Myanmar opposition must be free to fight elections

Amnesty International urges Myanmar to overturn a new law that bars all political prisoners, including detained Nobel Peace-prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, from belonging to a political party before upcoming national elections. “There are at least 2,200 political prisoners in Myanmar, most of whom are in prison simply because they tried to exercise their […]

Migrants in Thailand Facing Detention and Imminent Deportation

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) expresses its deep concern regarding recent reports of detention and forced deportation of a large number of migrant workers, especially along the Thai-Burma border. According to information received, there has been a sudden increase in the arrest, detention and deportation of Burmese migrant workers since March 5 in […]

Oppose the 2010 elections on the grounds that they will further entrench the military rule in Burma

(1) On the 8th of March, the Burmese military junta eventually announced the first of the electoral laws. To date the law for the election commission and the law for the registration of political parties have already been announced. Both of these laws are biased and result in the oppression of the people […]

နအဖစစ္အုပ္စု၏ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကက္ပြဲကို လုံးဝဆန္႔က်င္ေၾကာင္း ရခိုင္ျပည္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးပါတီ (ALP) မွသေဘားထားထုပ္ျပန္ခ်က္

ရခိုင္ျပည္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးပါတီ၏ သေဘာထားထုပ္ျပန္ခ်က္တြင္ ၂၀၀၈ အေျခခံဥပေဒအရ က်င္းပေပးမည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြသည္ ျပည္သူလူထုဆႏၵႏွင့္ လုံးဝဆန္႔က်င္ဖက္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီႏွင့္္ လုံးဝဆန္႔က်င္ဖက္ျဖစ္ေႀကာင္း စသည့္အခ်က္မ်ား အပါအဝင္ ယခုျပဳလုပ္မည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအား ရခုိင္ၿပည္သူလူထု တရပ္လုံးအေနႏွင့္ လူမ်ိဳးစံုတိုင္းရင္းသားၿပည္သူတရပ္လုံးႏွင့္ လက္တြဲကာ နည္းလမ္းေပါင္းစုံျဖင့္ အစြမ္းကုန္ ဆန္႔က်င္တိုက္ဖ်က္သြားၾကပါရန္လည္း တိုက္တြန္းႏႈိးေဆာ္ ထားပါသည္။

Burma: Election Laws May Shut Down Opposition Parties

Influential Governments Should Reject Sham Process

Newly issued laws in preparation for 2010 elections in Burma are designed to exclude the main opposition party and ensure a victory for the ruling military, Human Rights Watch said today.

The ruling State Peace and Development Council today released the Political Party Registration Law, which includes provisions barring prisoners from being members of political parties. The law effectively excludes more than 2,100 political activists currently imprisoned on politically motivated charges, including Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD). […]

Military Regime Bans Aung San Suu Kyi, Political Prisoners, Monks from Participating in the Country’s Political Process, Simultaneously Pushing towards Imminent War with Ethnic Ceasefire Groups

U.N. Security Council Action Required Immediately

The United States Campaign for Burma today strongly denounces the military regime in Burma that has ruled the Southeast Asian country for nearly five decades, for its failure to release all political prisoners, including 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and banning them from participating in the upcoming election. The regime recently released five laws to govern the process of the election. The Political Parties Registration Law, dated Mar 8, 2010, clearly bans Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and all political prisoners from not only participating in the election, but also from forming and joining a political party. […]

Karen Communities Worldwide Call for Action to Stop Attacks on Civilians

Karen communities in 10 countries are joining forces for a global day of action on Tuesday 9th March, calling on the international community to take action to stop new attacks by the Burmese Army against Karen civilians. Since mid January more than 2,000 civilians have been forced to flee new attacks. […]

CSW & Burma Info return from Thailand-Burma border with fresh evidence of crimes against humanity

A Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) and BurmaInfo (Japan) team returned from a fact-finding visit to the Thai-Burmese border last week with fresh evidence of gross human rights violations in eastern Burma that amount to “crimes against humanity”.The delegation, which included CSW’s East Asia Team Leader, Benedict Rogers, and the Director of BurmaInfo, Yuki Akimoto, interviewed new refugees in camps along the Thai-Burma border, and heard first-hand accounts of forced labour, torture and murder. […]

ASEAN to Accelerate Aid Delivery to Cylone-Nargis Affected Population

ASEAN will accelerate aid delivery to Myanmar’s Cyclone-Nargis affected population and hand over the coordination structure for post-Nargis recovery efforts to the Government of Myanmar as it prepares to complete its humanitarian operations in the country in July 2010. The decision was made at the 7th Meeting of the ASEAN Humanitarian Task Force (AHTF) held in Ha Noi today. […]

Statement on International Women’s Day

Every year on the 8th of March, women all over the world commemorate the International Women’s Day for the advancement of the lives of women and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and oppression. However, in Burma we are not allowed to observe this day.

As a signatory country of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women, the Burmese junta has an obligation to promote, protect and fulfill the rights of women. However, they are in fact committing all kinds of violence against women and crimes against humanity throughout , in particular in the war zones. […]