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Burma: Election Fundamentally Flawed
(Rangoon, November 4, 2015) – Burma’s parliamentary election slated for November 8, 2015, is fundamentally flawed, depriving Burmese of their right to freely elect their government, Human Rights Watch said today […]
• • •UK Must Support UN Inquiry Into Possible Rohingya Genocide
Burma Campaign UK is calling on the British government to back a UN Commission of Inquiry into the human rights situation in Rakhine State, Burma […]
• • •Political Parties Neglect Human Rights Priorities
(Rangoon) Political parties contesting the 8 November election have failed to prioritize or commit to core human rights issues, a new report released by FIDH today shows. The report, titled “Half Empty: Burma’s political parties and their human rights commitments,” is the first-ever survey of the country’s political parties’ attitudes toward human rights issues […]
• • •New Rohingya Election Briefing Paper Presented In UK Parliament
A new briefing by Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, ‘No Hope For Rohingya From Burma Election’, was presented at a meeting in the British Parliament today […]
• • •လြဳိင္လင္ခရုိင္ ေက်းသီးျမိဳ႔နယ္ မုိင္းေနာင္ျမိဳ႔အနီး ၀ိန္းေကာင္ေက်းရြာရွိ တပ္မေတာ္တပ္ရင္းဠာနခ်ဳပ္သုိ႔ အက္စ္အက္စ္ေအ(၀မ္ဟုိင္း)အဖဲြ႔က ထပ္မံလာေရာက္တုိက္ခုိက္သည္ ဟုဆုိေသာ ျမ၀တီသတင္းဠာနႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
၁။ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္(ေတာင္ပုိင္း) လြဳိင္လင္ခရုိင္ ေက်းသီးျမိဳ႔နယ္ မိုင္းေနာင္ျမိဳ႔အနီး ၀ိန္းေကာင္ေက်းရြာရွိ တပ္မေတာ္တပ္ရင္းဠာနခ်ဳပ္သုိ႔ အက္စ္အက္စ္ေအ(၀မ္ဟုိင္း) အဖဲြ႔အင္အား ၂၀၀ ခန္႔က လက္နက္ၾကီး/လက္နက္ငယ္မ်ားျဖင့္ ေအာက္တုိဘာလ(၂၉) ရက္ ညေန(၅)နာရီတြင္တစ္ၾကိမ္၊ ည(၈) နာရီတြင္တစ္ၾကိမ္၊ ည(၁၂)နာရီတြင္တစ္ၾကိမ္၊ ေပါင္း(၃)ၾကိမ္ႏွင့္ ေအာက္တုိဘာလ(၃၀) ရက္ နံနက္(၄)နာရီ မိနစ္(၂၀)တြင္တစ္ၾကိ္မ္၊ နံနက္(၅) နာရီတြင္တြင္တစ္ၾကိမ္၊ ေပါင္း(၂)ၾကိမ္၊ စုစုေပါင္း(၅)ၾကိမ္ ေႏွင့္ယွက္ပစ္ခတ္ခဲ့သည္ ဟု ျမ၀တီသတ္ငးဠာနမွ ႏိုင္၀င္ဘာလ(၁)ရက္ေန႔စဲြျဖင့္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါသည္ […]
• • •Statement on Current Government’s Election and the Fighting in Ethnic Regions
We the people do not believe the election that is being held on the 8th November 2015 will be peaceful and without trouble. This election should be held without any threat of violence. We need to have a free and fair election […]
• • •We Used to Fear Bullets Now We Fear Bulldozers
In Yangon today, three Dawei-based civil society organizations launched a new report, based on more than two years of research and community-engagement, condemning the destructive coal mine at Ban Chaung […]
• • •New Election Briefing Paper – Constitution Ensures Continued Military Control
Burma Campaign UK today publishes a new briefing paper – Burma’s 2015 Elections and the 2008 Constitution, containing detailed analysis of what is likely to happen after election day, the process of the elections, and key election statistics […]
• • •United Nations: Establish Independent Investigation into Genocide in Myanmar
(BANGKOK, October 29, 2015)—There is strong evidence that the government of Myanmar is responsible for genocide against Rohingya Muslims, according to a legal analysis prepared for Fortify Rights by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School. In light of the findings, Fortify Rights said the United Nations must immediately establish a Commission of Inquiry into widespread and systematic human rights violations in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, including into whether the crime of genocide has occurred […]
• • •Human Rights Must be at the Heart of Historic Election Period in Myanmar – UN expert
NEW YORK/GENEVA (29 October 2015) – UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, called on all those in positions of authority in Myanmar to ensure that respect for the human rights of all must be at the core of the historic elections due to take place in 10 days’ time […]
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