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Posts Tagged ‘ASEAN’ (637 found)

၂၀၁၅ အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ရခုိင္ျပည္လုံးဆုိင္ရာေက်ာင္းသားႏွင့္လူငယ္မ်ားအစည္းအ႐ုံး (AASYC) မွ ထုုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

(၁၉၆၂)ခုႏွစ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေန၀င္း အာဏာသိမ္းလိုက္ခ်ိန္မွ (၂၀၁၀)ခုႏွစ္ထိ ျမန္မာျပည္သူလူထုအေနျဖင့္ မိမိတို႔၏ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူအစိုးရအား လြတ္လပ္စြာ ေ႐ြးေကာက္တင္ေျမွာက္ခြင့္မရခဲ့ၾကေပ […]

October 17, 2015  •  By All Arakan Students' and Youths' Congress  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Human Rights Watch: Activists Charged for Mocking Military Online

(New York) – Burmese authorities should immediately release two people arrested this week for posting images on social media mocking the military, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrests took place in the run-up to the November 8, 2015 elections, with the military firmly in charge behind the scenes […]

October 17, 2015  •  By Human Rights Watch  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

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 […]

October 16, 2015  •  By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ရခိုင္ခရီးစဥ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ေသာ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

ကြဲျပားစရာအေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ား မည္သို႔ပင္ရွိေစကာမူ ကြ်ႏ္ုပ္တို႔အေနျဖင့္ သမိုင္းေၾကာင္း
အစဥ္အလာဂုဏ္သိကၡာအရ အိမ္ရွင္မွဧည့္သည္အေပၚ ဧည့္ဝတ္တရားေက်ပြန္ရမည္ျဖစ္သျဖင့္
အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဥကၠ႒ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ရခိုင္ျပည္ခရီးစဥ္အား က်န္တိုင္းရင္း
သားျပည္သူတစ္ရပ္လံုးႏွင့္အတူ ဂုဏ္ယူဝမ္းေျမာက္ ႀကိဳဆိုပါသည္ […]

October 16, 2015  •  By Arakan National Network  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Vice Chair Crowley Extremely Concerned About Burmese Government’s Arrest of Peaceful Activists

(Queens, NY) – Today, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus and a leader in the House of Representatives on Burma, released the following statement in response to the Burmese government’s arrest and charging of two peaceful activists for peacefully exercising their freedom of speech […]

October 16, 2015  •  By US Congressman Joseph Crowley  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Disenfranchisement and Desperation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State: Drivers of a Regional Crisis

Rakhine statePolitical exclusion is exacerbating the already intense sense of desperation among Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and driving a regional crisis that ASEAN leaders are ill prepared to confront. Unless serious steps are taken to address the situation of deprivation and despair in Rakhine State, many Rohingya will have no other option but to flee in search of asylum elsewhere […]

October 16, 2015  •  By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement by the Peace Support Group on the Signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord in Myanmar

The Peace Support Group ( PSG) welcomes the first signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord ( NCA) by the political and military leadership of several armed groups, the Government and the Tatmadaw in Nay Pyi Taw […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Peace Support Group  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

If Naypyidaw Wants Peace, it Must Stop its Military Advances into Shan Ceasefire Territories

Shan Community Based Organisations (CBOs) are gravely concerned at the current offensive by Naypyidaw troops against Shan ceasefire territories in four townships of central Shan State, which has displaced over 1,500 villagers so far […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Shan Community Based Organisations  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement by John Kirby, Spokesperson: Singing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in Burma

The United States commends all sides for their ongoing efforts to bring an end to the longest running civil conflict in the world. The signing of the text of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement ( NCA) by the government and eight ethnic armed groups is a critical first step in a long process of building a sustainable and just peace in Burma. We recognize that some groups were not able to sign today, and we understand and respect their concerns. We welcome their commitment to continue discussions within their communities and with the government about the necessary conditions for signing at a future date, and we urge the government to engage constructively in a dialogue with these groups to pursue a more inclusive peace […]

October 15, 2015  •  By US Department of State  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the Ethnic Armed Organizations

This Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, between the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the Ethnic Armed Organizations, recognizes, reinforces, and reaffirms all previous agreements between the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the Ethnic Armed Organizations. This agreement also aims to secure an enduring peace based on the principles of dignity and justice, through an inclusive political dialogue process involving all relevant stakeholders […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Ethnic Armed Organizations and Union Peace Working Committee  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤