Buma/Myanmar: Draft Anti-religious Conversion Law Released

On 27 May 2014 the state media in Burma (Myanmar) published the latest in a series of anti-democratic laws for the national legislature to consider: the Law Relating to Religious Conversion (Draft) […]

Burma: Drop Draft Religion Law

(New York) – Burma’s parliament should scrap a proposed religion law that would encourage further repression and violence against Muslims and other religious minorities, Human Rights Watch said today. The draft law on religious conversions, published in the state-run media on May 27, 2014, would impose unlawful restrictions on Burmese citizens wishing to change their religion […]

AAPP-B and FPPS Joint Statement

The end of 2013 saw numerous government statements that convinced much of the outside world that all political activists had been freed from Burma’s jails. These statements not only served to undermine the plight of those political activists still in jail at the beginning of 2014, but also shifted focus away from the ongoing restrictions and harassments of political activists. In 2014, there have been 85 people charged under Article 18 of the Peaceful Assembly Law, Section 505 (b) of the Penal Code, Section 447, and a number of other laws. AAPP currently recognizes at least 59 political prisoners detained across Burma […]

Press Release: IFC Should Postpone Burma Investment

(Washington, D.C) – US Campaign for Burma (USCB) calls on the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to ensure that IFC investments in Burma are oriented toward poverty alleviation, and to prioritize safeguards and transparency. Three out of the IFC’s five projects in Burma involve the construction of upscale hotels, and the most recently proposed IFC project will excuse the Burmese client, Yoma Bank, from implementing basic due diligence and safeguards […]

ကရင္လူငယ္အစည္းအရုံး၏ (၂၅)ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေငြရတုပြဲေတာ္ ဂုဏ္ျပဳအထိမ္းအမွတ္ ကရင္လူငယ္မ်ား ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခ်က္

ကရင္လူငယ္အစည္းအရုံး၏ (၂၅) ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေငြရတုပြဲေတာ္ဂုဏ္ျပဳအထိမ္းအမွတ္ အခမ္းအနားကို ေမလ (၂၀)ရက္ ေန႔မွ (၂၃)ရက္ ေန႔အထိ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ဖားအံ ခရုိင္၊ ေလာ္ခီးလာ တြင္ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာက်င္းပ ျပဳလုပ္ ၍ ဧည့္ပရိတ္သတ္ (၅၆၉) ဦး တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ကရင္လူငယ္အစည္းအရုံး၏ (၂၅) ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေငြရတုပြဲေတာ္ ဂုဏ္ျပဳအထိမ္းအမွတ္ ႏွင့္ အတူ ကရင္လူငယ္ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတစ္ရပ္ကို ေမလ (၂၀) ရက္ေန႔မွ (၂၃) ရက္ေန႔ အထိ ၃ ရက္တာ က်င္းပခဲ့ပါသည္ […]

Rising Costs in Myanmar Put Strain on UNICEF’s Resources in Yangon

YANGON-The end of foreign sanctions and the opening up of Myanmar has benefitted millions of children paving the way for greater progress, however they have also led to higher operational costs for UN agencies and other aid organizations […]

Adequate Security and Assistance Needed Before Refugees Return

Members of the European Burma Network are deeply concerned that refugees from Burma living in camps in Thailand are being pressured to return to Burma prematurely because of cuts in aid […]

President Obama Renews Burma Investment Sanctions

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, President Obama continued the national emergency with respect to Burma. This follows the call for renewal from U.S. Campaign for Burma (USCB) and 28 other human rights organizations on May 6 (see letter here) […]

Letter to Tony Blair

Dear Mr. Blair,

I am writing again to ask for your response regarding the letters I wrote to you last year on 15 May, 3 September, 7 October, 4 November, 2 December, 20 December, 28 January 2014, 25 February 2014, 21 March 2014 and 25 April 2014. Enclosed are my previous letters to you […]

Statement of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD)

1) On May 5, 2014 at around 8:00 PM, Sai Ai Keng @ Ai Kyein, chairman of village-level SNLD from Namlinmau village, Pengtao Tract, Keng Tung Township, was beaten, abducted and arrested by government soldiers of the 245th Infantry Battalion […]