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Members of U.S. Congress Call On President Obama to Lead Establishment of International Commission of Inquiry in Burma
The U. S. Campaign for Burma (USCB), a Washington, DC-based grassroots organization campaigning to end crimes against humanity and the culture of impunity in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, today welcomes the call made by Members of U.S. Congress, urging President Obama to “redouble the United States efforts, at the highest levels, to establish the (UN) Commission (of Inquiry)”. A bi-partisan group of 31 Members of the House of Representatives made their call in the letter they sent to President Obama on April 28, 2011 […]
• • •Human Rights Experts Call on ASEAN to Support an Investigation into Violations in Burma
The Vice-Chair of the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission, Mr. Nurkholis, today called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to support a UN investigation into business and human rights violations in Burma. Mr. Nurkholis made his statement as a member of the experts panel at regional civil society’s first Public Hearing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Human Rights in ASEAN held in Jakarta today […]
• • •Press Conference: ASEAN’s Role in Promoting Human Rights and Democratization in Burma
Burma’s independent civil society will hold a press conference to raise concerns about the lack of genuine political change since the November 2010 elections, the escalating armed conflict in Eastern Burma, and ongoing human rights violations throughout the country. Under the banner of the Task Force on ASEAN Burma (TFAB), representatives of many Burma organizations have come together to call on ASEAN to live up to its stated commitments of promoting justice and human rights. Speakers will present several concrete recommendations to ASEAN and member states to help improve the human rights situation and lack of genuine democratization in Burma.[…]
• • •ASEAN Civil Society to Hold First Hearing on CSR
Southeast Asia civil society’s first public hearing on Corporate Social Responsibility and ASEAN will be held in Jakarta on Monday, May 2, from 10am-4pm. The venue is the Yayasan Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Indonesia (YLBHI) office, Jl. Diponegoro No. 74, Jakarta Pusat […]
• • •Escalation of Civil War in Burma Necessitates Immediate Halt to Salween Dam Plans
Following recent heavy fighting in northern Shan State, all the planned Salween dam sites in Burma now lie directly in active conflict zones. The Salween Watch Coalition is therefore demanding an immediate halt to all plans […]
• • •Burma Representatives to Attend Regional Civil Society Conference in Jakarta
Eighteen representatives from Burma’s civil society, including members of the Task Force on ASEAN and Burma, will be traveling to Jakarta, Indonesia to participate in the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum 2011 (ACSC/APF) from 3 to 5 May, and associated events […]
• • •တရားဥပေဒစိုးမိုးေရးအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံေပးစာ
ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံသို႕ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုတိယဥကၠ႒ ဦးတင္ဦးက ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဧျပီလ ၅ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ စာအမွတ္ – ၀၂၈ (စည္း)/၀၄/၁၁ ျဖင့္ေပးပို႕ခဲ့ေသာ စာပါအေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားကို အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႕၏ […]
• • •Asian Civil Society Calls for Stronger Support for the ICC
Meeting in the Philippines last week, several Coalition members called on Asian governments and other relevant stakeholders to support justice for the most serious crimes by joining the International Criminal Court (ICC) […]
• • •AAPP Endorses US President Obama’s Appointment of Derek Mitchell as Special Representative for Burma
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners endorses US President Barack Obama’s appointment of Derek Mitchell as the US Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma […]
• • •AAPP has grave concerns for NLD member denied urgent medical treatment
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) has grave concerns for political prisoner, Ko Min Aung, after learning he has been denied urgent medical care for the past 11 months despite suffering from heart disease […]
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