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Stop Killing Rohingyas in Arakan
We the undersigned Rohingya organizations strongly condemn the killing of a 25 year old Rohingya youth namely Maung Maung on 7 December by Border Guard Police (BGP) while he was returning home […]
• • •Myanmar: UN General Assembly Resolution still Needed in Light of Ongoing Serious Human Rights Situation
Amnesty International and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) call on all UN member states to recognize the continued need for a resolution on the situation of human rights in Myanmar at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in light of the ongoing human rights violations taking place in the country […]
• • •UN General Assembly Resolution on Burma – No Practical Action to End Abuses
Burma Campaign UK today described the draft UN General Assembly Resolution on the situation of human rights in Burma as not reflecting the scale and seriousness of the human rights situation on the ground, or the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar […]
• • •UK Must Support UN Inquiry Into Possible Rohingya Genocide
Burma Campaign UK is calling on the British government to back a UN Commission of Inquiry into the human rights situation in Rakhine State, Burma […]
• • •United Nations: Establish Independent Investigation into Genocide in Myanmar
(BANGKOK, October 29, 2015)—There is strong evidence that the government of Myanmar is responsible for genocide against Rohingya Muslims, according to a legal analysis prepared for Fortify Rights by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School. In light of the findings, Fortify Rights said the United Nations must immediately establish a Commission of Inquiry into widespread and systematic human rights violations in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, including into whether the crime of genocide has occurred […]
• • •Burmese Election Must Show Commitment to Democracy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding democratic elections in Burma […]
• • •ASEAN parliamentarians warn of looming regional crisis resulting from systematic discrimination in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
BANGKOK, 16 October 2015 – Increasingly marginalized and desperate, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State are being forced to flee in ever-greater numbers, exacerbating a regional crisis that ASEAN leaders are woefully ill prepared to cope with, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) warned today […]
• • •ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ရခိုင္ခရီးစဥ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ေသာ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
ကြဲျပားစရာအေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ား မည္သို႔ပင္ရွိေစကာမူ ကြ်ႏ္ုပ္တို႔အေနျဖင့္ သမိုင္းေၾကာင္း
အစဥ္အလာဂုဏ္သိကၡာအရ အိမ္ရွင္မွဧည့္သည္အေပၚ ဧည့္ဝတ္တရားေက်ပြန္ရမည္ျဖစ္သျဖင့္
အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဥကၠ႒ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ရခိုင္ျပည္ခရီးစဥ္အား က်န္တိုင္းရင္း
သားျပည္သူတစ္ရပ္လံုးႏွင့္အတူ ဂုဏ္ယူဝမ္းေျမာက္ ႀကိဳဆိုပါသည္ […]
The UEC Must Review Discriminatory Candidate Rejections
On 20 August, the Union Election Commission (UEC) announced the preliminary candidate lists for the upcoming 8 November General Election. So far, 5,866 candidates have been nominated from 93 political parties across the country, with both the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the National League for Democracy (NLD) each fielding over 1,000 candidates […]
Joint Statement on Disenfranchisement and ‘Policy of Exclusion’ of the Rohingya
The undersigned Rohingya Organizations in Europe have strongly denounced the undemocratic actions of the Election Commission against Rohingya parliamentary candidates under the government’s ‘policy of exclusion’ of the Rohingya, debarring them from contesting in the upcoming crucial election scheduled on November 8, 2015, on a false and fabricated charge that their parents were not citizens […]
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