Burma’s 2010 Elections: A Comprehensive Report

A report released by the Burma Fund UN Office for the opening of Burma’s first Parliament, documents the widespread political repression and human rights abuses marring the electoral process in the country’s first elections in more than 20 years. It shows that none of the fundamental requirements for free and fair elections exist in Burma, and instead of heralding in positive change, the elections brought about a deepening of Burma’s human rights crisis […]

Burma’s 2010 Elections: Devastating Fraud

Forum for Democracy in Burma has collected and documented election related violations, and explains in this report with 12 chapters to expose that the 2010 election were the election in which people of Burma were intimidated, threatened and […]

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Delivers Speech at World Economic Forum

On Thursday, 28 January 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi delivered a special message to political and business leaders attending the Annual Meeting in Davos. “We need investments in technology and infrastructure,” she pleaded, as Burma strives for national reconciliation, political stability and economic growth.

Watch the video here.

Hiding Behind Its Limits: A Performance Report on the first year of the AICHR

The establishment of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) on 23 October 2009, is a milestone in the history of the regional organisation and deserves congratulations. The Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy Task Force on ASEAN and Human Rights (SAPA TFAHR) offers this critical performance assessment of first year of AICHR based on its core documents, structure, appointment process, institution building, mandate implementation, handling of cases and external relations. It examines AICHR’s progress, achievements and shortcomings in addressing the human rights situation in Southeast Asia […]

World Report 2011: Burma

Burma’s human rights situation remained dire in 2010, even after the country’s first multiparty elections in 20 years. The ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) continued to systematically deny all basic freedoms to citizens and sharply constrained political participation. The rights of freedom of expression, association, assembly, and media remained severely curtailed. The government took no significant steps during the year to release more than 2,100 political prisoners being held, except for the November 13 release of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (052/2011)

* ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႕ထုတ္ စစ္အစိုးရသတင္းစာမ်ား၌ ျပည္သူ႕လႊတ္ေတာ္၊ အမ်ဳိးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္၊ တိုင္းေဒသၾကီးႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္လႊတ္ေတာ္မ်ားအတြက္ စစ္တပ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ စုစုေပါင္း ၃၈၈ ဦး၏ အမည္စာရင္းအား ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္က ခန္႕အပ္ေၾကာင္း ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္ ဥကၠဌမွ လက္မွတ္ထိုးကာ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာလိုက္သည္။
* တိုင္းရင္းသား ေဒသမ်ား၏ စီးပြားေရး ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္မႈကို ေႏွင့္ေႏွးေစသျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ျမန္မာ စစ္အစိုးရအေပၚ စီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆို႕ ဒဏ္ခတ္မႈကို ရုတ္သိမ္းေပးရန္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္ ရွမ္း၊ ရခိုင္၊ မြန္၊ ခ်င္းႏွင့္ ဖလံု-စေဝၚ စသည့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားပါတီတို႕က ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္ […]

Poison Clouds: Lessons from Burma’s Largest Coal Mine Project at Tigyit

The report introduces the coal mine concept at early part followed by detail facts about Tigyi Coal Project. It then explains the on-going human rights abuses and breach of national as the projected was being implemented and how the area is effected by the mining environmentally threatening careers and lives of the residents […]

Widespread Systematically Prepared Advance Voting Determined Winners

This report was produced by Burma International News (BNI) and provides information and comprehensive analysis of Election Day and other related events […]

Life Under the Junta: Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity in Burma’s Chin State

In 2010, Physicians for Human Rights investigated alleged human rights violations against the people of Chin State. Their research revealed extraordinary levels of state and military violence against civilian populations. The report, Life Under the Junta: Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity in Burma’s Chin State, provides the first quantitative data of these human rights violations. The report also reveals that at least eight of the violations surveyed fall within the purview of the International Criminal Court (ICC) […]

Election Report, 2010 Myanmar (Burma) – Pre-Election Observations

The report covers a general overview of the election, the UEC, how many political parties are eligible to run, population statistics and eligible voters, political parties contesting in each state and reagions, influential candidates, problems faced by some parties […]