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UNFC Statement on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement and In-Country Peace Building

၁။ ျမန္မာျပည္၏ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း(၇၀)နီးပါး ျဖစ္ပြားေနေသာျပည္တြင္းစစ္သည္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအေျခခံ (သုိ႔တည္းမဟုတ္) ဖြဲ႔စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ ျပႆနာအေၾကာင္းရင္းခံေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထုိအေျခခံျပႆနာကုိ ႏုိင္ငံေရးနည္းျဖင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ေျဖရွင္းရန္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးေပါင္းစုံမွ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္ႀကဳိးပမ္းခဲ့ၾကသည္။ သုိ႔ရာတြင္ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္အုပ္စုိးသူမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ သေဘာထား ေစတနာမမွန္ကန္၍ ယေန႔ထိတုိင္ ကမၻာ့အရွည္ၾကာဆုံး ေသာျပည္တြင္းစစ္မ်ား ဆက္လက္ျဖစ္ေပၚေနရသည္ […]

October 3, 2015  •  By United Nationalities Federal Council  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားတပ္ဦး၏ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခတ္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ (NCA) လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးရန္ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်မွတ္ထားျခင္းအေပၚ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

၁။ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ (NCA) သည္ ၂၀၁၃ ခုႏွစ္မွ စတင္၍ တိုင္းရင္း သားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြ႔ဲအစည္းမ်ား ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရတို႔အၾကား (၂) ႏွစ္နီးပါ ညိႇႏိႈင္းေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္၏ရလဒ္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားတပ္ဦးသည္လည္း ဤသေဘာတူစာ ခ်ဳပ္မူၾကမ္းေရးဆြဲေရးတြင္ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးအပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးဆိုင္ရာညိႇႏိႈင္းေရးအဖ႔ြဲ (NCCT) ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္း သားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြ႕ဲ အစည္းမ်ား၏ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးအပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးဆိုင္ရာ အဆင့္ျမင့္ ညိႇႏိႈင္းေရးကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြ႔ဲ (SD) တို႔၌ ထဲထဲ၀င္၀င္ ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့သည္ […]

October 2, 2015  •  By Chin National Front  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement on Current Situation and Notification Allowing Political Parties to Resume Election Campaign

1.On 16 September 2015, the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) issued a notification to political parties to suspend their election campaign in some areas under its control because there were armed conflicts going on at the time. Concerning this, the explanation about the current situation is as follows […]

October 1, 2015  •  By Restoration Council of Shan State  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

AAPP and FPPS Call for the release of all Political Prisoners before the Signing of the National Ceasefire Agreement and the 2015 General Election

Assistant Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) and Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) jointly call for the release of all political prisoners prior to the signing of the National Ceasefire Agreement and the 2015 General Election, if national peace and reconciliation is to take effect […]

September 29, 2015  •  By Assistance Association for Political Prisoners and Former Political Prisoners Society  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar: End International Crimes, Hold Perpetrators Accountable

(GENEVA)—The government of Myanmar should commit to concrete actions to end and remedy ongoing abuses during its upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Fortify Rights said today. Fortify Rights today published its formal submission to the United Nations on Myanmar’s human rights record, documenting four years of abuses. The […]

September 29, 2015  •  By Fortify Rights  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

EU deploys Election Observation Mission to Myanmar

In response to an invitation by the Union Election Commission (UEC), the European Union has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Myanmar to observe the general elections scheduled for 8 November 2015. This is the first time that the European Union is observing elections in Myanmar. The Mission underscores the EU’s support for Myanmar’s democratic transition and its commitment to supporting credible, transparent and inclusive elections in the country […]

September 29, 2015  •  By European Union  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Dispatches: Militias and Electoral Intimidation in Burma

With a little more than a month to go before Burma’s national elections, military aligned militia units are casting a dark shadow over the polls. These proxies, known as Pyithu Sit (People’s Militias) and Neh San Tat (Border Guard Forces) are intimidating voters in Burma’s ethnic-minority borderlands and are stopping candidates from campaigning. This exacerbates the problems in some regions, where ongoing fighting between government forces and ethnic armed groups will prevent voting from taking place […]

September 29, 2015  •  By Human Rights Watch  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

UEC U-Turn on Select Few Candidates Fails to Address Election Credibility Gap in Myanmar

JAKARTA, 28 September 2015 – Parliamentarians from across Southeast Asia today welcomed the decision of Myanmar’s Union Election Commission (UEC) to reinstate the candidacies of 11 previously disqualified Muslim politicians, but said the reversal was far from enough to recover international confidence in the upcoming general election […]

September 28, 2015  •  By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ႏွင့္ တႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈ ရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ လက္မွတ္မေရးထိုးမွီ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားလႊတ္ေပးရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း

မိမိတို႔ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအသင္းႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ားအဖြဲ႔တို႔သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားအေရးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ျ ခင္း၊ အခြင့္ အေရးမ်ားမွန္ကန္စြာရရွိေရးႏွင့္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတို႔အတြက္ အစဥ္တစိုက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္လွ်က္ရွိပါသည္ […]

September 28, 2015  •  By Assistance Association for Political Prisoners and Former Political Prisoners Society  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤