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Posts Tagged ‘2015 Elections’ (120 found)

၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ႏွင့္ တႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈ ရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ လက္မွတ္မေရးထိုးမွီ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားလႊတ္ေပးရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း

မိမိတို႔ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအသင္းႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ားအဖြဲ႔တို႔သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားအေရးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ျ ခင္း၊ အခြင့္ အေရးမ်ားမွန္ကန္စြာရရွိေရးႏွင့္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတို႔အတြက္ အစဥ္တစိုက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္လွ်က္ရွိပါသည္ […]

September 28, 2015  •  By Assistance Association for Political Prisoners and Former Political Prisoners Society  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Carter Center Issues Statement on Candidate Scrutiny Process and Campaign Environment in Myanmar

ATLANTA — The Carter Center election observation mission has deployed field teams to observe the electoral campaign, which officially started on Sept. 8. The first week of campaigning, as observed by the Center in three states, was peaceful, and parties report being able to conduct their campaign activities without significant difficulty. The Center remains concerned that strict enforcement of campaign regulations, and recently announced limitations on political speech, could have a negative impact on pre-election political space […]

September 25, 2015  •  By The Carter Center  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burma’s 2015 Elections: No Place for Ignorance, Discrimination, or the Ma Ba Tha

Ma Ba ThaOn 15 September 2015, the foreign embassies of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Norway, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America issued a joint statement calling on the Burma Government to ensure transparency in the 2015 elections. The focus of their announcement highlighted a growing concern amongst observers of Burma’s transition towards democracy, “As the campaign in Myanmar officially begins, however, we, as international partners invested in the success of this country and these elections, are concerned about the prospect of religion being used as a tool of division and conflict during the campaign season […]”

September 22, 2015  •  By Burma Partnership  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ႏိုင္ငံတကာျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေန႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည့္ တၿပိဳင္နက္တည္းတြင္ပင္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး ေတြ႔ဆံုစကားေျပာေနသည့္ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ (KIA)၊ တအာင္း (ပေလာင္) အမ်ဳိးသားလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ (TNLA)၊ ျမန္မာအမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီမဟာမိတ္တပ္မေတာ္ (MNDAA)၊ ရွမ္းျပည္တပ္မေတာ္ေတာင္ပိုင္း (RCSS/SSA) စသည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ ေရး အဖြဲ႔မ်ားအား အစိုးရမွ တိုက္ေလယာဥ္မ်ား သံုးကာ အျပင္းအထန္ ဆက္လက္ထိုးစစ္ဆင္မႈမ်ားရွိခဲ့ၿပီး လက္ရွိတြင္လည္း ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ဆက္လက္ျဖစ္ပြားလွ်က္ရွိသည္ […]

September 21, 2015  •  By Burmese Women's Union  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Concerns About Burma’s Candidate Disqualifications

The United States is concerned about the disqualification of approximately 100 candidates for Burma’s upcoming general election, with over half of the cases rejected based on questions of citizenship […]

September 17, 2015  •  By US Department of State  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

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 […]

September 15, 2015  •  By Burma Partnership  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Joint Statement on Elections from the Embassies of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Norway, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States of America

The quality of the parliamentary election on 8 November will be a critical marker in Myanmar’s transition to democracy. For that reason, we are supporting efforts to promote a credible, transparent, and inclusive election, underpinned by healthy competition that ensures freedom of expression and respect for human rights […]

September 14, 2015  •  By Embassies of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Norway, Japan, Sweden, The United Kingdom and The United States of America  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ASEAN Parliamentarians Urge International Action to Address Escalating Human Rights Concerns Ahead of Elections in Myanmar

NEW YORK, 14 September 2015 – With elections less than two months away, Myanmar stands at a critical moment in its political transition. But without deliberate steps to address core human rights concerns, including support from the international community, the country risks veering from a path toward democracy, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) said today […]

September 14, 2015  •  By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤