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Human Rights and Burma Election 2010

လူ႕အခြင့္အရး ကာကြယ္ျမွင့္တင္သူမ်ားကြန္ယက္ (HRDP) မွထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ေသာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေလ့လာသံုးသပ္ေရး အစီရင္ခံစာသည္ ၂၀၁၀ ျမန္မာ့ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ကာလသံုးပိုင္းခြဲကာ စစ္ေဆးသံုးသပ္ထားသည္ […]

December 30, 2010  •  By Human Rights Defenders and Promoters  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Week 29: 2010 Election Watch (21-27 September)

Developments

  • The SPDC Election Commission rejected the transcripts for the TV and radio campaign messages of the Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics, the 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar), and the Democratic Party (Myanmar) […]
September 29, 2010  •  By Altsean-Burma  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

NUPGE presses Ottawa on Burma rights campaign

‘The record of horrific human rights abuses by the military government of Burma is lengthy.’ – James Clancy.

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is urging the Harper government to support the
call for a United Nations (UN) commission of inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.[…]

August 26, 2010  •  By National Union of Public and General Employees  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

FBCSA Statement on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Birthday

On the occasion of the 65th birthday, the 19th June 2010, of Burma’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi who is the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate and Nelson Mandela’s fellow Elder, his younger Elder sister as such.

The Free Burma Campaign (South Africa)(FBC(SA)) would like to wish Aung San Suu Kyi a very happy birthday […]

June 18, 2010  •  By Free Burma Campaign South Africa  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burma’s Generals Begin Transition to ‘Civilian’ Dictatorship

Responding to media reports that Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein and around 20 other military officers in government positions have resigned their military ranks, Burma Campaign UK described this as the beginning of the transition of Burma from a military to civilian dictatorship […]

April 28, 2010  •  By Burma Campaign UK  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤

Party Registration Laws Set NLD a Deadline

Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), has 60 days from the enactment of the regime’s election laws in which to decide whether or not to accept the terms of the party registration laws set by the regime.

The NLD and other currently legal parties would automatically cease to exist as legal entities if they fail to apply for registration to the election within that time […]

March 9, 2010  •  Tags:  •  Read more ➤

Burma’s Election Commission Law

On 8 March, the junta released the Election Commission Law. Read an unofficial English translation by Mizzima News.

March 8, 2010  •  Tags:  •  Read more ➤

Regime Announces Election Law

The Burmese military regime on Monday announced it had released the much-awaited election law, though it did not set a date for the general election, which is scheduled to take place this year. The state-run television announced that laws have been released regarding an election commission, the party registration process, and rules for members of […]

March 8, 2010  •  Tags:  •  Read more ➤

2010 Election Laws

Full-text of the SPDC’s 2010 Election Laws, including Union Election Commission Law, Political Parties Registration Law, Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House) Election Law and Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House) Election Law.

March 8, 2010  •  By State Peace and Development Council  •  Tags:  •  Read more ➤