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Abuse, Poverty and Migration: Investigating Migrants’ Motivations to Leave Home in Burma
This report analyses the root causes of large-scale migration by Burmese workers that find employment in Thailand and other countries in the region. Identifying these root causes has important implications for the assistance and protection of these migrants […]
• • •Heroin Epidemic in Kachin State
This report, by Kachin News Group, details drug use in the Hpakant jade mine areas, Northern Kachin State of Burma, that leaves the community with so many problems and corruptions that let all these happen […]
• • •Robbing the Future: Russian-backed Mining Project Threatens Pa-O Communities in Shan State, Burma
This report details the development of the Burma’s second largest iron deposit by the military regime and a Russian state-owned company. The project will destroy the homes of 7,000 villagers and affect another 35,000 people. […]
• • •Burmese Constitutional Referendum: Neither Free Nor Fair
The purpose of this report is to analyze whether the SPDC conducted the May 10th constitutional referendum in Burma in accordance with basic international standards for free and fair referendum processes. The report reviews basic standards for constitutional referendums and, using media and other reports, analyzes the administration of the referendum under those standards. The report finds that the referendum was not free or fair, as it was not conducted in accordance with international law or basic democratic standards.
• • •No More Denial: Children Affected by Armed Conflict in Myanmar (Burma)
This report of Watchlist focuses on the impact of armed conflict on children and violations against children on armed conflicts in Burma. Information presented in the report is based on secondary sources available in the public and […]
• • •Crimes in Burma
A report based on an analysis of UN documents – including UN General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights resolutions, as well as reports from several different Special Rapporteurs – indicate that Burma’s military regime may be committing crimes against humanity and war crimes prosecutable under international law. The report concludes with a call for […]
• • •Laid Waste: Human Rights along the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay Gas Pipeline
A 100-page report that details abuses along the entire length of an overland pipeline that traverses nearly half the length of Burma’s southern peninsula. Laid Waste also details abuses committed by Burma’s military regime as it has sought to construct, maintain and protect the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay gas pipeline.
• • •Burma’s prisons and labour camps: Silent killing fields
Outlines the health impact of systematic torture, long-term imprisonment, transfers to remote prisons, and denial of healthcare on the country’s pro-democracy activists. Download the Report Here
• • •Shwegondaing Declaration
Statement from the National League for Democracy (NLD) that they will not support the 2010 elections unless the regime meets key benchmarks. […]
• • •Undercurrents Issue 3: Monitoring Developments on Burma’s Mekong
A periodic magazine that monitors developments along Burma’s Mekong River. This issue focuses on how the expanding influence of Chinese interests in the Golden Triangle region, from rubber plantations to wildlife trading, is bringing rapid destructive changes to local communities. There are also articles on opium cultivation, mining operations, the mainstream Mekong dams in China, […]
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