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APRRN Statement on Protection at Sea
With the imminent commencement of the ‘sailing season’, more refugees and migrants are expected to depart on perilous journeys from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Over the past few years, the world has witnessed the suffering and violence that people on these journeys have endured at the hands of smugglers and traffickers […]
• • •မြန္ ျပည္မြန္ ျပည္သစ္ပါတီ၏အားလုံးပါ၀င္သည့္တနိင္ငံ လုံးအပစ္အခတ္ရပ္ စဲေရး ရပ္ တည္ခ်က္အေပၚ သေဘာထားထု တ္ ျပန္ခ်က္
မြန္ျပည္သစ္ပါတီ၏အားလုံးပါ၀င္သည့္တနုိင္ငံလုံးအပစ္ရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူညီမွဳ လက္မွတ္ထုိးေရး ရပ္တည္ခ်က္ကုိ က်နပ္တ နုိင္ငံတကာေရာက္မြန္အမ်ဳိးသားမ်ားက ေထာင္စုုျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ေရးဒုဥကၠဌဦးေအာင္မင္းသည္ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၂၅-ရက္ မြန္ျပည္နယ္သံျဖုဇရပ္ျမုိ႔တြင္မြန္ျပည္သစ္ပါတီဥကၠဌနိင္ေထာ္မြန္နွင့္ေတြ႔ဆုံျပီး တနုိင္ငံလုံး အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးစာခ်ဳပ္ လက္မွတ္ထုိးရန္ တုိက္တြန္းခဲ့ပါသည၊္သုိ႔ရာတြင္ မြန္ျပည္သစ္ပါတီက စာခ်ဳပ္လက္ မွတ္ထုိးေရးသည္ ၄င္း၏အားလုံးပါ၀င္ေရးမူအေပၚတြင္ စြဲျမဲစြာ ရပ္တည္ခဲ့ပါသည္[…]
• • •Statement on New Mon State Party’s Stand on the All-Inclusive Policy
We, Mon communities in overseas, strongly support the New Mon State Party (NMSP) on its all-inclusive policy in signing the Nationwide Cease-fire Agreement (NCA) […]
• • •President Thein Sein must be Challenged for Failure to Seek Justice in Kawng Hka Rape-Murder Case
As President Thein Sein takes the spotlight at the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement this week, KWAT urges that he be challenged for his failure to seek justice in the case of the rape-murder of the two Kachin teachers last January […]
• • •Crackdown at Letpadan: Excessive Use of Force and Violations of the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Expression in Letpadan, Bago Region, Myanmar
On March 10, 2015, following a weeklong standoff in the town of Letpadan in Myanmar’sBago Region, police officers violently cracked down on a group of approximately 200 protesters demonstrating against the recently passed National Education Law […]
Myanmar: Hold police Accountable for Crackdown at Letpadan, Free Wrongfully Imprisoned Protesters
(YANGON—October 10, 2015) Myanmar police officers used excessive force during a crackdown on protesters and arrested more than 100 individuals in Letpadan, Bago Region in March, according to a new report released today by Fortify Rights and the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic (“the Clinic”). Authorities should release individuals wrongfully detained for exercising their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, the organizations said […]
• • •Elections for Ethnic Equality? A Snapshot of Ethnic Perspectives on the 2015 Elections
In the context of the 2015 elections, the report “Elections for Ethnic Equality? A Snapshot of Ethnic Perspectives on the 2015 Elections” aims to provide a summary of what these elections mean and how the elections are perceived in ethnic nationality areas of Burma. Given that up to 40% of the population of Burma are not ethnically Burman, it is vital to present the perspectives and attitudes, as well as the political situation, in these ethnic areas in the run up to this much anticipated event […]
Institutional and Structural Governance Reforms Must Go Hand-in-hand With the 2015 Elections to Achieve Ethnic Equality
[Rangoon – 9 October 2015] As Burma prepares for the much anticipated 2015 elections, what must not be forgotten is the much needed fundamental, structural and institutional reforms of governance to address the concerns, and political aspirations of ethnic communities, Burma Partnership said in a report released today[…]
• • •Kawthoolei Armed Forces Disagrees about the NCA Signing
KAF disagrees with the 3 Karen groups, KNU, DKBA, and KNU/KNLA PC as representing ALL Karen when signing the NCA with the Burmese with their intent to destroy historical evidence of our freedom. Also, misleading and creating confusion among all the Ethnics against their wishes of their own freedom, for the following reasons […]
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