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Statement of 3rd Myanmar Opium Farmer Forum

On 11 and 12 September 2015 opium farmers and representatives of opium farming communities from Kayah State, Shan State, Kachin State and Chin State, came together in Upper Myanmar to discuss the drug policies affecting their lives. Following from the discussions the farmers issued a statement with recommendations to policy makers nationally and internationally […]

September 25, 2015  •  By The Transnational Institute  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Carter Center Issues Statement on Candidate Scrutiny Process and Campaign Environment in Myanmar

ATLANTA — The Carter Center election observation mission has deployed field teams to observe the electoral campaign, which officially started on Sept. 8. The first week of campaigning, as observed by the Center in three states, was peaceful, and parties report being able to conduct their campaign activities without significant difficulty. The Center remains concerned that strict enforcement of campaign regulations, and recently announced limitations on political speech, could have a negative impact on pre-election political space […]

September 25, 2015  •  By The Carter Center  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Opening the Box: Women’s Experiences of War, Peace, and Impunity in Myanmar

On September 23, 2015, Asia Justice And Rights (AJAR) is launching its report “Opening the Box: Women’s Experiences of War, Peace, and Impunity in Myanmar”, in collaboration with Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), Karen Women Empowerment Group (KWEG), and Women’s Organizations Network of Myanmar (WON). The report contains the stories of 29 women survivors from Myanmar – former political […]

September 23, 2015  •  By Asia Justice And Rights, Kachin Women's Association Thailand, Karen Women Empowerment Group and Women Organizations Network of Myanmar  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement on the International Day of Peace

Peace is a prerequisite for sustainable development. Without justice, peace is impossible. For Myanmar towards a democratically developed country, we need peace to come first. Peace is not just ending a war but a state where justice flows as river […]

September 21, 2015  •  By Gender and Development Institute-Myanmar  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ႏိုင္ငံတကာျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေန႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည့္ တၿပိဳင္နက္တည္းတြင္ပင္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး ေတြ႔ဆံုစကားေျပာေနသည့္ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ (KIA)၊ တအာင္း (ပေလာင္) အမ်ဳိးသားလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ (TNLA)၊ ျမန္မာအမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီမဟာမိတ္တပ္မေတာ္ (MNDAA)၊ ရွမ္းျပည္တပ္မေတာ္ေတာင္ပိုင္း (RCSS/SSA) စသည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ ေရး အဖြဲ႔မ်ားအား အစိုးရမွ တိုက္ေလယာဥ္မ်ား သံုးကာ အျပင္းအထန္ ဆက္လက္ထိုးစစ္ဆင္မႈမ်ားရွိခဲ့ၿပီး လက္ရွိတြင္လည္း ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ဆက္လက္ျဖစ္ပြားလွ်က္ရွိသည္ […]

September 21, 2015  •  By Burmese Women's Union  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေန႔ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

စက္တင္ဘာလ(၂၁)ရက္ေန႔သည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအပါအဝင္ကမၻာတဝွမ္းမွ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလိုလားသူမ်ားက အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေန႔အျဖစ္သတ္မွတ္ကာ ႏွစ္စဥ္က်င္းပၾကပါသည္။ ဤေန႔မွစ၍ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရွိ တုိင္းရင္းသားျပည္သူမ်ားအားလုံး ကိုယ္စိတ္ႏွစ္ပါး က်န္းမာခ်မ္းသာျပီး စစ္မွန္သည့္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး အျမန္ဆုံးရရွိႏုိင္ပါေစေၾကာင္း ဦးစြာ ဆုေတာင္းေမတၱာ ပုိ႔သလုိက္ပါသည္ […]

September 21, 2015  •  By Students and Youth Congress of Burma  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

World Peace Day: Statement by Karen National Union

1. We, the Karen National Union (KNU), warinly welcoine the World Peace Day, which is today. September 21, 2015, in accordance with the 2001 UN General Assembly Resolution (55/282), designating September 21 as the World Peace Day […]

September 21, 2015  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Summit of Parliamentarians Concludes with Action Letters and Resolution

NEW YORK, 19 September 2015 – In the face of rising religious persecution of people on the grounds of faith or belief, parliamentarians from almost 50 countries concluded an unprecedented summit discussing ways to advance freedom of religion or belief for all […]

September 19, 2015  •  By International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

IMF Executive Board Completes 2015 Article IV Consultation with Myanmar

On August 28, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2015 Article IV consultation1 with Myanmar […]

September 18, 2015  •  By International Monetary Fund  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤