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ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint
This Blueprint represents the human dimension of ASEAN cooperation and upholds ASEAN commitment to address the region’s aspiration to lift the quality of life of its peoples, by implementing concrete and productive actions that are people-centered and socially responsible. Download
• • •ASEAN Political Security Community Blueprint
This Blueprint envisages ASEAN to be a rules-based Community of shared values and norms; a cohesive, peaceful, stable and resilient region with shared responsibility for comprehensive security; as well as a dynamic and outward-looking region in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world. The Blueprint provides a roadmap and timetable to establish the APSC by 2015. […]
• • •Holding Our Ground: Land Confiscation in Arakan & Mon States, and Pa-O Area of Southern Shan State
A report outlining land confiscation in three areas of the country – Arakan State, Mon State and the Pa-O Area of southern Shan State – where the brutal treatment of civilians at the hand of the military junta has been under documented.
• • •After the Storm: Voices from the Delta
After the Storm: Voices from the Delta is the first independent report assessing the response of the Burmese regime to Cyclone Nargis, which struck Burma in May 2008. It exposes how the Burmese regime committed human rights abuses in its response to the cyclone by obstructing relief to victims of the cyclone.
• • •“We Are Like Forgotten People”: The Chin People of Burma: Unsafe in Burma, Unprotected in India
In this 93-page report, Human Rights Watch documents a wide range of human rights abuses carried out by the Burmese army and government officials. The abuses include forced labor, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, religious repression and other restrictions on fundamental freedoms. In Mizoram state, India, Chin people remain at risk of discrimination and abuse […]
• • •ASEAN Charter
The constitution of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN), that came into force December 2008. Download the Charter in English or Burmese.
• • •The 2008 Myanmar Constitution: Analysis and Assessment
International constitutional scholar, Yash Ghai, presents an analysis of the SPDC’s 2008 Constitution.
• • •Village Agency: Rural rights and resistance in militarized Karen State
Citing the personal testimonies of over 110 villagers living in Karen State, this report seeks to challenge common portrayals of villagers as helpless victims, and provide a forum for these individuals to speak for themselves about the context of abuse in which they live and their own efforts to resist this abuse. By highlighting the […]
• • •Open Heart Report
The report is a compilation of findings in the letters sent to the 88 Generation Students of Burma during a campaign in which the student leaders encouraged the people to write letters to the Burmese generals about the difficulties they had been facing under military rule. The 88 Generation student leaders are now in prison […]
• •In the Shadow of the Junta
A report compiled by the Women’s League of Burma and member organizations, focusing on the problems faced by women and girls in rural areas, including ethnic lands, as a result of armed conflict.
After signing the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1997, Burma’s military regime submitted reports to the CEDAW Committee in 1997 and 2007. This Shadow Report seeks to address issues that were not adequately documented by the junta in those reports. […]
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