Report: Oil Compaies Fueling Nuclear Proliferation in Burma (Myanmar), Complicit in Targeted Killings and Forced Labour

New Figures Reveal Billion Dollar Payments to World’s Newest Nuclear Threat, French, American, and Thai Companies Concealing Payments

The oil companies Total (France), Chevron (US), and PTTEP (Thailand) have generated over US $9 billion dollars in military-ruled Burma (Myanmar) since 1998, making their Yadana Natural Gas Project the single largest source of revenue for the country’s notoriously repressive dictatorship […]

Exclusive Performance of ‘The Lady of Burma’ in European Parliament

Today, European Parliamentary Caucus on Burma (EPCB) is pleased to present ‘The Lady of Burma’ play in European Parliament in honour of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on her 65th birthday which was on 19th June 2010 […]

The First Handbook for Refugees Rights in Burmese Language Published

The Burma Refugee Organization (BRO) based in Malaysia, has just published Protecting Refugees and Their Rights by Alinsek, a Burmese human rights and social activist on 30 June 2010, as first ever handbook for refugees in Burmese language […]

One Thousand Letters Call On European Commission To Fund Cross-Border Aid

More than 1,000 supporters of Burma Campaign UK have written letters to Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner responsible for European Union aid, calling on the Commission to review its policy of refusing to fund cross-border aid to Burma […]

Did Ivanhoe secretly sell Burmese stake to cronies connected to Chinese arms firm?

A trusted source has told the Burmese opposition website Mizzima News Agency that Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines’ so called “independent trust” secretly concluded a deal last year to sell Ivanhoe’s stake in Myanmar Ivanhoe Copper Company Limited (MICCL), the joint venture created by Ivanhoe Mines and the military regime which operates Burma’s largest mine, the Monywa copper project […]

UN Must Act On G8 Call For Burma Dictatorship To Enter Into Dialogue

Burma Campaign UK today welcomed a statement by the G8, whose leaders have just held their annual summit, which calls on Burma’s dictatorship to enter into ‘substantive dialogue’ with Burma’s democracy movement, including ethnic groups. By calling for ‘substantive dialogue’ the G8 is recognising that elections due later this year will not solve the problems in Burma […]

Peoples’ Tribunal on Crimes against Women of Burma (Japan)

June 27th 2010(Sun) 1:PM to 5 PM
Aoyama Gakuin University, Hotei sitsu
Open to the Public
Information 03-3835-2110, 080-6787-0959

First-Ever Biography of Burmese Dictator Than Shwe Launched by CSW’s Burma Specialist

The first ever biography of Burma’s dictator Senior General Than Shwe will be launched on 1 July at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) in Bangkok, and on 14 July at the House of Commons in London.

Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant is authored by Benedict Rogers, East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) […]

Government of Canada is urged to support “Commission of Inquiry” on Burma

While leaders of G20 are meeting in Toronto, Parliamentary Friends of Burma (PFOB) and Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) are calling upon the Government of Canada and other world leaders to support an establishment of an UN’s “Commission of Inquiry” on “crimes against humanity” in Burma […]

Chinese Monywa deal leaves questions about Ivanhoe’s role unanswered

In response to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal that a Chinese weapons manufacturer China North Industries Corp (Norinco) signed a cooperation agreement with the Burmese regime in early June regarding the Monywa copper mine, Canadian Friends of Burma executive Director Tin Maung Htoo called on Canadian government to force Ivanhoe Mines to “disclose details surrounding the blind trust responsible for the firm’s 50% stake in Monywa copper project officially known as Myanmar Ivanhoe Copper Company Limited” […]