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Report on Ceasefire Groups Resisting SPDC’s Pressure and Instability
A report that illustrates issues concerning ethnic ceasefire groups in the lead up to the elections, and the junta’s plan to transform groups into Border Guard Force (BGF), including details on each ethnic ceasefire organization’s positionon the elections and the BGF […]
• • •Canada Renews Support for Burmese Refugees and Displaced People
On behalf of the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, Kelly Block, Member of Parliament for Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar, today announced the Government of Canada will continue support for Burmese refugees and displaced persons living in Burma’s border areas.
“Canada’s renewed support builds on the significant results being achieved in Burma’s border areas. […]
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 […]
• • •Resources on the Nationality Verification Process
The Migrant Justice Programme of the Human Rights and Development Foundation produced two useful resources for those wanting to learn more about the complex National Verification (NV) process for migrant workers in Thailand. The Nationality Verification Fact Sheet is a concise three-page introduction, which includes a time line of both Thai government and civil society’s […]
• • •Singapore ‘disappointed’ at Myanmar court ruling on Suu Kyi
Singapore said Friday it was disappointed that Myanmar’s Supreme Court had rejected an appeal by democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest. “It is of course very disappointing that her appeal did not succeed,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. Singapore said a dialogue between Myanmar authorities, Suu Kyi and […]
• •Walking Amongst Sharp Knives
A report that reveals previously unreported abuses taking place against ethnic Karen women in Burma.
The practice of the Burmese Army to execute village heads has led to traditional Karen culture being turned upside-down, with women now being appointed village chiefs as they are seen as less likely to be killed. […]
From the Tiger to the Crocodile: Abuse of Migrant Workers in Thailand
A 124-page report that is based on 82 interviews with migrants from neighboring Burma, Cambodia, and Laos. It describes the widespread and severe human rights abuses faced by migrant workers in Thailand, including killings, torture in detention, extortion, and sexual abuse, and labor rights abuses such as trafficking, forced labor, and restrictions on organizing. Download […]
• • •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 […]
• • •ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအမ်ိဳးသားညြန္႕ေပါင္းအစိုးရမွ ၆၂ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားေန႕သို႕ ေပးပို႕သည့္ ဂုဏ္ျပဳသ၀ဏ္လႊာ
၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီလ (၂၀)ရက္ေန႕သည္ မဂၤလာအေပါင္းႏွင့္ ျပည့္စုံေသာ (၆၂)ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ “ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားေန႕”ျဖစ္ေပသည္။ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားမ်ား၏ ဤသမိုင္း၀င္ ေန႕ျမတ္တြင္ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ ခ်င္းေတာ္လွန္ေရးရဲေဘာ္မ်ားႏွင့္တကြ ခ်င္းတိုင္းရင္းသား ျပည္သူ တရပ္လုံး ကိုယ္စိတ္ႏွစ္ျဖာ က်န္းမာ ခ်မ္းသာၾကေစေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားတို႕၏ “ကိုယ့္ၾကမၼာ ကိုယ္ဖန္တီးခြင့္ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈ” အျမန္ဆုံး ေအာင္ျမင္ပါေစေၾကာင္း ေလးနက္စြာ ဆုေတာင္းေမတၲာပို႕သ အပ္ပါသည္။ ျဗိတိသွ်နယ္ခ်ဲ႕သမား၏ က်ဴးေက်ာ္စစ္ (၃)ႀကိမ္ျပဳၿပီးေနာက္၊ အျခားတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား နည္းတူ၊ ခ်င္းတိုင္းရင္းသားတို႕လည္း နယ္ခ်ဲ႕ လက္ေအာက္ က်ေရာက္ခဲ့ရသည္။ ဦး၀မ္းသူေမာင္ အစရွိေသာ ပညာတတ္ ခ်င္းလူငယ္မ်ား၏ ဦးေဆာင္မႈျဖင့္ ၁၉၃၃ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ “ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသား မ်ား စည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ေရးအဖြဲ႕” ကို ဖြဲ႕၍ “ဒို႕ဗမာအစည္းအရုံး” ႏွင့္ ဆက္သြယ္ကာ၊ နယ္ခ်ဲ႕ေတာ္လွန္ေရးတြင္ ေရွ႕တန္းမွ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းအပါအ၀င္ […]
• • •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 […]
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