The European Union should back UN inquiry on Burma

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) today called on the EU and its Member States to press for a United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) to be set up to investigate serious on-going human rights violations in Burma/Myanmar […]

ကရင္နီ အမ်ဳိးသား တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ ဗဟို ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ သေဘာထား ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခ်က္ အမွတ္- ၀၃/ ၂၀၁၁

ဗမာျပည္တြင္း စစ္မွန္ေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသား ေသြးစည္းညီညြတ္မွဳႏွင့္ စစ္မွန္ေသာ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေျပလည္မွဳတို႕ အတြက္ အမ်ဳိးသားရင္ၾကားေစ့ေရးကို ႏိုင္ငံေရးနည္းလမ္းမွ တဆင့္ ေဆြးေႏြးၫိွႏွဳိင္း အေျဖရွာျခင္းႏွင့္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာ လက္နက္ကိုင္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ားအတြက္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲသြားေရးတုိ႕အတြက္ ကိုယ္တိုင္ပါ၀င္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇူလွဳိင္လ ၂၈ ရက္ေန႕စြဲျဖင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္မွ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးကာ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ အစိုးရ၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားသို႕ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာေပးပို႕သည့္အေပၚ မိမိတို႕ ကရင္နီအမ်ဳိးသားတိုးတက္ေရးပါတီမွ အေလးအနက္ ၾကိဳဆိုေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း အသိေပးထုတ္ျပန္အပ္ပါသည္။ […]

Support Now! Enough of “Wait and See”

For more than six decades, successive juntas have waged military and political war in many manners within Burma. In their latest military attacks, fighter jets from Russia and helicopters from India bought with funds received from offshore oil and gas ventures are being used against ethnic nationalities […]

Canadian Ambassador presented Honorary Doctorate Law degrees to Suu Kyi

Canadian Ambassador to Burma, Ron Hoffmann, presented two honorary doctorate law degrees to the Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on behalf of two universities in Canada – shortly before a meeting with Burma’s new President Thein Sein taking place in Naypyidaw. The two accolades delivered by the ambassador two weeks ago in Rangoon are from Carleton university of Ottawa and Memorial University of Newfoundland […]

Open Letter to President Thein Sein and Ethnic Armed Groups

(Unofficial Translation)

The (post-independence) Union of Burma was co-founded by different nationalities. Like siblings from a single family, all these nationalities had cohabited this land since time immemorial. Therefore, forging peaceful ties and unity among the nationalities is of paramount importance […]

ဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား ထံသို႕ေပးပို႕ေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာ

ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သည္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးစုမ်ားႏွင့္ ေပါင္းစပ္ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားေသာ ႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ယင္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား အားလံုးသည္ ႏွစ္ပရိေစၦဒ မ်ားစြာကပင္ တေျမတည္းေန တေရတည္းေသာက္ အတူေနထိုင္ခဲ့ၾကေသာ ညီအစ္ကို ေမာင္နမမ်ား ျဖစ္ၾကပါသည္ […]

Growing Crisis In Burma – Ban Ki-moon Must Take The Lead

Burma Campaign UK today renewed its call for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take the lead in international efforts to free political prisoners in Burma, and persuade the dictatorship to enter into genuine high level dialogue.

Letters and postcards from 2,500 supporters of Burma Campaign UK will be sent to the UN Secretary General today […]

EU Must Back Burma Crimes Inquiry At UN General Assembly

Burma Campaign UK today publishes an updated and expanded Briefing Paper – UN General Assembly and Crimes in Burma – highlighting how the UN General Assembly has failed to establish a UN Commission of Inquiry which could help reduce human rights abuses in Burma […]

KESAN Report Endangered Elephant Need Protection

Today, the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN) announces the results of their report, Endangered Elephants in Megatha Forest, Karen State, Burma. KESAN researchers found evidence that Megatha Forest is home to 15-18 elephants in 2-3 small groups of 3-7 individuals […]

Burmese Regime Neglecting Environmental Protection

New Report Highlights Need for Sound Environment and Development Policy Framework in Post-Election Burma

A new report highlights how Burma lacks any meaningful frameworks on environmental protection and sustainable development that would enable citizens to take part in decision-making about their country’s development, despite a recent transition to a military-dominated parliamentary political system […]