတြင္း (၁)ႏွစ္ႏွင့္(၂၉)ရက္ၾကာ ေနထိုင္ခဲ့ရေသာေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူမ်ား၊ဒီမိုကေရစီပညာေရး ၾကဳိးပမ္းခဲ့သူမ်ား၊ႏိုင္ငံေရးတက္ၾကြလႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ား၊အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ အသီးသီးတြင္ အမႈရင္ဆိုင္ေနရေသာ ေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ဖမ္းဝရမ္း ထုတ္ခံထားရသူမ်ားသည္၈. ၄. ၂၀၁၆ေန႕ညေနတြင္ ျပန္လည္လြတ္ေျမာက္လာၾကပါသည္ […]
• • •Myanmar: Release Human Rights Defenders Zaw Zaw Latt, Pwint Phyu Latt, and Zaw Win Bo
(Mandalay, April 7, 2016)—Myanmar authorities should immediately and unconditionally release human rights defenders Mr. Zaw Zaw Latt, Ms. Pwint Phyu Latt, and Mr. Zaw Win Bo, and drop all remaining charges against them, Fortify Rights said today. A verdict in a case against Zaw Zaw Latt and Pwint Phyu Latt is expected April 8, 2016 in Mandalay Region […]
• • •Appeal to the Myanmar Peoples (Charter 77-inspired Call for Grassroots Democracy)
We the endorsers of this declaration are Myanmar individuals who want to see liberty, justice and human rights prevail in our multi-ethnic multi-faith Union of Myanmar. Today our country has begun to move along the path of democratization, peace and harmony […]
• • •NLD-led government must act to end Rohingya crisis
Members of the European Burma Network (EBN) call upon the new government of Burma to act swiftly to start to address the Rohingya crisis in Burma/Myanmar […]
• • •PSLF Letter to International Community
The Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) urgently requests the international community to assist with the protection of civilians in Northern Shan State […]
• • •Statement of Burma Health System Reform Seminar
More than ninety delegates from Burma’s ethnic health organizations, border-based community health organizations, medical professionals, academics, lawyers, women and youth organizations, education, environment, and other community-based organizations have held a Seminar on “Health Reform towards a Devolved Health System in Burma” from March 24 to 25 at a location on the border […]
• • •New Report Calls for Halt to Upper Yeywa Dam and Other Planned Dams on Namtu River
A new report launched today by Shan community groups calls for an immediate halt to the Upper Yeywa dam and other planned hydropower dams on the Namtu River, citing ongoing conflict, serious environmental and social impacts and lack of informed consent of impacted villagers […]
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