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Stateless and Starving Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh
In recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion, and forced internment against Burmese refugees. In this emergency report Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) presents new data and documents dire conditions for these persecuted Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. PHR’s medical investigators warn that critical levels of acute malnutrition and […]
• • •Forced Labor, Movement and Trade Restrictions in Toungoo District
This field report documents the continuing and worsening demands for forced labour and restrictions on movement and trade imposed on villagers in Toungoo District by the SPDC army. These exploitative and restrictive practices undermine the livelihoods of both individuals living under SPDC control and villagers who have opted to live in hiding. Heavy demands for […]
• • •Abuse between borders: vulnerability for Burmese workers deported from Thailand
The Royal Thai Government appears poised to deport as many as 1.4 million workers that fail to complete “nationality verification” procedures by the end of February 2010. The majority of these workers are Burmese. Based upon extensive research conducted by KHRG and other organisations, it is likely that many of these workers came to Thailand […]
• • •56 groups issue open letter demanding justice for workers on strike in Burma
Fifty-six groups issued an open letter to Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General of ASEAN, calling on the regional body and its member countries to closely monitor the current situation at the Hlaing Tharyar industrial zone in Rangoon, and ensure that workers’ rights are recognized and respected. The letter also calls on ASEAN and ASEAN member […]
• •Open Letter of Concern for the Safety and Security Of Migrant Workers in Thailand
To: The Honorable Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned for the safety of over 2 million migrants from Burma, Cambodia and Laos working in Thailand who may face deportation after 28th February 2010. Over 80% of these migrants originate from Burma and face ethnic and political conflict as well as continuing economic deterioration in their homeland, which is controlled by a military government. […]
The Repression of Ethnic Minority Activists in Myanmar
The 58-page report, The Repression of Ethnic Minority Activists in Myanmar, draws on accounts from more than 700 activists from the seven largest ethnic minorities, including the Rakhine, Shan, Kachin, and Chin, covering a two-year period from August 2007.
The authorities have arrested, imprisoned, and in some cases tortured or even killed ethnic minority activists. Minority groups have also faced extensive surveillance, harassment and discrimination when trying to carry out their legitimate activities. […]
လက္ဖက္ဖ်က္ပိုး – စစ္အုပ္စုကိုင္တြယ္ေသာလက္ဖက္ျပႆနာေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနေသာ လက္ဖက္ေတာင္သူမ်ား
ဤ စာမ်က္ႏွာ ၂၂ မ်က္နွာပါ လက္ဖက္ဖ်က္ပိုး – စစ္အုပ္စုကိုင္တြယ္ေသာ လက္ဖက္ျပႆနာေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနေသာ လက္ဖက္ေတာင္သူမ်ား အစီရင္ခံစာကို တေအာင္း (ပေလာင္) လုပ္ငန္းအဖြဲ႕ မွထုတ္ျပန္ျပီး စစ္အစိုးရအာဏာပိုင္မ်ား တဘက္သက္ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ား၊ အေရးယူမႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ နစ္နာဆံုးရႈံးမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ဒုကၡျပႆနာအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး ၾကံဳေတြ႕ခဲ့ရေသာ လက္ဖက္ျဖင့္ […]
• • •Abuse, Poverty and Migration: Investigating Migrants’ Motivations to Leave Home in Burma
This report analyses the root causes of large-scale migration by Burmese workers that find employment in Thailand and other countries in the region. Identifying these root causes has important implications for the assistance and protection of these migrants […]
• • •Laid Waste: Human Rights along the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay Gas Pipeline
A 100-page report that details abuses along the entire length of an overland pipeline that traverses nearly half the length of Burma’s southern peninsula. Laid Waste also details abuses committed by Burma’s military regime as it has sought to construct, maintain and protect the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay gas pipeline.
• • •Holding Our Ground: Land Confiscation in Arakan & Mon States, and Pa-O Area of Southern Shan State
A report outlining land confiscation in three areas of the country – Arakan State, Mon State and the Pa-O Area of southern Shan State – where the brutal treatment of civilians at the hand of the military junta has been under documented.
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