Malaysian Government Undermines ASEAN Processes

Malaysian civil society organisations are appalled that, ahead of the ASEAN Summit on 11th May 2014, the Malaysian government has objected to the Malaysian civil society delegate due to attend the Interface Meeting between Civil Society and the ASEAN Heads of State. We are further dismayed by news that the Cambodian and Singaporean governments […]

Open Letter to The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Royal Government of Cambodia

The Cambodian Civil Society Working Group on ASEAN (CCWA) was formally initiated on 29 April 2013, to form a working network of Cambodian civil society organizations that play a critical role in ASEAN platforms and other regional civil society work. CCWA consists of nine NGOs including the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association […]

Statement of Women’s Groups and CSOs on Preparation of Draft Interfaith Marriage Law

We believe that current faith–based political activities, including the arguments against interfaith marriage currently taking place in the country, are not in accordance with the objectives of the peaceful coexistence of all faiths and the prevention of extreme violence and conflict, but are instead events and ideas designed to distract the public before the 2015 election […]

BURMA: Letter to President Obama on Continuing National Emergency

Dear President Obama,

Our organizations urge you to continue the national emergency with respect to Burma. Since May 20, 2013, the Burmese government has failed to substantively address any of the concerns that informed the renewal of Executive Order 13619 […]

President Obama Must Renew Burma Investment Sanctions

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the U.S. Campaign for Burma (USCB), along with 28 other human rights organizations, called on President Obama to continue the national emergency with respect to Burma. The national emergency provides the authority for the ban of U.S. investment in the Burmese military and the authority for the Reporting Requirements for Responsible Investment in Burma. This authority is set to expire this month. Last week, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom also pressed for the renewal of the national emergency […]

United Nations Expert Says There Are “Elements of Genocide” Against Myanmar’s Rohingya

The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights, Tomás Ojéa Quintana has said “There are elements of genocide in Rakhine with respect to Rohingya.”[…]

ဝ ျပည္ေသြးစည္းညီညႊတ္ေရးပါတီ ႏွင့္ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရံုး ပူးတြဲေၾကညာခ်က္

ဝ ျပည္ေသြးစည္းညီညႊတ္ေရးပါတီႏွင့္ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား အစည္းအရံုးတို႕သည္ ဝ ျပည္နယ္ ပန္ဆန္းျမိဳ႕၊ ပါတီဗဟို စည္းေဝးခန္းမတြင္ ျမန္မာျပည္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးတည္ေဆာက္မႈဆိုင္ရာ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သတ္၍ မိမိတို႕၏ အျမင္ သေဘာထားမ်ားအား ပြင္းလင္းလြတ္လပ္စြာ ေဆြးေႏြးတိုင္ပင္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္ […]

British Government Backs Burma Political Prisoner Review Mechanism

Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire MP has backed ‘a comprehensive and transparent mechanism’ to review cases of political prisoners in Burma. He voiced his support in a letter responding to letters from the public about political prisoners in Burma […]

Thein Sein Must Release Nay Myo Zin and Win Cho

Burma Campaign UK today urged President Thein Sein to immediately release Nay Myo Zin, Win Cho and all remaining political prisoners, and to fully repeal Article 18 of the Peaceful Procession and Peaceful Assembly Law […]

Win Tin’s Fight for Press Freedom and Democracy Goes On

Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn of the death of the dissident journalist Win Tinin Rangoon on 21 April. Burma has lost one of its staunchest defenders of democracy and freedom of information […]