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The United Nations Urged to Reject the Military Regime’s Election in Burma
Crimes against Humanity by the Regime Should Be Investigated
The United States Campaign for Burma, a leading coalition of Burmese activists in exile and American human rights campaigners working to promote freedom, justice and democracy in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, wholeheartedly supports the decision of the National League for Democracy (NLD), to boycott the regime’s sham election […]
Civil Society Condemns AICHR for Refusing to Meet, Calls for Draft Rules of Procedure to be Made Public and Hold Wider Consultation
Today at Jakarta, the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission for Human Rights (AICHR) rejected the request of civil society organisations from the Solidarity for Asian Peoples Advocacy Taskforce on ASEAN Human Rights (SAPA TFAHR) to meet with them. The purpose of the requested meeting was to present the civil society proposal for the AICHR Rules of Procedures (RoP) as AICHR meets to draft the RoP […]
• • •NLD Reject Burma Elections – UN Must Restart Dialogue Efforts
As the National League for Democracy (NLD) announced that elections laws are so unjust that it will not register as a party to be able to take part, Burma Campaign UK today called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to stop trying to persuade Burma’s generals to reform elections designed to maintain military rule. Instead the United Nations should renew efforts to force Burma’s generals to enter into dialogue with the NLD and genuine ethnic representatives […]
• • •Indonesian Foreign Minister’s Trip Should Promote Rights
Indonesia’s foreign minister should stress to Burma’s military government that drastic reforms are needed if the elections this year are to be credible, Human Rights Watch said in a letter today to Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, who is visiting Burma on March 30 […]
• • •Regional Groups Call for Asian Solidarity
Around 50 representatives belonging to the Solidarity for Asian Peoples’ Advocacies (SAPA) call on greater interaction and solidarity among regional groups to address common concerns. In a public forum on “The Asian Challenge: Forging Solidarity, Building Alternatives” on March 26 in the Everest Hotel, SAPA members discussed the multiple crises experienced in Asia – in the economy; in the environment and the climate; and in peace, democracy, human rights and self-determination […]
• • •၆၅ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးေန႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
၆၅ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ေတာက္လွန္ေရး ေန႔တြင္ စည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးစုမ်ား မဟာမိတ္အဖဲြ႔မွ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္တခု ထုတ္ျပန္လုိက္ပါသည္။ထုိထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ တြင္ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတဝွမ္းလုံးရွိ တုိင္းရင္းသားတို႔၏ စည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ေသာ စြမ္းပကားျဖင့္ ဖက္ဆစ္ဂ်ပန္တို႔အားေျခမႈန္း ေတာ္လွန္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ၾကသကဲ့သို႔ ႏိုင္ငံ၏လြတ္လပ္ေရးကိုရယူ ႏိုင္ခဲ့ၾကသည္ျဖစ္ရာ တမိ်ဳးသားလုံးစည္းလုံးညီညြတ္မႈသည္ အေရးၾကီးလွေၾကာင္း စသည္တို႔အပါအဝင္ နအဖအစိုးရအား ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ ခြန္ထြန္းဦး၊ မင္းကုိႏိုင္ အပါအဝင္ မတားရားသျဖင့္ေထာင္ခ်ခံေနရေသာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား အာလုံးျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ အစရွိသည့္ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္မ်ားကုိ လည္းထည္႔သြင္းထုတ္ျပန္ထားပါသည္။ Download the statement in Burmese.
• • •G8 Summit should tackle Burma rights crisis
Members of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations should put Burma on the agenda of the G8 Summit in Toronto in June, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to foreign ministers of G8 countries today. The foreign ministers of G8 countries are meeting March 29 and 30, 2010, in Gatineau, Quebec to discuss major issues affecting international security and finalize the summit’s agenda.[…]
• • •WLB Welcomes and Urges Support of the UNSR’s Recommendations on Burma
The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) welcomes the groundbreaking report and recommendations to the UN Human Rights Commission of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Burma, Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana. This report marks the first time an acting UN official has called for an UN Commission of Inquiry into Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes in Burma, both crimes which fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.[…]
• • •A Five-Month Old Baby Boy and His Five-Year Old Sister Killed by the Burmese Army
A five-month old baby boy Saw Htee Plar Htoo and his five-year old sister Naw Paw Bo were killed when the Burmese Army troops attacked their village Khaw Hta in Kler Lwe Htoo (Nyaunglinbin) District, Karen State on 22nd March. Their mother, Naw Pa Lah, was seriously wounded on the stomach […]
• • •Burmese Army Shoots Five-Month Old Baby in Attack on Karen Village
On 22nd March a five month old baby boy, a five year old girl, and a 37 year old woman were killed in an attack by the Burmese Army on Khaw Hta village, Kler Lwe Htoo District (Nyaung Lin Bin District in Burmese), Karen State.
According to a local villager, Burmese Army Battalion 369 entered the village at 4.30pm and opened fire without warning, shooting at any villager in sight and firing into villager’s homes, […]
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