ASEAN Must Wake Up and Take Firm Measures towards National Reconciliation in Burma

The Task Force on ASEAN and Burma welcomes the calls from ASEAN for national reconciliation and free, fair and inclusive elections in Burma. Indeed, this is what the people have been actively working towards for decade; however, brute military oppression has kept these essential needs from being realized.[…]

Elections Without A Judiciary

One of the basic prerequisites of a fair election is that agencies exist which are responsible for settling disputes that arise before, during and afterwards. These disputes take many forms, and are a normal part of electoral politics. It is essential that well-prepared institutions can address these disputes within rules that are clearly set down and understood in advance, and can resolve disputes over the rules themselves […]

Czech Republic Backs Burma Commission of Inquiry – EU Should Officially Support

The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed the Czech Republic’s support for establishing a United Nations Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. News about the Czech Republic’s support was reported on The Irrawaddy website today.

The Czech Republic is the third country to publicly support the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry, following Australia and the UK […]

ASEAN leaders should act over Myanmar’s appalling rights record

Myanmar’s appalling human rights record is a serious breach of the ASEAN charter and should be at the top of the agenda for Southeast Asian states attending the organization’s summit in Ha Noi on 8 April, Amnesty International said today […]

Over 100 ASEAN Legislators Petition for Tough Action on Myanmar’s Regime

The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) has today communicated a message from lawmakers in the ASEAN region to ASEAN leaders attending the 16th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam to urgently take tough action on Myanmar’s military regime should its negotiations and engagement to obtain a clear and tangible commitment for a free and fair elections in the country fails.

105 Members of Parliament from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Singapore endorsed a petition urging discussion and robust action on the issue of Myanmar.[…]

Displaced Childhoods: Human Rights and International Crimes against Burma’s Internally Displaced Children

Displaced Childhoods is the first comprehensive report which documents the experiences of internally displaced children against the backdrop of Burma’s obligations under domestic and international law. Burma’s children have been scarred by death, destruction, loss and neglect at the hands of Burma’s military […]

A Message to the People of Burma

1. The National League for Democracy (NLD) was formed with a commitment to establish democratic system in Burma, which the people of Burma demanded unanimously during the 1988 nationwide pro-democracy uprising.

Since its inception, NLD has consistently tried to; (1) Establish a true democratic government in Burma (2) Fully achieve fundamental human rights 3) Firmly lay the foundation of democracy to prevent the re-emergence of a dictatorial regime in the future (4) Perpetuate the Union with equality among all ethnic nationalities (5) Contribute for the peace in the world by improving the lives and development of the people and stability in the country of Burma […]

Statement Regarding NLD’s Non-Participation in Burma’s National Elections

Canadian Friends of Burma would like to express its strong support for the National League for Democracy (NLD)’s decision not to take part in Burma’s elections.

We are calling on the Canadian government to likewise support the NLD’s decision and to condemn the new electoral laws set in place by the military junta earlier this year.[…]

အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္၏ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားအေပၚ ေထက္ခံဝန္းရံပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ၾက

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ အင္အားစုမွ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ ခ်ဳပ္၏ ပါတီမွတ္ပုံမတင္ေရးဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ကို အျပည့္အဝေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း ေၾကညာခ်က္ တခုထုတ္ျပန္ လုိက္ပါသည္။ ထုိထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ထဲတြင္ ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပ အင္အားစုမ်ား ႏုိင္ငံတကာမိသားစုမ်ားႏွင့္ လူမ်ဳိးစုံျမန္မာျပည္သူတရပ္လုံး အေနျဖင့္ မိမိတို၏ ေရွ႕ရွိ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔ တားဆီးေနမႈမွန္သမွ်ကို အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔အတူ ေဖာက္ထြက္ေက်ာ္လႊားျပီး မိမိတုိ႔၏ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ား အျပည္႔အဝ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ ႏိုင္သည္ အထိ လက္တဲြ ဝန္းရံပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးၾကပါရန္ အေလးအနက္ တိုက္တြန္းပန္ၾကားခ်က္မ်ားလည္းပါဝင္ပါသည္။[…]

United Nations Human Rights Council: Positive Steps on Country Situations and the Protection of Human Rights Norms

Commenting on the results of its 13th session which ended on Friday March 26th , FIDH considers the United Nations Human Rights Council has taken positive steps to respond to the human rights violations committed in Guinea and Burma […]