Burma’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council

June 13, 2011  •  Read more ➤

Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar

This is the final day of my mission to Thailand which began on 16 May 2011. I visited Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son and Bangkok this time in my efforts to gather information about the situation inside Myanmar where I have not been able to visit. This information is important for preparation of my next report to the UN General Assembly later this year […]

NLD Statement Regarding Tourism in Burma

National League for Democracy (97/B), West Shwegondaing Road Bahan Township, Rangoon Statement No. 10/05/11 Burma is one of the largest countries in South East Asia and offers a sweeping variety of tourist attractions. Monuments of historical interest are to be found in the ancient cities of Sri Kestra, Pagan, Mrauk-U, Mandalay and Pegu. Much of […]

100 Days of Burma’s Parliament: Strengthening the Status Quo

The 11th of May marks one hundred days since the convening of Burma’s Parliament on 31 January. The laws governing the proceedings of the first parliamentary session in 22 years gagged MPs and restrict civilian access to the Parliament. Many MPs complained about being subjected to detention-like living conditions. The regime also barred domestic journalists and foreign correspondents from covering the session […]

Burma Representatives Attend ASEAN Civil Society Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia

April 27, 2011  •  Read more ➤

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 […]

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 […]

Sanctions on Burma: A Review by the NLD

In recent months sanctions have repeatedly featured in discussions over the kind of policies that would best encourage positive change in Burma. Are current administrative policies and practices conducive to a healthy economy, with or without sanctions? Are allegations that sanctions have exacerbated the hardships of the people of Burma justified or are such accusations based on political motives? Are sanctions in their present form likely to achieve the desired objectives? Are there credible signs of progress in the democratization process? The issue of sanctions needs to be examined within the broad context of political desiderata and economic realities […]

ျပည္ေထာင္စုအစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ ဥပေဒသစ္ စစ္တမ္း

နိဒါန္း

မၾကာခင္က ထုတ္ျပန္တဲ့ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ ဥပေဒဟာ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတရဲ႕ လုပ္ပုိင္ခြင့္အေသးစိတ္ကုိ ျပ႒ာန္းထားရုံမက မၾကာခင္ဖြဲ႕စည္းမဲ့ အရပ္သားအစိုးရသစ္ကုိ ဘယ္လုိလုပ္ကုိင္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းရမလဲဆိုတာပါ ၾကိဳးကုိင္လမ္းညႊန္ထားတဲ့ ဥပေဒလဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီဥပေဒကုိ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးၾကီး သန္းေရႊက ၂၀၁၀ ေအာက္တုိဘာ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႔စြဲနဲ႕ လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးထားေပမဲ့ လႊတ္ေတာ္မစခင္ကမွ ရန္ကုန္မွာ ေရာင္းခ်ခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

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 […]