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Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’ (685 found)

ကမာၻ႔ဒီမိုကေရစီ လူငယ္မ်ားေန႔အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

ယေန႔သည္ ကမာၻ႔ဒီမိုကေရစီလူငယ္မ်ားေန႔ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္ မ်ား၏ ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ အေတြးအေခၚပိုင္းဆုိင္ရာဗဟုသုတမ်ား၊ လူငယ္အစုအဖြဲ႔မ်ား အခ်င္းခ်င္း ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္မႈမ်ားကို တုိးျမင့္လာေစရန္ႏွင့္ ခက္ခဲေသာ နိုင္ငံေရး အေျခအေနမ်ားကို ရင္ဆိုင္ေျဖရွင္းၿပီး တိုးတက္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးလာေစရန္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ စုစည္း ညီညြတ္မႈ ကြန္ယက္မ်ားမွ ေပၚေပါက္လာရျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္[…]

October 18, 2015  •  By Students and Youth Congress of 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 ➤

AAPP Demand the Release of Social Media Activists

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) call for the immediate and unconditional release of Patrick Kum Jaa Lee and Chaw Sandi Tun who have been arrested and detained for mocking the Military on Facebook […]

October 17, 2015  •  By Assistance Association for Political Prisoners  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

၂၀၁၅ အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ရခုိင္ျပည္လုံးဆုိင္ရာေက်ာင္းသားႏွင့္လူငယ္မ်ားအစည္းအ႐ုံး (AASYC) မွ ထုုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

(၁၉၆၂)ခုႏွစ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေန၀င္း အာဏာသိမ္းလိုက္ခ်ိန္မွ (၂၀၁၀)ခုႏွစ္ထိ ျမန္မာျပည္သူလူထုအေနျဖင့္ မိမိတို႔၏ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူအစိုးရအား လြတ္လပ္စြာ ေ႐ြးေကာက္တင္ေျမွာက္ခြင့္မရခဲ့ၾကေပ […]

October 17, 2015  •  By All Arakan Students' and Youths' Congress  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Human Rights Watch: Activists Charged for Mocking Military Online

(New York) – Burmese authorities should immediately release two people arrested this week for posting images on social media mocking the military, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrests took place in the run-up to the November 8, 2015 elections, with the military firmly in charge behind the scenes […]

October 17, 2015  •  By Human Rights Watch  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ASEAN parliamentarians warn of looming regional crisis resulting from systematic discrimination in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

BANGKOK, 16 October 2015 – Increasingly marginalized and desperate, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State are being forced to flee in ever-greater numbers, exacerbating a regional crisis that ASEAN leaders are woefully ill prepared to cope with, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) warned today […]

October 16, 2015  •  By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Vice Chair Crowley Extremely Concerned About Burmese Government’s Arrest of Peaceful Activists

(Queens, NY) – Today, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus and a leader in the House of Representatives on Burma, released the following statement in response to the Burmese government’s arrest and charging of two peaceful activists for peacefully exercising their freedom of speech […]

October 16, 2015  •  By US Congressman Joseph Crowley  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Disenfranchisement and Desperation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State: Drivers of a Regional Crisis

Rakhine statePolitical exclusion is exacerbating the already intense sense of desperation among Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and driving a regional crisis that ASEAN leaders are ill prepared to confront. Unless serious steps are taken to address the situation of deprivation and despair in Rakhine State, many Rohingya will have no other option but to flee in search of asylum elsewhere […]

October 16, 2015  •  By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤