Farmland Confiscation and Labour Exploitation: The Critical Conditions of the Lives of the Toiling Mass

Confiscation of farmland and exploitation of labour do not only amount to being invaded by the military government and its cronies. The farmers whose social and economic life dependent upon the land are subjected to being treated like slaves as well […]

Resolution 16/24 – Situation of human rights in Myanmar

The full text of the United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution that calls for the release of political prisoners, freedom of information and association, an independent judiciary and political reconciliation, and also extends the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana.

Burma 2011: Still a Military Dictatorship

Despite the convening of the newly elected Parliament, Burma’s ‘democratically-elected’ regime is nothing more than a disguised version of the military dictatorship that has ruled Burma for the past five decades […]

Q & A on an International Commission of Inquiry

In March 2010, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana, called on the UN to consider the possibility of establishing a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into crimes in violation of international law committed in Burma. Thus far, 16 states have endorsed this call to address systematic, widespread, and serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. Such abuses include war crimes and possible crimes against humanity by the Burmese armed forces and non-state armed groups.

Human Rights Watch calls on relevant UN bodies to establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate reports of violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in Burma by all parties, and to identify the perpetrators of such violations with a view to ensuring that those responsible are held accountable […]

Burma Briefer No. 10: Political Prisoners in Burma – A Crime Against Humanity

[…] Most attention on possible war crimes and crimes against humanity taking place in Burma has focused on attacks and persecution on ethnic minorities, particularly crimes committed against the ethnic Karen, Karenni and Shan in Eastern Burma, and against the Rohingya in Western Burma, and the Chin in the Northwest. This briefing looks at an area which has so far not received much attention, the detention and treatment of political prisoners […]

Progress report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana

Myanmar undertook national elections for the first time in over two decades on 7 November 2010. One week later, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released unconditionally upon the end of her house arrest term. The new national parliament began meeting on 31 January 2011. Amidst much uncertainty, there appears to be some cautious optimism that positive change may be possible. Among those changes that the people of Myanmar dare to hope for is the realization of their economic, social and cultural rights. For this reason, the Special Rapporteur begins to address in the present report the subject of economic, social and cultural rights, starting with the right to education.

The Special Rapporteur also reiterates his call for a Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity and war crimes […]

Burma Issues & Concerns Vol. 6: The 2010 Generals’ Elections

The report provides an incisive analysis of Burma’s 2010 elections and documents the extent to which the SPDC orchestrated and controlled every aspect of the election process. The report analyzes the conduct of the election process using key indicators based on commonly accepted standards for election monitoring (i.e. UN, OSCE, and EU guidelines) to demonstrate that the polls were not free and fair […]

Release over 2200 Political Prisoners NOW!

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has released a report titled, “Release Over 2200 Political Prisoners NOW!” This report is an effort of 12 groups working inside Burma to promote democracy, human rights and national reconciliation. The 12 groups took a great risk and operated in secret to contribute to the release of this report due to the repressive and highly dangerous environment facing human rights defenders and pro-democracy activists in Burma […]

Constructive Engagement – Building a People-Oriented Community

The report is an outcome of the region’s stakeholders and government officials meeting in November 2009 and captures key discussions, initiatives and action plans developed. Participants aimed to ensure an ASEAN Community by 2015 that engages and benefits the people of ASEAN […]

မတရားဆံုး မတရားမႈမ်ား – ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ

၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ မသမာမႈမ်ားကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္ဖြင့္ခ် စုစည္းတင္ျပထားေသာ အစီရင္ခံစာတေစာင္ကို “မတရားဆံုး မတရားမႈမ်ား” အမည္ျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္အင္အားစုမ်ားမွ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇန္နဝါရီလ၊ ၃၁ ရက္ ေန႕စြဲျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္သည္။
ထို႕အျပင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတခု၏ လြတ္လပ္မႈႏွင့္ တရားမွ်တမႈ ရွိမရွိကို တိုင္းတာသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာစံႏႈန္း (၁၆) ခ်က္ကို ဤအစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားျပီး နအဖစစ္အစိုးရမွ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသည္ ၎စံႏႈန္းမ်ားအနက္ တခ်က္ႏွင့္မွ် မကိုက္ညီေၾကာင္း ေထာက္ျပထားပါသည္။ ထိုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ ရလဒ္ျဖစ္သည့္ ယေန႕ေခၚယူေနေသာ လႊတ္ေတာ္မ်ားမွာလည္း တိုင္းျပည္၏ လက္ရွိအၾကပ္အတည္းမ်ားကို ေျဖရွင္းေပးႏိုင္မည့္ အေျခအေန လံုးဝကင္းမဲ့ေနေၾကာင္းကို အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားျဖင့္ ေထာက္ျပထားပါသည္ […]