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Posts Tagged ‘Ethnic Nationalities’ (218 found)
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[…]
• • •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 […]
• • •ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားတပ္ဦး၏ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခတ္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ (NCA) လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးရန္ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်မွတ္ထားျခင္းအေပၚ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
၁။ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ (NCA) သည္ ၂၀၁၃ ခုႏွစ္မွ စတင္၍ တိုင္းရင္း သားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြ႔ဲအစည္းမ်ား ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရတို႔အၾကား (၂) ႏွစ္နီးပါ ညိႇႏိႈင္းေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္၏ရလဒ္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားတပ္ဦးသည္လည္း ဤသေဘာတူစာ ခ်ဳပ္မူၾကမ္းေရးဆြဲေရးတြင္ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးအပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးဆိုင္ရာညိႇႏိႈင္းေရးအဖ႔ြဲ (NCCT) ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္း သားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြ႕ဲ အစည္းမ်ား၏ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးအပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးဆိုင္ရာ အဆင့္ျမင့္ ညိႇႏိႈင္းေရးကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြ႔ဲ (SD) တို႔၌ ထဲထဲ၀င္၀င္ ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့သည္ […]
• • •Statement on Current Situation and Notification Allowing Political Parties to Resume Election Campaign
1.On 16 September 2015, the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) issued a notification to political parties to suspend their election campaign in some areas under its control because there were armed conflicts going on at the time. Concerning this, the explanation about the current situation is as follows […]
• • •The Burma Army Must Respect a “Free and Fair” Election
A request from the Burma Army to issue army personnel as polling station officers across 15 polling stations within military compounds in Zeyathiri Township has been denied by an election sub-commission in Naypyidaw. The demand from the Burma Army cites security concerns as a primary reason for involvement in the polling stations, though sub-commission officials are well aware that this will raise concerns amongst election observers. According to Burma’s Election Law, polling station officers are to be appointed from positions within the civil service, such as from the education ministry […]
တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖဲ႔ြအစည္းမ်ား၏ ထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေ၀းက်င္းပျခင္း သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
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Statement of 3rd Myanmar Opium Farmer Forum
On 11 and 12 September 2015 opium farmers and representatives of opium farming communities from Kayah State, Shan State, Kachin State and Chin State, came together in Upper Myanmar to discuss the drug policies affecting their lives. Following from the discussions the farmers issued a statement with recommendations to policy makers nationally and internationally […]
• • •Carter Center Issues Statement on Candidate Scrutiny Process and Campaign Environment in Myanmar
ATLANTA — The Carter Center election observation mission has deployed field teams to observe the electoral campaign, which officially started on Sept. 8. The first week of campaigning, as observed by the Center in three states, was peaceful, and parties report being able to conduct their campaign activities without significant difficulty. The Center remains concerned that strict enforcement of campaign regulations, and recently announced limitations on political speech, could have a negative impact on pre-election political space […]
• • •Concerns About Burma’s Candidate Disqualifications
The United States is concerned about the disqualification of approximately 100 candidates for Burma’s upcoming general election, with over half of the cases rejected based on questions of citizenship […]
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