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Posts Tagged ‘ASEAN’ (637 found)

Statement of Kachin Democratic Party Related with Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement

က်ြ ႏ္ုပ္တုိ႔ ကခ်င္ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ပါတီသည္ တႏိုင္ငံလုံးဆုိင္ရာ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး သေဘာတူ စာခ်ဳပ္ (Nation-wide Ceasefire Agreement, NCA) အေပၚ ေအာက္ပါအတုိင္း သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ကုိ ထုတ္ျပန္လုိက္သည္ […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Kachin Democratic Party  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement Attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Myanmar

The Secretary-General welcomes the signing today in Nay Pyi Taw of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement by the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Myanmar Defence forces and several Ethnic Armed Organizations. This marks an important step in advancing national reconciliation and consolidating the reform process in the country […]

October 15, 2015  •  By United Nations  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement No.(13/2015) Myanmar National Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and eight Ethnics Armed Organizations

Myanmar National Human Rights Commission would like to commend and put on record the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and eight Ethnic Armed Organizations on 15th November 2015 in Nay Pyi Taw as a historic and monumental event of the State […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Myanmar National Human Rights Commission  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burma: International Religious Freedom Report for 2014

Muslim, Christian, and other religious minorities faced physical abuse, arbitrary arrest and detention, restrictions on religious practice and travel, and discrimination in employment and access to citizenship […]

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

Myanmar: Immediately Release Two People Detained for Mocking Army on Facebook

Myanmar’s authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a peace activist and a young woman who have been arrested for mocking the country’s army chief on Facebook, Amnesty International said […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Amnesty International  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

NCA လက္မွတ္ထုိးျခင္းအေပၚ International Karen Organisation သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

(၁) ေအာက္တုိဘာလ (၁၅) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ NCA လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးပဲြအခန္းအနားတစ္ရပ္ကုိ ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ျပဳလုပ္ႏုိင္ျခင္းသည္ ဦးသိန္းစိန္အစုိးရမွ တုိင္းရင္းသား စည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ေရးကုိ ျဖိဳခဲြျခင္း၏ ထင္းရွားေသာ သာဓကတခုျဖစ္သည္ […]

October 14, 2015  •  By International Karen Organisation  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ႏိုင္ဟံသာ။ ျမန္မာျပည္ ေအးခ်မ္းတည္ၿငိမ္တိုးတက္ေစမည့္နည္းလမ္း

ျမန္မာျပည္သည္ ေရခဲျပင္ႏွင့္လည္းေကာင္း၊ သဲကႏၱာရႏွင့္လည္းေကာင္း ေဝးကြာေသာေနရာ တြင္ တည္ရွိၿပီး ပူေႏြးစြပ္စုိုေသာရာသီဥတု ရွိသည္။ မိုးေရကိုလုံေလာက္စြာရရွိ၍ အပင္မ်ဳိးစုံျဖစ္ထြန္းေသာ ရာသီဥတုလည္းရွိသည္။ ေျမၾသဇာေကာင္းမြန္ၿပီး သီးႏွံမ်ဳိးစုံကိုစိုက္ပ်ဳိးႏုိင္ေသာ အနိမ့္ပိုင္းလယ္ေျမ ကုန္းေျမ ျပန္႔ ႏွင့္ အျမင့္ပိုင္းေတာင္ေပၚဆင္ေျခေလ်ွာေျမမ်ဳိးစုံ ရွိသည္။ သဘာဝသယံဇာတတြင္ သစ္ေတာ ဝါးေတာ လ်ွပ္စစ္ဓါတ္အားထုတ္လုပ္နိုုင္ေသာေတာင္က်စမ္းေရ ႏွင့္ ျမစ္ေခ်ုာင္းမ်ားစြာ ရွိသည္ […]

October 14, 2015  •  By United Nationalities Federal Council  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar: Drop Charges Against Human Rights Lawyer Khin Khin Kyaw

(YANGON – October 14, 2015) The Government of Myanmar should immediately drop all charges against human rights lawyer Khin Khin Kyaw, Fortify Rights and Justice Trust said today. Khin Khin Kyaw faces up to six months in prison, fines, and revocation of her legal license for allegedly disrupting a courtroom after she filed a legal motion seeking to hold high-ranking police officials responsible for the violent crackdown against protesters in Letpadan in Myanmar’s Bago Region on March 10, 2015 […]

October 14, 2015  •  By Fortify Rights and Justice Trust  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Ethnic Aspirations Not Exclusively Tied to the 2015 Elections

Election for Ethnic Equality CoverOn Friday 9 October, 2015, Burma Partnership released the report Elections for Ethnic Equality? A Snapshot of Ethnic Perspectives on the 2015 Elections at the Royal Rose Restaurant, Rangoon. The report highlights the need for institutional and structural reforms of governance to be implemented that reduce the power of the Burma Army and devolve power to Region and State Parliaments as a priority for ethnic communities. Otherwise, elections will not be able to make substantive changes to the communities’ lives […]

October 13, 2015  •  By Burma Partnership  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement by the Women’s League of Burma A non-inclusive Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement will not Bring Peace

The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) is gravely concerned that the government’s planned signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on October 15 with only eight armed groups will not lead to peace, but to an escalation of conflict […]

October 13, 2015  •  By Women's League of Burma  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤