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MPs Urge Ban Ki-Moon to Negotiate Humanitarian Access to Rakhine State, Burma
Over 50 MPs in the British Parliament have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) (a kind of Parliamentary petition) calling on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to personally lead negotiations for humanitarian access to Rakhine State, Burma. The MPs also call on the British Government to put pressure on the Burmese government to address the root causes of why the Rohingya are fleeing the country […]
• • •(၅၃) နွစ္ေျမာက္ ၇ ရက္ ဇူလိုင္အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ားကြန္ဂရက္၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
၇ရက္ ဇူလိုင္ေန႔ဆိုသည္မွာ ဗိုလ္ေနဝင္းစစ္အုပ္စုမွ နိုင္ငံေရးဇာတ္ခံုေပၚတက္လာၿပီးတာနဲ႔ ‘ဓါးဓါးျခင္းလွံလွံျခင္း’ ရင္ဆိုင္ေျဖရွင္းမည္ဟုႀကံဳးဝါးကာ ေက်ာင္းသားထုနွင္႔ျပည္သူမ်ားကိုပစ္ခတ္သတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ႔ၿပီး သမိုင္းဝင္(တကသ)အေဆာက္ အဦးကို ဒိုက္နမိုက္ျဖင္႔ၿဖိဳခြဲကာ စစ္အာဏာရွင္စနစ္ရဲ႕ ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာမႈမ်ားကိုေဖာ္ျပသည္႔လိုက္သည့္ သမိုင္းဝင္ေန႔ျဖစ္ သလိုေက်ာင္းသားထုရဲ႕ စစ္အာဏာရွင္တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးအတြက္ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ခြပ္ေဒါင္းအလံကို အျမင္႔မားဆံုးလႊင္႔ထူၿပီးျပည္သူ လူထု ကိုေသြးနဲ ႔မိီးေမာင္း ထိုးျပခဲ႔သည္႔ ေန႔လည္းျဖစ္ပါသည္ […]
• • •Statement of PSLF/TNLA to Avoid Head on Fighting
The PSLF/TNLA welcomes the positive discussions held in Chiang Mai between the UPWC, the government representatives, and the SD-Senior Delegation for Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, the group organized and given a mandate by the EAROs’ Lawkhilar Summit […]
• • •Myanmar: All Parties Must Immediately Halt Child Recruitment and Use
London, 2 July 2015 – The Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) should immediately end the recruitment and use of children under the age of 18 years and release all those recruited under-18 within their ranks, Child Soldiers International said in new research released today […]
• • •PEACE Update: Myanmar Peace Process ( 1 June – 3 July 2015)
2-9 June 2015: Ethnic Leaders’ Summit (Law Khee Lar, Karen State). Leaders of Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) have declined to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) in its present form and outlined the following changes to the March 2015 draft NCA. See the attached report, “Summit of the Top Leaders of Ethnic Armed Organizations, Resolutions and Minutes” for details […]
• • •Civilians Injured by Burma Army Shelling and Beating in Panglong, Southern Shan State
Indiscriminate shelling by Burmese government troops in a civilian area caused serious injury to a woman on her way to her farm, north of Panglong, on June 19, 2015 […]
• • •Migrants: Justice and Koh Tao Murder Case
Prior to British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller’s heinous murders last September, migrant worker’s presence and everyday lives on Koh Tao island were not publicly discussed. This situation abruptly changed once migrants were identified by case investigators as key suspects behind the killings […]
• • •Parliamentarians Call on Asean Ministers to Address Root Causes of Migrant Crisis at Kl Meeting
JAKARTA, 1 July 2015 – ASEAN home ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow must take firm action to combat human trafficking, protect vulnerable asylum seekers, and address the root causes of the continuing migrant crisis, including the persecution of Rohingya in Myanmar, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) said today […]
• • •Southeast Asia: Open Letter on the Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Southeast Asia
One month after 17 countries gathered in Bangkok to discuss the refugee and migrant crisis in South East Asia, we are writing to you to express our deep concern at the continuing lack of concrete and regionally-coordinated measures to tackle the current crisis and its long-standing root causes […]
• • •‘With Only Our Voices, What Can We Do?’: Land Confiscation and Local Response in Southeast Myanmar
ORCHID HOTEL, YANGON – Three years after the 2012 preliminary ceasefire negotiations between the Myanmar government and the Karen National Union (KNU), reported instances of land confiscation continue to increase in southeast Myanmar […]
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