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Posts Tagged ‘Crimes against humanity’ (225 found)

A New Briefing by Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK: No Hope For Rohingya From Burma Election

When the people of Burma go to the polling stations on November 8th, for the first time since independence the majority of Rohingya will not be allowed to vote. In another first, as all Rohingya candidates for the national parliament were rejected by the Union Election Commission (UEC), there will be no Rohingya MPs in Parliament […]

November 4, 2015  •  By Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

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 […]

November 3, 2015  •  By Burma Campaign UK  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Naypyidaw’s escalated offensive in central Shan State displaces over 6,000; four civilians injured by indiscriminate shelling and shooting

Burma Army attack sspc-ssa Oct 2015_Eng III3The SHRF strongly condemns the escalated attacks in the past week by the Burma Army against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in central Shan State, involving indiscriminate shelling and shooting of civilians. The attacks have caused displacement of over 6,000 civilians from 22 villages in three townships since early October […]

November 3, 2015  •  By Shan Human Rights Foundation  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Political Parties Neglect Human Rights Priorities

(Rangoon) Political parties contesting the 8 November election have failed to prioritize or commit to core human rights issues, a new report released by FIDH today shows. The report, titled “Half Empty: Burma’s political parties and their human rights commitments,” is the first-ever survey of the country’s political parties’ attitudes toward human rights issues […]

November 3, 2015  •  By International Federation for Human Rights  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Half Empty: Burma’s Political Parties and their Human Rights Commitments

Half empty report by FIDH On 8 November 2015, Burma’s electorate will vote for the representatives who will sit in Parliament from 201b to 2021. The polls are anticipated to usher in a Parliament that will be markedly different from the body that was installed as a result of the November 2010 election and the April 2012 by–elections […]

November 3, 2015  •  By International Federation for Human Rights  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: တရားမႈရွာဘုိ႔ ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးျခင္းမွာ၊ တရားမႈကိုျငင္းပယ္ျခင္းပါ။

Kachinျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ေနာက္ပုိငး္မွစတင္၍ ျဖစ္ေပၚလွ်က္ရွိေသာ ဒီမုိကေရစီအသြင္ကူး ေျပာင္းမႈဟူသည့္ေအာက္ ၌ႏုိင္ငံေရးအာဏာ၏ အခန္းက႑အားပို၍ အေလးထားလာၾကသည္းအေဘာရွိသည္ […]

November 3, 2015  •  By Legal Aid Network  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

လြဳိင္လင္ခရုိင္ ေက်းသီးျမိဳ႔နယ္ မုိင္းေနာင္ျမိဳ႔အနီး ၀ိန္းေကာင္ေက်းရြာရွိ တပ္မေတာ္တပ္ရင္းဠာနခ်ဳပ္သုိ႔ အက္စ္အက္စ္ေအ(၀မ္ဟုိင္း)အဖဲြ႔က ထပ္မံလာေရာက္တုိက္ခုိက္သည္ ဟုဆုိေသာ ျမ၀တီသတင္းဠာနႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

၁။ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္(ေတာင္ပုိင္း) လြဳိင္လင္ခရုိင္ ေက်းသီးျမိဳ႔နယ္ မိုင္းေနာင္ျမိဳ႔အနီး ၀ိန္းေကာင္ေက်းရြာရွိ တပ္မေတာ္တပ္ရင္းဠာနခ်ဳပ္သုိ႔ အက္စ္အက္စ္ေအ(၀မ္ဟုိင္း) အဖဲြ႔အင္အား ၂၀၀ ခန္႔က လက္နက္ၾကီး/လက္နက္ငယ္မ်ားျဖင့္ ေအာက္တုိဘာလ(၂၉) ရက္ ညေန(၅)နာရီတြင္တစ္ၾကိမ္၊ ည(၈) နာရီတြင္တစ္ၾကိမ္၊ ည(၁၂)နာရီတြင္တစ္ၾကိမ္၊ ေပါင္း(၃)ၾကိမ္ႏွင့္ ေအာက္တုိဘာလ(၃၀) ရက္ နံနက္(၄)နာရီ မိနစ္(၂၀)တြင္တစ္ၾကိ္မ္၊ နံနက္(၅) နာရီတြင္တြင္တစ္ၾကိမ္၊ ေပါင္း(၂)ၾကိမ္၊ စုစုေပါင္း(၅)ၾကိမ္ ေႏွင့္ယွက္ပစ္ခတ္ခဲ့သည္ ဟု ျမ၀တီသတ္ငးဠာနမွ ႏိုင္၀င္ဘာလ(၁)ရက္ေန႔စဲြျဖင့္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါသည္ […]

November 2, 2015  •  By Shan State Progress Party  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Unhealed Wounds: ကုထုံးမဲ့လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအနာမ်ား?

ယခု အစီစဥ္ခံစာသည္ ၂၀၁၁-၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္ ႏွင့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္အဖဲြ႔မ်ား အၾကားျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေသာ ပဠိပကၡမ်ားေၾကာင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဆုံးရႈံးမႈမ်ားကို ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အေျခစိုက္ United Rights Group ( URG) မွ မွတ္တမ္းျပဳစုေရးသားထားျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ဤအစီရင္ခံစာသည္ ေျမယာသိမ္းဆည္းမႈ စေသာလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈမ်ား ပါ၀င္မႈ မရွိပါ […]

November 2, 2015  •  By United Rights Group  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement on Current Government’s Election and the Fighting in Ethnic Regions

We the people do not believe the election that is being held on the 8th November 2015 will be peaceful and without trouble. This election should be held without any threat of violence. We need to have a free and fair election […]

November 1, 2015  •  By Arakan National Network  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

We Used to Fear Bullets Now We Fear Bulldozers

In Yangon today, three Dawei-based civil society organizations launched a new report, based on more than two years of research and community-engagement, condemning the destructive coal mine at Ban Chaung […]

October 30, 2015  •  By Dawei Development Association, Tenasserim River & Indigenous People Networks and Tarkapaw Youth Group  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤