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Freedom of Expression, Religion and Belief: As Freedom of Expression Shrinks, Discrimination is on the Rise
In the lead-up to the 2015 elections in Burma, religious minorities, especially the Muslim population, have been consistently subjected to state sponsored discrimination and violent abuse, while simultaneously denied representation in the political sphere or in civil society […]
• • •၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ႏွင့္ တႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈ ရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ လက္မွတ္မေရးထိုးမွီ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားလႊတ္ေပးရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း
မိမိတို႔ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအသင္းႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ားအဖြဲ႔တို႔သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားအေရးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ျ ခင္း၊ အခြင့္ အေရးမ်ားမွန္ကန္စြာရရွိေရးႏွင့္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတို႔အတြက္ အစဥ္တစိုက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္လွ်က္ရွိပါသည္ […]
• • •Opening the Box: Women’s Experiences of War, Peace, and Impunity in Myanmar
This booklet captures the stories of 29 women from Myanmar former political prisoners from Yangon, and ethnic women from the conflict zones of Karen and Kachin State.
Opening the Box: Women’s Experiences of War, Peace, and Impunity in Myanmar
On September 23, 2015, Asia Justice And Rights (AJAR) is launching its report “Opening the Box: Women’s Experiences of War, Peace, and Impunity in Myanmar”, in collaboration with Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), Karen Women Empowerment Group (KWEG), and Women’s Organizations Network of Myanmar (WON). The report contains the stories of 29 women survivors from Myanmar – former political […]
• • •World Peace Day: Statement by Karen National Union
1. We, the Karen National Union (KNU), warinly welcoine the World Peace Day, which is today. September 21, 2015, in accordance with the 2001 UN General Assembly Resolution (55/282), designating September 21 as the World Peace Day […]
• • •Arakan Rohingya Union Summary Report on Situation in Arakan State, Burma/Myanmar
There is no sign of the Government of Myanmar/Burma backing down from its hostile policies against the Rohingya and other Muslim community in Myanmar […]
• • •Summit of Parliamentarians Concludes with Action Letters and Resolution
NEW YORK, 19 September 2015 – In the face of rising religious persecution of people on the grounds of faith or belief, parliamentarians from almost 50 countries concluded an unprecedented summit discussing ways to advance freedom of religion or belief for all […]
• • •2015 ANNI Report on the Performance and Establishment of National Human Rights Institutions in Asia
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), as the Secretariat of the Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI), is glad to present the 2015 ANNI Report on the Performance and Establishment of National Human Rights Institutions in Asia. Our sincere appreciation goes to all 30 ANNI member organisations from across 17 countries in Asia for their participation and commitment to ANNI and continued advocacy towards the strengthening and establishment of NHRIs in Asia. Similarly, we would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) that have contributed valuable inputs and feedback to the concerned country reports […]
Cash from chaos: The Burgeoning Illicit Trade in Timber from Myanmar to China revealed
BEIJING: The conviction and subsequent pardon of 155 Chinese nationals in July for illegal logging in Myanmar threw a spotlight on how massive volumes of timber stolen from the county’s precious frontier forests have been flowing unhindered into China for decades […]
• • •Organized Chaos: The illicit overland timber trade between Burma and China
The sweep led to the arrest of 155 Chinese nationals who had been recruited from neighbouring Yunnan Province to cross the border to cut trees and transport timber. The case caused diplomatic tensions between Myanmar and China when the Chinese labourers were given life sentences in July. Just a few days later, all were freed under a general presidential pardon […]
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