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Statement by Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar at the 70h session of the General Assembly
I would like to begin by renewing my deepest sympathies to all those affected by the floods and landslides in Myanmar in recent months […]
• • •Report on Repressive Laws in Burma
In spite of the reforms in Burma in recent years, the process of democratization has been called into question by the persistence of grave human rights violations and the absence of any significant progress on genuine democractic reforms, notably with regard to the process of legal reform […]
Statement by Kawthoolei Armed Forces on signing NCA
Our First Karen President in history never signed to be a part of Burma, or a part of a Union to gain the Independence of Burma from the British. (Neither did the Arakan, Mon or Karenni) […]
• • •လက္ရွိ ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ စစ္ေရးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္သည့္ ပေလာင္ျပည္နယ္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္ဦး သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
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2015 Elections Highlight Longstanding Gender Imbalance
The Union Election Commission has announced that of the 6,189 candidates that registered for the 2015 elections on 8 November, only 800 are women […]
Statement on the Discussion on LGBTs in Mandalay During the 13thMandalay Region Parliamentary Session
Myanmar LGBT Rights Network seriously condemns the Mandalay Region Parliamentary discussion on cracking down on transgender women and gay people in their 13th Parliamentary session on August, 2015, as it can cause more arbitrary arrests of transgender women and gay people in Mandalay […]
• • •Burma Army Flexes its Muscles in Political Purge
In a dramatic development on the August 12, Parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann was ousted from his position as Chair of the ruling party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). Security forces surrounded USDP headquarters in Naypyidaw and purged the influential political figure from his position within the party. Information Minister, Ye Htut, stated that his close relationship with National League for Democracy (NLD) leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as support for constitutional change that would reduce the power of the Burma Army was behind his ouster […]
Humanitarian Aid not Political Maneuvering
This year’s monsoon rains have hit Burma harder than most years in the country’s history, leading to the worst natural disaster since Cyclone Nargis in 2008. So far, nearly 100 people have died from the severe flooding caused by heavy rains and flash floods and over one million people have been affected in all but two of Burma’s 14 states and regions since June 2015. Approximately 1.2 million acres of rice fields have been destroyed including large parts of Burma’s “rice bowl,” the Irrawaddy Delta, and nearly 14,000 educational institutions have been temporarily shut down due to this natural disaster […]
(၂၇) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ရွစ္ေလးလုံးဒီမုိကေရစီ အေရးေတာ္ပုံေန႔ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္လ (၈)ရက္ေန႔သည္ ရဟန္းရွင္လူေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ားႏွင့္လူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံ ျပည္သူတရပ္လုံး၏စြမ္းပကားျဖင့္ တစ္ပါတီအာဏာရွင္စနစ္ကုိ စတင္တြန္းလွန္ျဖိဳဖ်က္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည့္ (၂၇)ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ သမုိင္း၀င္ေန႔ထူးေန႔ျမတ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ရွစ္ေလးလုံးဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးေတာ္ပုံကာလမွ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္တိုက္ပြဲအတြင္း အသက္၊ ေသြး၊ ေခြ်းတုိ႔ေပးဆပ္ကာ တုိက္ပဲြ၀င္ရင္း က်ဆုံးသြားေသာ အာဇာနည္ရဟန္းရွင္လူေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံျပည္သူတရပ္လုံးႏွင့္ မတရားဖမ္းဆီးခံေနရသည့္ အာဇာနည္သူရဲေကာင္းအေပါင္းတုိ႔ကုိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္ကြန္ဂရက္ (SYCB) မွဦးညြတ္ဂုဏ္ျပဳအပ္ပါသည္ […]
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