ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးသံုးသပ္ခ်က္ (၂/၂၀၁၁) – အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္ရင္ၾကားေစ့ေရးႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုးေဆြးေႏြးေရးျဖစ္စဥ္

၁၉၈၈ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အေရးေတာ္ပံုၾကီးအျပီး ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႕ စစ္အစိုးရတို႕ ထိပ္တိုက္ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့တာ ၂၃ႏွစ္တာကာလ အတြင္းမွာ ၁၆ၾကိမ္ေျမာက္ ရွိလာခဲ့ပါျပီ။ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့တဲ့ မွတ္တမ္းေတြကိုၾကည့္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ၁၉၉၄ ခုႏွစ္မွာ (၂) ၾကိမ္၊ ၂၀၀၂ ခုႏွစ္မွာ (၁) ၾကိမ္၊ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္မွာ (၃) ၾကိမ္၊ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္မွာ (၃) ၾကိမ္၊ […]

ASEAN should delay Burma’s chairmanship to help ensure it moves towards democratic transition and peace

Since it requested the ASEAN Chairmanship in 2014, Burma’s regime has engaged in a campaign designed to make the country appear ready to chair the regional bloc. However, despite these attempts to win over ASEAN member states, the changes made by the regime have been superficial and far from being sufficient.

Granting Burma the chairmanship at this point would be premature, and a waste of a unique opportunity to encourage Burma along a path to genuine democratic transition and national reconciliation […]

Burma’s Regime Does it Again: Political Prisoners Remain in Jail

On 12 October, Burma’s regime released 6,359 prisoners from jails across the country. However, only 220 political prisoners were among those released.

The regime’s routine mass releases of prisoners haven’t resulted in the release of significant numbers of political prisoners. Political prisoners have accounted for about 1% of the prisoners freed by the regime during mass amnesties […]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Burma

This is a key moment in Myanmar’s history and there are real opportunities for positive and meaningful developments to improve the human rights situation and deepen the transition to democracy. The new Government has taken a number of
steps towards these ends […]

Imprisoned for Reporting

A legal analysis of the cases of five Burmese video-journalists, who remain in prison despite the release of some 200 political prisoners by the Burmese government, discloses flagrant breaches of human rights. The Note, by the Centre for Law and Democracy, found widespread abuses of the rights to freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom from torture. The violations result from both the Burmese government’s abusive application of laws that restrict freedom of expression, and their capricious application of broader legislation to target political opponents […]

The Labour Organization Law (2011)

The full text of the Labour Organization Law in English and Burmese.

An ILO Commission of Inquiry on Freedom of Association in Burma (Myanmar) – The time is now!

Freedom of association has long been denied in law and practice in Burma (Myanmar), despite several years of strong criticism by the ILO supervisory bodies. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and its affiliate, the Federation of Trade Unions – Burma (FTUB), call upon the Governing Body of […]

Burma’s Covered Up War: Atrocities Against the Kachin People

At the same time as Thein Sein’s government is engaging in public relations maneuvers designed to make it appear that reform is taking place, its army is perpetrating atrocities against the Kachin people on a widespread and systematic basis. Seven months […]

ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးသံုးသပ္ခ်က္ (၁/၂၀၁၁)

ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားအား ခၽြင္းခ်က္မရွိ လႊတ္ေပးေရးသည္ အလြန္အေရးၾကီးသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္တစ္ခုျဖစ္ျပီး လြတ္ျငိမ္းခ်က္သာခြင့္ႏွင့္လည္း ဆက္စပ္ေနသည္။

ဦးသိန္းစိန္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေသာ ၾကံ့ဖြံ႕အစိုးရသည္ ယခင္နအဖစစ္အစိုးရကဲ့သို႕ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္မ်ားတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား မရွိပါဟု အၾကိမ္ၾကိမ္ ျငင္းဆိုေနသည္ကို ေတြ႕ရသည္ […]

Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Accepting of Complaint

The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has been established to promote and protect the fundamental rights of citizens enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and it has opened its office at No. 27, Pyay Road, Hline Township, Yangon […]