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Statement of Detained Students
First of all, we would like to express our deep gratitude to the people and civil society groups for supporting our peaceful protests […]
• • •Position Statement on Signing of Approval on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Draft Reached between NCCT and UPWC
1. The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) recognizes the work and effort made by the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) for more than a year.
• • •Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Unlikely in April
On 31 March, the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) and the Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) finalized the draft of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), which comprises seven chapters and thirty-three sections. China, the UN, and other armed resistance organizations such as the Restoration Council of Shan State, All Burma Students Democratic Front, and Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang observed the latest round of the talks in Rangoon.
• • •Rohingya Denied Right to Vote – New briefing on ‘White Card’ Withdrawal
Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK today publishes a new briefing paper the escalation of repression of the Rohingya by President Thein Sein by withdrawing their right to vote […]
• • •Situation Report by PSLF/TNLA – Offensives and Human Rights Abuse by Burma Army Continue
face to face battle took place between troops from TNLA Battalion-223 and Myanmar Tatmadaw Division-11 today, March 29, from 1530 to 1600 hours, at a place between Mon-si and Namt-maw villages in Tamo-nyeh Sub-Township, Kut-kai Township, in the TNLA Tactical Command-5 area. There was no casualty on the TNLA side. Casualty on Tatmadaw side is still not known […]
• • •UNFC Statement on Current Talks and Raging of Ferocious Battles on the Ground
We all know that members of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), together with fraternal ethnic armed resistance organizations, have been endeavoring by various means, with the specific intent of ending over 60-year-long civil war in Burma/Myanmar and resolving the political problems, through round-table talks and consultations with successive governments, and now the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordinating Team (NCCT) and the Union Peace-making Work Committee (UPWC) are holding talks for realizing the signing of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement […]
• • •Burma: Human Rights Council urges Burma to address human rights violations but overlooks suppression of student protests
The 28th session of the UN Human Rights Council today passed, by consensus, resolution 28/21 entitled ‘Situation of Human Rights Myanmar’ and extended by one year the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar […]
• • •Burma: UPR Commitments Remain Largely Unaddressed
Paris, Bangkok, 23 March 2015: Burma has failed to fully implement commitments it made at its last Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2011, FIDH and its member organization ALTSEAN-Burma said in their joint report submitted to the Working Group on the UPRyesterday. Burma will be reviewed at the 23rd Session of the Working Group on 9 November 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland […]
• • •Myanmar: Abolish Mandatory Guest Registration, End Household Inspections
(YANGON—March 19, 2015) The Myanmar government should immediately end warrantless searches of private homes and abolish the requirement that all residents register overnight houseguests with government officials, Fortify Rights said in a new report released today […]
• • •Rohingya Panel Discussion At Human Rights Council, Geneva
Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK has participated in a panel discussion on the Rohingya crisis in Burma with the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma at the United Nations Human Rights Council […]
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