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Posts Tagged ‘Forum for Democracy in Burma’ (15 found)

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဒီမုိကရက္တစ္အင္အားစု၏ ႏွစ္သစ္မဂၤလာႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္ ႏွင့္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆုိင္ရာ အဆုိျပဳခ်က္

၁။ ျမန္မာတုိ႔၏ ႏွစ္သစ္ကူးအခါသမယတြင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္းမွီတင္းေနထုိင္ၾကေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံႏွင့္ အေၾကာင္းအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေၾကာင့္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာတြင္ ေရာက္ရွိေနၾကေသာ ႏိုင္ငံသူႏုိင္ငံသားအားလုံး ကုိယ္စိတ္ႏွစ္ျဖာက်န္းမာခ်မ္းသာၾကပါေစေၾကာင္း ဆုေတာင္းေမတၲမ်ား ပုိ႔သလုိက္ပါသည္ […]

April 17, 2016  •  By Forum for Democracy in Burma  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

CSOs Forum Statement on Upcoming Multi-party General Elections

Myanmar will hold general elections on November 8, 2015, the first multi-party elections in 25 years since the result of 1990 general elections, held after the 8.8.88 democracy uprising, was rejected […]

October 18, 2015  •  By Civil Society Organizations Forum  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Open Letter to President U Thein Sein on the Arbitrary Arrest, Incommunicado Detention and Unfair Trial of Human Rights Defenders and Peaceful Protesters

Your Excellency,

Burma Partnership, a regional democracy and human rights advocacy network, and Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma, a political prisoner monitoring and advocacy group, along with the human rights organizations endorsing this letter, wish to draw your attention to the arbitrary arrest, prolonged incommunicado detention, and unfair trial of human rights defenders and peaceful protesters, most recently in Salingyi Township, Sagaing Region […]

June 17, 2013  •  By Altsean-Burma, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Democracy (Forum-Asia), Assistance Association for Political Prisoners - Burma, Burma Partnership, Forum for Democracy in Burma, Human Rights Education Institute of Burma and Students and Youth Congress of Burma  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

US Suspends Economic Sanctions Without Meeting Human Rights Benchmarks

The economic sanctions of the US on Burma were originally adopted because of the disregard for democratic principles and grave human right violations committed by the Burmese government. These violations continue but the pressure for the Burmese government to stop them is now removed […]

May 22, 2012  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Urgent Reforms Are the Real litmus Test of Government’s Commitment to Change

In the lead-up to the by-elections on 1 April, which are already marred by irregularities and censorship [1], rights groups have stressed that key benchmarks have not yet been met. The international community must press for urgent steps to meet these benchmarks […]

April 1, 2012  •  By International Federation for Human Rights, Forum-Asia, Altsean Burma and Forum for Democracy in Burma  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

The Spirit of 8888 Continues to Intensify: Joint Statement on the 23rd Anniversary of Burma’s 8888 People’s Uprising

Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the 1988 people’s uprising in Burma in which individuals from all walks of life throughout the country stood up and dared to speak out against the ruthless military regime. On this day in 1988, as many as 3,000 lives were lost when the regime responded

ယေန႔သည္ ျမန္မာတျပည္လံုးရွိ ျပည္သူမ်ားမွ လွည္းေနေလွေအာင္း ျမင္းေဇာင္းမက်န္ ရက္စက္ယုတ္ မာေသာ စစ္အုပ္စုအား ရဲရဲရင့္ရင့္ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား ရင္ဆိုင္၍၎တို႔၏ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ စတင္ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့သည့္ ၈ ေလးလံုးလူထုအေရးေတာ္ပံု ၂၃ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ေန႔ျဖစ္ သည္။ ထိုအေရးေတာ္ပံုတြင္ စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ရက္စက္စြာ ဖိႏွိပ္ျဖိဳခြဲမႈေၾကာင့္ ဆႏၵျပသူ ၃၀၀၀ ခန္႔က်ဆံုးခဲ့ ၾကရကာ ထိုသူမ်ား၏ျပင္းျပေသာ […]

August 8, 2011  •  By Assistance Association for Political Prisoners - Burma, Forum for Democracy in Burma, Nationalities Youth Forum, and Students and Youth Congress of Burma  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Invitation: Commemoration in Bangkok of the 23rd Anniversary of the 1988 Nationwide Pro-Democracy Uprising in Burma

The Forum for Democracy in Burma, Student and Youth Congress of Burma, Nationalities Youth Forum, Assistance Association of Political Prisoners – Burma, Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma and Burma Partnership would like to invite you to join our commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the nationwide pro-democracy uprising in 1988.

The event will include a panel discussion entitled “23 Years of Resistance: Ongoing Human Rights Abuses and the Urgent Need for a Commission of Inquiry.” Speakers will recall experiences of the 1988 uprising, share details about the current human rights abuses and armed conflict in […]

August 4, 2011  •  By Forum for Democracy in Burma, Student and Youth Congress of Burma, Nationalities Youth Forum, Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma, Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma and Burma Partnership  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

The Handover that Wasn’t: Burma’s Military Regime Transfers Power Back to Itself

On 30 March, Senior-General Than Shwe officially dissolved the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to make way for the new Union Government, but the formal handover of power from the SPDC to the current military-dominated government appears to […]

April 4, 2011  •  By Forum for Democracy in Burma  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

မတရားဆံုး မတရားမႈမ်ား – ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ

၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ မသမာမႈမ်ားကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္ဖြင့္ခ် စုစည္းတင္ျပထားေသာ အစီရင္ခံစာတေစာင္ကို “မတရားဆံုး မတရားမႈမ်ား” အမည္ျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္အင္အားစုမ်ားမွ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇန္နဝါရီလ၊ ၃၁ ရက္ ေန႕စြဲျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္သည္။
ထို႕အျပင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတခု၏ လြတ္လပ္မႈႏွင့္ တရားမွ်တမႈ ရွိမရွိကို တိုင္းတာသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာစံႏႈန္း (၁၆) ခ်က္ကို ဤအစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားျပီး နအဖစစ္အစိုးရမွ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသည္ ၎စံႏႈန္းမ်ားအနက္ တခ်က္ႏွင့္မွ် မကိုက္ညီေၾကာင္း ေထာက္ျပထားပါသည္။ ထိုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ ရလဒ္ျဖစ္သည့္ ယေန႕ေခၚယူေနေသာ လႊတ္ေတာ္မ်ားမွာလည္း တိုင္းျပည္၏ လက္ရွိအၾကပ္အတည္းမ်ားကို ေျဖရွင္းေပးႏိုင္မည့္ အေျခအေန လံုးဝကင္းမဲ့ေနေၾကာင္းကို အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားျဖင့္ ေထာက္ျပထားပါသည္ […]

January 31, 2011  •  By Forum for Democracy in Burma  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤