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Briefing Regarding Myanmar Peace Team’s Meetings with Mae Tao Clinic Team
This briefing paper provides details about the recent meetings with the Myanmar Government Peace Team led by Minister U Aung Min. The paper clarifies Mae Tao Clinic’s position on continuing to provide crucial health services on the Thai-Burma border and identifies three key areas that the government must prioritize in order to begin addressing Burma’s current underfunded and highly centralized health system […]
• • •The Six-Point Political Program of the Ethnic Nationalities Regarding the Peace Process
The following six points were agreed to at the Ethnic Nationalities Conference that was held from 14 to 16 September in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The conference was attended by 130 ethnic political leaders, representatives from civil society and armed ethnic groups. This “political roadmap” is their alternative to President Thein Sein’s eight-point peace plan […]
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Thailand’s Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Resolution of 13 September 2012 on the Persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Burma/Myanmar
The European Parliament, having regard to its previous resolutions on Burma/Myanmar, and in particular that of 20 April 2012[1], having regard to the progress report of 7 March 2012 by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar […]
• • •Karen Community Based Organizations’ Position on Refugees’ Return to Burma
This is a preliminary working paper prepared by the Karen Community Based Organizations (KCBOs) concerned with refugees’ repatriation and return to Burma […]
• • •‘Threats to Our Existence’: Persecution of Ethnic Chin Christians in Burma
This new report “‘Threats to Our Existence’: Persecution of Ethnic Chin Christians in Burma” by the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) exposes a decades-long pattern of religious freedom violations that persist today under the new government, and documents other serious human rights abuses such as forced labour, torture, and other cruel and inhuman treatment, forcing thousands of Chin to flee their homeland […]
• • •Navigating the Thaw: Burma-Canada Relations in 2012 and Beyond
This statement follows on an April 27, 2012 consultation hosted by the Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) with the support of University of Ottawa and Canadian NGO Committee on Burma. The aim of the consultation was to deliberate on CFOB’s platform […]
• • •Bitter Wounds and Lost Dreams: Human Rights Under Assault in Karen State, Burma
Even as Burma’s central government institutes political reforms, the Burmese army continues to routinely violate the human rights of ethnic minorities in Karen State, PHR reports, citing findings from a field survey conducted in early 2012.
PHR’s report – Bitter Wounds and Lost Dreams: Human Rights Under Assault in Karen State, Burma – provides a snapshot of ongoing abuses against Karen people and communities in the country’s mountainous eastern region bordering Thailand, where the army has been battling insurgent groups for decades […]
Eight-Point Union-Level Agreement with the Pa-O National Liberation Organization
The Union Peace-Making Work Committee and peace representatives from the PNLO held Union level peace talks and signed the Union level eight-point agreement as follows […]
• •Five-Point State-Level Agreement with the Pa-O National Liberation Organization
The state level peace-making group and the Pa-O National Liberation Organization signed an agreement with the following five points […]
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