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One in Five Children in Myanmar Go to Work Instead of Going to School, New Census Report Reveals
UNFPA, Yangon — A new census report on employment in Myanmar shows that one in five children aged 10-17 go to work instead of going to school. This is 1.6 million children, or 21 per cent of children aged 10-17. The report also highlights a profound gender gap in the country’s labour market […]
• • •Mi Karen Villagers Pray for Protection of Their Land and Natural Resources Threatened by Proposed Cement Project
Hpa-an, Myanmar – Local Karen villagers gathered at the base of Mi Karen mountain in Hpa-an township, Karen State on Tuesday 29 March to pray for the protection of their land and natural resources. They organized the public prayer service in response to a recently revived proposal to develop a limestone quarry and cement factory in their village […]
• • •တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးထားသည့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေဝး ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
၁။ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ ေအာက္တိုဘာလ (၁၅) ရက္ေန႔၌ ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအစိုးရႏွင့္အတူ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ (NCA) ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးခဲ့သည့္ တိုင္း ရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေဝးကို ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ၊ ခ်င္းမိုင္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္၊ မတ္လ (၂၄) မွ (၂၆) အထိေအာင္ျမင္စြာက်င္းပၿပီးစီးခဲ့ပါသည္။ ယင္း ထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေဝးသို႔ ထိပ္သီးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ ေလ့လာသူမ်ား ႏွင့္ နည္းပညာ အၾကံေပးမ်ား အပါအဝင္ စုစုေပါင္း (၇၉) ဦး ပါဝင္တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္ […]
• • •ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အရပ္ဖက္လူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကြန္ယက္၏သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္းမွီတင္းေနထိုင္ေသာ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစံုံု ပါ၀င္သည့္ အရပ္ဘက္လူ႕အဖြဲ႕ အစည္းျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ကြန္ယက္ (Civil Society Network for Peace (CSNeP-Kachin State) သည္ မိမိျပည္နယ္အတြင္း တရားမွ် တ၍ ေရရွည္တံ့ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာယာ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္သည့္ လူ႕ေဘာင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းျဖစ္လာရန္ ရည္ရြယ္ကာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား အတူတကြ ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္ေသာ တတိယအၾကိမ္ေျမာက္ ဖိုရမ္ကို ပါ၀င္သူ (၁၆၂) ဦး၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေပါင္း ( 30 ) ဖြဲ႕တုိ႕သည္ ၂၅-၂၆ မတ္လ ၂၀၁၆ ရက္မ်ား တြင္ျမစ္ၾကီးနားျမိဳ႕၌ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရာ ေအာက္ပါသေဘာထားမ်ားကို ထုတ္ျပန္အပ္ပါသည္ […]
• • •FORUM-ASIA Welcomes the Adoption of the UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Burma/Myanmar
(Bangkok, Geneva, 25 March 2016) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) welcomes the adoption of a resolution on Burma/Myanmar at the 31st session of the United Nations Human rights Council yesterday […]
• • •Myanmar: New Government must Break Vicious Cycle of Repression and Political Arrests
Myanmar’s new government will take office with a historic opportunity to change course on human rights but must break away from the deeply repressive legal framework that for years has fuelled arbitrary arrests and repression, Amnesty International said in a new report today […]
• • •Bottom-up, Community-driven Development Model Presents a Sustainable Future for Villagers and the Natural Environment in Tanintharyi Region
Rangoon – (24 March, 2016) – In a region bearing the brunt of top-down development and conservation policies and processes, local communities in Kamoethway River Valley, Tanintharyi Region have designed and are implementing their own, sustainable, locally-led development process, one that benefits both the natural environment and the indigenous people who have resided there for generations, Tenasserim River Indigenous People Network (TRIP-NET) outlined in a report launched today […]
• • •UN Review Shows Lack of Progress Made by the Outgoing Government
Burma/Myanmar’s response to its second cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council) reflects the lack of progress made by the outgoing government and the need for key human rights challenges to be addressed, representatives who attended the Council said today […]
• • •Joint Statement on Targeting of Ta’ang Civilian Populations and Human Rights Violations by the Myanmar Tatmadaw
We strongly condemn and protest the targeting of Ta’ang civilian populations by the Myanmar Tatmadaw in its attacks, since February 2016, in the Ta’ang Region of Northern Shan State. The Myanmar Tatmadaw has sent in massive military forces, and this has resulted in gross human rights violations […]
• • •United States: Assign Tier-3 Rankings to Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia in Annual Trafficking Report
(Washington, D.C., March 22, 2016)—The U.S. Department of State should assign the governments of Myanmar, Thailand, and Malaysia the lowest ranking in its forthcoming Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, Fortify Rights said today […]
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