Myanmar’s Peace Process: A Nationwide Ceasefire Remains Elusive

After more than six decades of internal armed conflict, the next four weeks could be decisive for Myanmar’s peace process. The process, which was launched in August 2011, enjoyed significant initial success, as bilateral ceasefires were agreed with more than a dozen ethnic armed groups […]

The UEC Must Review Discriminatory Candidate Rejections

On 20 August, the Union Election Commission (UEC) announced the preliminary candidate lists for the upcoming 8 November General Election. So far, 5,866 candidates have been nominated from 93 political parties across the country, with both the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the National League for Democracy (NLD) each fielding over 1,000 candidates […]

Ethnic Politics and the 2015 Elections in Myanmar

Myanmar/Burma is heading to the polls in November 2015, in what will be
a closely watched election. Provided that they are free and fair, the polls
are likely to have a major influence over the future political direction of the
country, with an expected shift in power from the old elite to the opposition
National League for Democracy (NLD) […]

(၂၇) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ရွစ္ေလးလုံးဒီမုိကေရစီ အေရးေတာ္ပုံေန႔ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္လ (၈)ရက္ေန႔သည္ ရဟန္းရွင္လူေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ားႏွင့္လူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံ ျပည္သူတရပ္လုံး၏စြမ္းပကားျဖင့္ တစ္ပါတီအာဏာရွင္စနစ္ကုိ စတင္တြန္းလွန္ျဖိဳဖ်က္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည့္ (၂၇)ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ သမုိင္း၀င္ေန႔ထူးေန႔ျမတ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ရွစ္ေလးလုံးဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးေတာ္ပုံကာလမွ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္တိုက္ပြဲအတြင္း အသက္၊ ေသြး၊ ေခြ်းတုိ႔ေပးဆပ္ကာ တုိက္ပဲြ၀င္ရင္း က်ဆုံးသြားေသာ အာဇာနည္ရဟန္းရွင္လူေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံျပည္သူတရပ္လုံးႏွင့္ မတရားဖမ္းဆီးခံေနရသည့္ အာဇာနည္သူရဲေကာင္းအေပါင္းတုိ႔ကုိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္ကြန္ဂရက္ (SYCB) မွဦးညြတ္ဂုဏ္ျပဳအပ္ပါသည္ […]

Myanmar: Stalled reforms: impunity, discrimination and ongoing human rights abuses: Amnesty International Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review, November 2015

This report was originally prepared as a submission for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Myanmar due to take place in November 2015 […]

Jailed for Calling Themselves Rohingya

Burma Campaign UK today urged the High Representative of the European External Action Service, Federica Mogherini, to take action to free Rohingya community leaders, Ba Thar, Kyaw Khin, Kyaw Myint and Hla Myint, and to pressure the military-backed government in Burma to reform the Prisoners of Conscience Affairs Committee […]

An Interfaith and Peace Activist has been Arrested

A Burmese Muslim activist, Zaw Zaw Latt, who has been working tirelessly for interfaith peace building in Burma, has been arrested.

Zaw Zaw Latt was arrested at 8 pm, on 14th July in Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. He was arrested in a café by police officer U Soe Naing, who arrested him without an arrest warrant. Zaw Zaw Latt is charged under section 17/1 of the penal code for unlawful association with a blacklisted organisation […]

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, Concludes Her First Visit to Myanmar

The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui, concluded a five-day visit to Myanmar today. Her first visit to the country, at the invitation of the Government, aimed to assess the impact of the conflict on children in accordance with United Nations Security Council resolution 1612, focusing in particular on the implementation of the Joint Action Plan (JAP) signed in 2012 by the Government and the Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children by the armed forces of Myanmar (Tatmadaw). The SRSG visited Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon, Mandalay and Myitkyina (Kachin state) […]

Free and Fair Elections for Whom?

Last week, Burma’s Union Election Commission (UEC) declared that the General Elections would be set for 8 November of this year. Having previously boycotted the 2010 election on the grounds the election rules were unfair, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) has agreed to contest the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), who currently holds power […]

MPs Urge Ban Ki-Moon to Negotiate Humanitarian Access to Rakhine State, Burma

Over 50 MPs in the British Parliament have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) (a kind of Parliamentary petition) calling on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to personally lead negotiations for humanitarian access to Rakhine State, Burma. The MPs also call on the British Government to put pressure on the Burmese government to address the root causes of why the Rohingya are fleeing the country […]