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Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’ (685 found)

Open Letter of Concern for the Safety and Security Of Migrant Workers in Thailand

To: The Honorable Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva

We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned for the safety of over 2 million migrants from Burma, Cambodia and Laos working in Thailand who may face deportation after 28th February 2010. Over 80% of these migrants originate from Burma and face ethnic and political conflict as well as continuing economic deterioration in their homeland, which is controlled by a military government. […]

February 16, 2010  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Impunity Prolonged: Burma and its 2008 Constitution

Civil society and international organizations should meanwhile develop a coordinated approach for gathering information about human rights violations in Burma, to help prepare for eventual prosecutions and other measures dealing with the military government’s long legacy of impunity. […]

October 8, 2009  •  By International Center for Transitional Justice  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

လက္ဖက္ဖ်က္ပိုး – စစ္အုပ္စုကိုင္တြယ္ေသာလက္ဖက္ျပႆနာေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနေသာ လက္ဖက္ေတာင္သူမ်ား

ဤ စာမ်က္ႏွာ ၂၂ မ်က္နွာပါ လက္ဖက္ဖ်က္ပိုး – စစ္အုပ္စုကိုင္တြယ္ေသာ လက္ဖက္ျပႆနာေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနေသာ လက္ဖက္ေတာင္သူမ်ား အစီရင္ခံစာကို တေအာင္း (ပေလာင္) လုပ္ငန္းအဖြဲ႕ မွထုတ္ျပန္ျပီး စစ္အစိုးရအာဏာပိုင္မ်ား တဘက္သက္ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ား၊ အေရးယူမႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ နစ္နာဆံုးရႈံးမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ဒုကၡျပႆနာအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး ၾကံဳေတြ႕ခဲ့ရေသာ လက္ဖက္ျဖင့္ […]

July 1, 2009  •  By Taang Palaung Working Group  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Abuse, Poverty and Migration: Investigating Migrants’ Motivations to Leave Home in Burma

This report analyses the root causes of large-scale migration by Burmese workers that find employment in Thailand and other countries in the region. Identifying these root causes has important implications for the assistance and protection of these migrants […]

June 10, 2009  •  By Karen Human Rights Group  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

No More Denial: Children Affected by Armed Conflict in Myanmar (Burma)

This report of Watchlist focuses on the impact of armed conflict on children and violations against children on armed conflicts in Burma. Information presented in the report is based on secondary sources available in the public and […]

May 1, 2009  •  By The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤