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Posts Tagged ‘All Burma Federation of Student Unions’ (27 found)

Myanmar: Investigate Use of Excessive Force Against Letpadan Protesters

(Yangon, April 14, 2016)—While welcoming the Government of Myanmar’s recent release of political prisoners, Fortify Rights and the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic urged authorities today to open a formal investigation into the violent police crackdown against protesters in March 2015 in Letpadan […]

April 14, 2016  •  By Fortify Rights  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ဗမာႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢမ်ားအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ၏ သေဘာထားေၾကညာခ်က္

(၁) ဒီမိုကေရစီပညာေရးသပိတ္စစ္ေၾကာင္း ျဖဳိခြဲခံရျပီးေနာက္ သာယာဝတီအက်ဥ္းေထာင္အတြင္း (၁)ႏွစ္ႏွင့္(၂၉)ရက္ၾကာ ေနထိုင္ခဲ့ရေသာေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူမ်ား၊ဒီမိုကေရစီပညာေရး ၾကဳိးပမ္းခဲ့သူမ်ား၊ႏိုင္ငံေရးတက္ၾကြလႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ား၊အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ အသီးသီးတြင္ အမႈရင္ဆိုင္ေနရေသာ ေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ဖမ္းဝရမ္း ထုတ္ခံထားရသူမ်ားသည္၈. ၄. ၂၀၁၆ေန႕ညေနတြင္ ျပန္လည္လြတ္ေျမာက္လာၾကပါသည္ […]

April 9, 2016  •  By All Burma Federation of Student Unions  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

New Lease of Life in Burma Parliament but Political Prisoners Left Behind

20150330MyanmarPolice7_article_main_imageOptimism swept over Burma this past week as hopes for historic changes to the country heightened with the start of the new Parliament dominated by the National League for Democracy (NLD) […]

February 9, 2016  •  By Burma Partnership  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Medical Crisis for Political Prisoners of Letpadan Case

There has been a significant deterioration in the health and well-being of 53 students and supporters who have been detained without bail for nine months at Thayawaddy prison. Their criminal trial has now dragged on for nine months. If convicted, they could face up to ten years in prison […]

January 25, 2016  •  By All Burma Federation of Student Unions, Letpadan Justice Committee and Justice Trust  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar: Prisoner Amnesty Marred by Outrageous Jailing of Activist for Facebook Post

A prisoner amnesty in Myanmar today does not go nearly far enough as scores of peaceful activists remain behind bars, Amnesty International said. The jailing today of another activist just hours after the amnesty was announced is a stark reminder of how prevalent repression still is in the country […]

January 22, 2016  •  By Amnesty International  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ဗမာႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢမ်ားအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ အသိေပး ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ အစာငတ္ခံတိုက္ပြဲဝင္ေနေသာ ကိုေအာင္မိႈင္းဆန္း ႏွင့္ တကြ ရဲေဘာ္ အားလံုး သည္ အစာငတ္ခံ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ေနျခင္း ကို ယာယီ အားျဖင့္ ရပ္ဆိုင္းလိုက္ပါသည္ […]

November 17, 2015  •  By All Burma Federation of Student Unions  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Southeast Asia: Refugee Crisis and Freedom of Expression Must be Tackled at ASEAN Summit

Southeast Asian leaders meeting this week in Malaysia must urgently prioritize a coordinated plan to help the thousands of asylum seekers and migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh who are forced to risk abuse and death at sea, said Amnesty International […]

November 16, 2015  •  By Amnesty International  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Students Rally against Education Law

Photo By ABFSUFour hundred students held a march through Rangoon on Friday, begining at the central railway station and culminating in a sit-in demonstration outside the town hall. The protest continued until evening and coincided with US President Obama’s visit to the former capital.

The protest was staged in opposition to the National Education Law, signed into effect by President Thein Sein on 30 September. […]

November 14, 2014  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Mon Students Propose Law Guaranteeing Ethnic Language Teaching

Photo by BNIThe Organising Committee for the Mon State Students Union will propose that all ethnic students should be given the right and opportunity to study their own ethnic language in school according to Organising Committee member Ko Phone Myat Moe.

The proposal will be made at the All Burma Students Emergency Conference being held at the Free Funeral Service Society (FFSS) in Rangoon (Yangon) on 12th and 13th November. […]

November 13, 2014  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤