On Labour Organisations in Myanmar

When Myanmar’s new Labour Organisation Law was promulgated in October 2011 it brought to an end a period of nearly 50 years during which independent workers’ organisations had been effectively prohibited. Amidst the more open political climate of reform-era Myanmar, labour-related organisations and workers’ unions have proliferated. The result is that some 500 organisations took part in the recent ILO-organised Labour Organisations Conference held in Yangon from 30 April to 1 May 2013 […]

Toronto Declaration

On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Burmese Democracy Movement, the most elaborate ’88 Generation Conference’ was held from June 28 to June 30, 2013 in Toronto, Canada. Over a hundred 88 Generation activists attended from U.S, Canada, and Asia. A number of prominent 88 Generation activists from Burma also participated via the Skype […]

Burma:– Risk of Criminal Proceedings Against Human Rights Defender Mr Chit Ko Lin

On 7 April 2013, Mr Chit Ko Lin was interrogated at Kyaukthadar police station in central Rangoon, following reception of a letter on 6 April from the police station summoning him to appear for questioning. It is reported that Chit Lo Kin is being investigated under Section 353, concerning assaults against public servants, and Section 506, concerning criminal intimidation, of the Penal Code. If he is found guilty under these charges, he faces a maximum sentence of four years […]

Ko Htay Kywe’s Speech in Geneva

Ko Htay Kywe, a former political prisoner and leader of the 88 Generation Students, gave this speech on the human rights situation in Myanmar at a diplomatic briefing in Geneva, Switzerland on 1 March. He called for the United Nations Human Rights Council and the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar to continue to encourage the government to carry out systematic reforms to establish rule of law. He also called for the ongoing mandate of the Special Rapporteur as well as the opening of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Myanmar.

Election Monitoring Re port No.1

The April 1 by-election generally went well. People could genuinely express their own voices through their own votes. While the process was significantly peaceful in all the 45 contested constituencies with a total of 158 candidates, some irregularities […]

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ ျမစ္ၾကီးနား ပဲ့တင္သံ

ကၽြႏု္ပ္တို႕ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးစုေပါင္းစံု ေနထိုင္ေသာ ႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္သည္။ စစ္ေဘးဒဏ္သင့္တိုင္းရင္းသား ညီအစ္ကိုေမာင္ႏွမမ်ားအတြက္ လိုအပ္ေသာ ေထာက္ပံ့ကူညီမႈမ်ား […]

88 Generation Students Visit Myin Chan, Speak to the People

၈၈မ်ဳိးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ျဖစ္ေၾကာင့္ ကိုမင္းေဇယ်၊ ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္၊ ကိုေဌးၾကြယ္၊ ကိုေအာင္သူတို႕မွ ျမင္းျခံျမိဳ႕နယ္အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ရံုးတြင္ ျပည္သူလူထုအား ေတြ႕ဆံုႏႈတ္ဆက္မိန္႕ခြန္းေျပာၾကားခဲ့ရာ […]

88 Generation Students including Min Ko Naing, Min Zaya, Htay Kywe, Aung Thu visited Myin Chan, Mandalay Division and gave speeches about freedom from fear to the public at the NLD’s Myin Chan office yesterday […]

မိခင္ ဧရာဝတီျမစ္ၾကီး ထာဝရ ရွင္သန္ေစေရး ျမန္မာတမ်ဳိးသားလံုးအေရး

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေျမာက္ပိုင္း ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ျမစ္ဖ်ားခံျပီး အိႏၵိယသမုဒၵရာထဲသို႕ စီးဝင္ေနေသာ ဧရာဝတီျမစ္ၾကီးသည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြက္သာမက အာရွတိုက္ၾကီး တခုလံုးအတြက္ပါ အေရးပါေသာ […]

23rd 8888 Anniversary Protest in front of Burmese Consulate in New York (Photos)

About 100 Burmese activists protested in front of Burmese Consulate in New York on Aug 8 to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of 8888 uprising. Protests was led by 88 generation students and joined by other democracy supporters […]

The Cause of Cessation of Civil War and Realization of National Peace – The Cause of Entire People

The civil war in Burma is a dreadful war that came into being since 1948. After sixty years, no successive government has been able to stop the civil war and achieve genuine peace. The SLORC-SPDC military regime’s attainment of ceasefire with ethnic armed forces was but a long-term plan to corral them into surrender […]