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Joint Statement-Criminal Atrocities Increased Against Rohingya for Rejecting Green Card
European Rohingya organizations call on international community to pressure Myanmar government to stop excruciating and forcing the Rohingya community into accepting a new ID known as ‘green card’, valid for just two years, for national verification with Bengali identity. It is an ethnocide aims at making the Rohingya aliens and people of Bangladesh origin […]
• • •Discriminatory ‘Race and Religion’ bills in Myanmar Threaten to Fuel Tensions ahead of Elections
JAKARTA, 21 August 2015 – The Myanmar Parliament’s passage of two bills targeting religious minorities constitutes an attack on religious freedom and threatens to stoke inter-communal tensions and violence less than three months ahead of critical general elections, said ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) today […]
• • •IPPF, through the SPRINT Initiative, Provides Critical Medical and SRH Services to the Flood Affected Population of Sagaing, Myanmar
August 20, 2015: Kuala Lumpur/New Delhi: The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is the world’s leading provider of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. IPPF, through its humanitarian assistance programme – SPRINT – is providing critical medical and SRH services in the wake of the devastating floods in Sagaing, Myanmar. IPPF East & South East Asia and Oceania Region (IPPF ESEAOR) is responding to the humanitarian crisis through its collaborating partner, the Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association with funding provided by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), as part of the Australian Government humanitarian response to the floods […]
• • •U.S. Government Announces New Increase in Support to World Food Program (WFP) to Help Flood Victims
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Food for Peace today approved a new contribution of $3 million to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to assist people impacted by devastating floods and heavy rains in Myanmar. Over three thousand, three hundred metric tons of locally procured rice, pulses and salt, along with vegetable oil from the region, will assist people in affected states and regions throughout the country.
Through new and existing activities, the U.S. government will provide over $4.5 million in flood relief and recovery assistance to over 250,000 people impacted by the disaster […]
Burma: Land Rights Activists Are Newest Political Prisoners
(Bangkok) – Burmese authorities should immediately stop using abusive laws on association and expression to halt the activities of land rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The recent arbitrary arrest of a prominent land rights advocate in Karen State exemplifies the government’s persecution of vocal opponents of land grabs by officials and their business associates […]
• • •Indiscriminate Burma Army Shelling near SSPP/SSA Headquarters Endangers Thousands of Villagers
On August 7, 2015, while critical nationwide ceasefire talks were taking place in Yangon, the Burma Army fired mortar shells towards the headquarters of the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in Ke See township, endangering over 3,700 civilians in eight villages […]
• • •FBR Report: July Update – Kachin and northern Shan State
The Burma Army continues its attacks in Kachin State and northern Shan State, Burma. Clashes continue unabated, as the Burma Army attacks Mali Yang Village in northern Shan State, and abuses such as killings, torture, forced labor, and theft remain a tool of the Burma Army to oppress ethnic groups in Burma. Please see below the list of figures for specific accounts of Burma Army abuses […]
• • •Statement on Floods in Myanmar
(Yangon, 12 August 2015) Today I returned from Kale Township in Sagaing Region, where I visited communities affected by the floods and observed ongoing relief efforts. I was joined by government officials, several ambassadors, NGOs and UN colleagues […]
• • •Mon and Karen State Residents Fear Increased Flood Risk from Salween Dams
The Save the Salween Network is holding a press conference today in Moulmein, the Mon State capital, to raise concerns about downstream impacts of the planned Salween dams, including the increased risk of flooding […]
• • •(၂၇) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ရွစ္ေလးလုံးဒီမုိကေရစီ အေရးေတာ္ပုံေန႔ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္လ (၈)ရက္ေန႔သည္ ရဟန္းရွင္လူေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ားႏွင့္လူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံ ျပည္သူတရပ္လုံး၏စြမ္းပကားျဖင့္ တစ္ပါတီအာဏာရွင္စနစ္ကုိ စတင္တြန္းလွန္ျဖိဳဖ်က္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည့္ (၂၇)ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ သမုိင္း၀င္ေန႔ထူးေန႔ျမတ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ရွစ္ေလးလုံးဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးေတာ္ပုံကာလမွ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္တိုက္ပြဲအတြင္း အသက္၊ ေသြး၊ ေခြ်းတုိ႔ေပးဆပ္ကာ တုိက္ပဲြ၀င္ရင္း က်ဆုံးသြားေသာ အာဇာနည္ရဟန္းရွင္လူေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံျပည္သူတရပ္လုံးႏွင့္ မတရားဖမ္းဆီးခံေနရသည့္ အာဇာနည္သူရဲေကာင္းအေပါင္းတုိ႔ကုိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္ကြန္ဂရက္ (SYCB) မွဦးညြတ္ဂုဏ္ျပဳအပ္ပါသည္ […]
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