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‘Going back to the old ways’: A new generation of prisoners of conscience in Myanmar
A new Amnesty International briefing – ‘Back to the old ways’ – exposes how repression has drastically picked up pace over the past two years, in stark contrast to official claims that not a single person is imprisoned for peacefully exercising their rights […]
Myanmar: Almost 100 Prisoners of Conscience Behind Bars Ahead of Elections Following Intensifying Repression
Myanmar’s authorities have been locking up and harassing scores of peaceful activists as part of an intensifying and far-reaching crackdown ahead of November’s elections, Amnesty International said as it launched a new campaign to free prisoners of conscience today […]
• • •UNFC Statement on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement and In-Country Peace Building
၁။ ျမန္မာျပည္၏ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း(၇၀)နီးပါး ျဖစ္ပြားေနေသာျပည္တြင္းစစ္သည္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအေျခခံ (သုိ႔တည္းမဟုတ္) ဖြဲ႔စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ ျပႆနာအေၾကာင္းရင္းခံေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထုိအေျခခံျပႆနာကုိ ႏုိင္ငံေရးနည္းျဖင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ေျဖရွင္းရန္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးေပါင္းစုံမွ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္ႀကဳိးပမ္းခဲ့ၾကသည္။ သုိ႔ရာတြင္ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္အုပ္စုိးသူမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ သေဘာထား ေစတနာမမွန္ကန္၍ ယေန႔ထိတုိင္ ကမၻာ့အရွည္ၾကာဆုံး ေသာျပည္တြင္းစစ္မ်ား ဆက္လက္ျဖစ္ေပၚေနရသည္ […]
• • •Media Advisory – Report Release on Paunglaung Dam
YANGON – A Press Conference will be held from 2 to 4 PM at House of Memories (U Wisara road, east side, between Dhamma Zedi Road and Myaynigone junction) to release the report “Forced Displacements and Destroyed Lives around Upper Paunglaung Dam in Shan State, Myanmar,” by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Land in Our Hands (LIOH) and Kayan New generation Youth (KNGY) […]
• • •Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review: Myanmar
This report was originally submitted by Fortify Rights to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on March 21, 2015 for consideration in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Myanmar’s human rights performance, which will take place November 9 at the U.N. Human Rights Council […]
Myanmar: End International Crimes, Hold Perpetrators Accountable
(GENEVA)—The government of Myanmar should commit to concrete actions to end and remedy ongoing abuses during its upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Fortify Rights said today. Fortify Rights today published its formal submission to the United Nations on Myanmar’s human rights record, documenting four years of abuses. The […]
• • •EU deploys Election Observation Mission to Myanmar
In response to an invitation by the Union Election Commission (UEC), the European Union has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Myanmar to observe the general elections scheduled for 8 November 2015. This is the first time that the European Union is observing elections in Myanmar. The Mission underscores the EU’s support for Myanmar’s democratic transition and its commitment to supporting credible, transparent and inclusive elections in the country […]
• • •Dispatches: Militias and Electoral Intimidation in Burma
With a little more than a month to go before Burma’s national elections, military aligned militia units are casting a dark shadow over the polls. These proxies, known as Pyithu Sit (People’s Militias) and Neh San Tat (Border Guard Forces) are intimidating voters in Burma’s ethnic-minority borderlands and are stopping candidates from campaigning. This exacerbates the problems in some regions, where ongoing fighting between government forces and ethnic armed groups will prevent voting from taking place […]
• • •UEC U-Turn on Select Few Candidates Fails to Address Election Credibility Gap in Myanmar
JAKARTA, 28 September 2015 – Parliamentarians from across Southeast Asia today welcomed the decision of Myanmar’s Union Election Commission (UEC) to reinstate the candidacies of 11 previously disqualified Muslim politicians, but said the reversal was far from enough to recover international confidence in the upcoming general election […]
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