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Rohingya Flood Victims Abandoned by Burmese Government
Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK is receiving reports from Rakhine State indicating that the Burmese government has abandoned most Rohingya victims of the floods and is focusing instead on assisting only ethnic Rakhine […]
• • •Thein Sein, Shwe Mann, Should Reveal 1988 Role and Military History
On the 27th anniversary of the crushing of the pro-democracy uprising on 8/8/88, Burma Campaign UK is calling on President Thein Sein, Speaker Shwe Mann, and all election candidates or potential Presidential candidates with a military background to publish their military records in full and their role in the crushing of the pro-democracy uprising in 1988 […]
• • •End of Mission Statement Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
I conclude my third official visit to the country as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar as the country is coming to grips with the scale of destruction and loss of human life caused by the floods. I conveyed my deepest sympathies and profound sadness to all those I met during the mission and wish to renew those sentiments publicly now and particularly to the families of the victims and all those who have been affected by this disaster […]
• • •Opening Remarks: The 9th Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) Negotiations
ပထမဆံုးအေနနဲ႔ေျပာခ င္တာကေတာ့ အခုလက္ရ ိျပည္နယ္နဲ႔တုိင္းေဒသၾကီးအေတာ္မ် ားမ် ားမွ ာ ႀကံ်ဳေတြ႔ေန ရတဲ့ ေရေဘးဒုကၡေတြအတြက္ ကြ ်န္မတို႔အေနနဲ႔အင္မတန္မ စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္ရျပီး ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္း ေတြမွ ာလည္း အစုိးရအေနနဲ႔အေကာင္းဆံုးလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနတယ္လုိ႔ယံုၾကည္ပါတယ္။ ကြ ်န္မတို႔အေနနဲ႔ပံ့ပိုး ႏိုင္သည္မွ ာကိုလည္း တတ္အားသေရြ႕ပါ၀င္ပံ့ပိုးႏုိင္ဖို႔စိတ္ဆႏၵရွိပါတယ္ […]
• • •Political Instability and Community Resistance Hamper Smec’s Efforts to Conduct Salween Dam Eia/Sia in eastern Shan State
Blocked by local communities from conducting surveys in Kunhing and Mong Ton townships, Australia’s Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC) has been attempting during July 2015 to carry out its EIA/SIA for the Upper Salween (Mong Ton) dam in several eastern Shan State townships, but has been hampered by political instability and growing community resistance […]
• • •Declaration of the 2nd European Rohingya Conference
The second European Rohingya Conference was held between 1-2 August 2015 in Esbjerg, Denmark. It was participated by Rohingya leaders, representatives from Rohingya organisations and communities from all over Europe. The conference discussed issues relating to Rohingya people, their refugees and current deteriorating situation.
• • •လက္ရွိျဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္းေရေဘးအႏၱရာယ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ အရပ္ဖက္လထုအဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရွိ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တိုင္း (၁၁) ခုတြင္ လက္ရွိ ေရႀကီးေရလွ်ံမႈမ်ား ႀကံဳေတြ႔ေနၿပီး ျပည္သူေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ေရေဘးဒုကၡမ်ား ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရလ်က္ရွိသည္။ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ သတၱပတ္ႏွစ္ပတ္က စတင္ခဲ့ေသာ ေရေဘးဒဏ္ ေၾကာင့္ စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္း၊ ပဲခူးတိုင္း၊ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္း၊ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္၊ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္၊ ရခိုင္ ျပည္နယ္တို႔ရွိ ျပည္သူ လူထုသိန္းႏွင့္ခ်ီ၍ ဒုကၡေရာက္ခဲ့ရၿပီး အေရးေပၚအကူအညီမ်ား လိုေနလ်က္ရွိသည္။ ေရေဘးဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ ဒါဇင္ႏွင့္ ခ်ီေသာလူမ်ား ေသဆံုးေပ်ာက္ဆံုးခဲ့ၿပီး ေျမယာဧက ရွစ္သိန္းေက်ာ္ ထိခိုက္ပ်က္စီးေနေၾကာင္း သတင္းမ်ားရရွိသည္ […]
• • •Statement of Civil Society Organizations on the Current Severe Flooding in Myanmar
Eleven States and Regions of Myanmar are encountering inundation and deluges with millions of people facing flooding distress. The floods, that began two weeks ago, have affected hundreds of thousands of people in Sagaing, Bago and Ayeyarwaddy Divisions as well as in Kachin, Chin and Arakan States, and these areas are urgently in need of emergency relief and aid. Dozens of people have perished in the floods and more than eight hundred thousand acres of farmland are submerged, according to numerous reports […]
• • •ရခုိင္ျပည္၏ လက္ရွိသဘာ၀ေဘးအႏၱရာယ္က်ေရာက္ေနမႈအေျခအေနအေပၚ ရခုိင္ျပည္လုံးဆုိင္ရာေက်ာင္းသားႏွင့္လူငယ္မ်ားအစည္းအ႐ုံး (AASYC) မွ ထုုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇြန္လတြင္ မုတ္သုုံမုိးမ်ား စဥ္ဆက္မျပတ္ ရြာသြန္းခဲ့ၿပီး ရခုိင္ျပည္၏ေတာင္ပုိင္း ၿမဳိ႕နယ္မ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ေတာင္ကုတ္၊ သံတြဲ၊ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴ၊ အမ္း ၿမဳိ႕နယ္မ်ားတြင္ ေရးလႊမ္းမုိးမႈမ်ား ႀကီးမားစြာ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ရာ ေသဆုံး (၅) ဦး ႏွင့္ ေရေဘးဒုကၡသည္မ်ား စုစုေပါင္းအေရအတြက္(၁၃,၀၀၀) ဦး ရွိခဲ့ရာ ယေန႔ထိတုိင္ ပ်က္စီးဆုံးရႈံးမႈမ်ားအတြက္ ျပန္လည္ျပဳျပင္ ထူေထာင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနရဆဲ ျဖစ္ပါသည္ […]
• • •Five Myanmar Journalists Freed from Prison as Part of Mass Amnesty
Bangkok, July 31, 2015–Five journalists jailed on anti-state charges in Myanmar were released on Thursday in a presidential amnesty of nearly 7,000 prisoners, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the journalists’ release but calls on Myanmar authorities to release all other journalists imprisoned in the country […]
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