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Myanmar- Overturn Wrongful Conviction of Brang Shawng
(Yangon, February 18, 2015)— The Myanmar authorities should overturn the conviction of Shayam Brang Shawng on charges relating to a letter he sent to the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC), two human rights organizations said today. The Ja Seng Ing Truth Finding Committee and Fortify Rights said the conviction was unjust and retaliatory and called on the Myanmar authorities to ensure that those responsible for the death of Brang Shawng’s daughter are held accountable […]
• • •Yearning to be Heard: Mon Farmers’ Continued Struggle for Acknowledgement and Protection of their Rights
Land conflict is the most pressing issue facing Burma today, second only to armed conflict. Though Burma’s emerging democratic government has introduced land policy reform and has established land investigation commissions aimed to resolve land conflicts, civilian land acquisition by the Burmese military continues to take place, particularly in Burma’ minority ethnic areas […]
• • •Transnational Institute: Towards a Healthier Legal Environment
Since the current drug laws were enacted several important changes have taken place inside and outside of Myanmar. The decision of the Myanmar Government to review the law is not only timely but also offers a prospect to improve the drugs legislation and to ensure that the laws address drug-related problems in the country Introduction […]
• • •The Significance of Signing the Deed of Commitment to Peace and National Reconciliation
On Union Day, February 12, 2015, the President, senior Tatmadaw officers, both speakers of the Hluttaws, political parties, and four Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs)—the Restoration Council of Shan State, Karen National Union, Democratic Karen Benevolent Army, and KNU/KNLA Peace Council—signed the Deed of Commitment to Peace and National Reconciliation (the “Deed”) at Naypyidaw. By signing the Deed, the President is able to demonstrate a positive image to the country and the international community that Burma’s peace process is moving forward in advance of the election later this year […]
• • •Myanmar: Foreign Mining Companies Colluding in Serious Abuses and Illegality
Canadian and Chinese mining interests have profited from, and in some cases colluded with the Myanmar authorities in serious human rights abuses and illegal activity around the Monywa copper mine complex, which includes the notorious Letpadaung mine, Amnesty International said in a report released today […]
• • •Myanmar: Prisoner Committee Should Not be Smokescreen
A Myanmar government committee reconstituted to deal with “prisoners of conscience affairs” should resolve remaining prisoner-of-conscience cases, be inclusive, independent, transparent and designed to tackle growing numbers of politically motivated arrests, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today in a joint open letter to the committee’s new chair […]
• • •ပညာေရးဥပေဒျပင္ဆင္ေရး ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ရပ္ဆိုင္းျခင္းအေပၚ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
ပညာေရးဥပေဒျပင္ဆင္ေရး ေက်ာင္းသား၊ အစိုးရႏွင့္၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္ႏွင့္ NNER ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားၾကား ကနဦး ေတြ႕ဆံုညွိႏႈိင္းမႈကို ရန္ကုန္တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း၊ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ားတြင္ အစိုးရမွ တန္းတူဆက္ဆံမႈ မရွိျခင္း၊ ေက်ာင္းသားႏွင့္ NNER ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားအေပၚ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳမႈမရွိျခင္း၊ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲအတြင္း သပိတ္လွန္ရန္ ဖိအားေပးျခင္း၊ စသည့္အေျခအေနမ်ားကို ၾကံဳေတြ႕ျပီးေနာက္ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလ၊ (၃) ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ဆက္လက္ေဆြးေႏြးမည့္ အစီအစဥ္ကို အစိုးရမွ ရပ္ဆိုင္း၍ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ ေဖာ္ေဖာ္ဝါရီလ၊ (၁၂) ရက္ေန႕ ေနာက္ပိုင္းသို႕ ေရႊ႕ဆိုင္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။ […]
• • •Rose-tinted Glasses Delivered to British Foreign Office- Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK was today joined by Baroness Kinnock, Baroness Nye, and supporters to deliver more than 2,000 rose-tinted glasses, photo petitions and campaign postcards to the British Foreign Office as part of our campaign to persuade the British government to stop looking at Burma through rose-tinted glasses, and return to putting human rights as their top priority in Burma […]
• • •Myanmar: Prosecute Perpetrators, Not Human Rights Defenders Authorities Threaten Media & Critics for Implicating Military in Kachin Killings
(Yangon, February 3, 2015)— Myanmar authorities should stop prosecuting and threatening journalists and human rights defenders for reporting and speaking out about human rights abuses, Fortify Rights said today […]
• • •Indigenous local Nabule Residents Call Responsibility and Accountability for the Damages Caused by the Dawei Special Economic Zone Project
Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is located in southern Myanmar (Burma) and it would be one of the largest petrochemical estates in South-East Asia. Dawei SEZ project was signed MOU between Governments of Myanmar and Thailand in 2008 and a 60 year concession was granted to ITD (Italian-Thai Development Pcl) in 2010. Max-Myanmar Company Limited Ltd withdrew its investment in July 2012. In November, 2013 concession right of the project were transferred to Speical Purpose Vehicle (SPV) which is joined owned (50:50) by the governments of Myanmar-Thailandbut the project has been delayed […]
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