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Posts Tagged ‘Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement’ (129 found)

100+ CSOs Urge Reconsideration of Representation in Upcoming Peace Conference

More than 100 civil society organizations (CSOs) called for amendments to the framework of the Union Peace Conference, set to begin on January 12, in a statement issued last Tuesday […]

January 7, 2016  •  By Mon News Agency  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement of Civil Society Organizations on the Union Peace Convention to be held on 12th January 2016

Adoption of the framework for political dialogue on 16th December 2015 and announcement of the convening date for Union Peace Convention on 12th January 2016 is an act of negligence of armed conflicts occurring in Northern Shan State and Kachin State […]

January 5, 2016  •  By 126 Civil Society Organizations  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Joint Statement of TWO and TSYU on Human Right Violations in Ta’ang Areas Committed by the Burmese Military Troops and Militias

1. The joint forces of Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 324 , the Myanmar Army, and the Pansay militia fired artillery rounds towards Say Kin village, Namkham Township, Muse District and then entered the village on December 23, 2015 on 10 AM […]

January 5, 2016  •  By Ta'ang Students and Youth Organization and Ta'ang Women's Orgnization  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

UNFC Annual Federal Council Meeting Statement

The UNFC annual federal council meeting was successfully held from December 7 to 10, 2015. The departments submitted their annual activity reports, which were reviewed and adopted. Moreover, the election of new officials for the vacant positions was carried out by secret vote, and decisions relating to future work programs were taken […]

December 12, 2015  •  By United Nationalities Federal Council  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ICTJ Paper Looks at Range of Options for Dealing with Myanmar’s Troubled Past

YANGON, December 9, 2015—With hopes running high after the National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in November, a new paper by the International Center for Transitional Justice calls on the soon-to-be-established Burmese government to seriously consider taking steps to deal with Myanmar’s troubled past as a wayto help end the cycle of violence and human rights violations in the conflict-torn country […]

December 9, 2015  •  By International Center for Transitional Justice  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးထားၾကသည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ ထိပ္သီးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအစည္းအေ၀း – ပထမအႀကိမ္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

၁။ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ (NCA) ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးထားၾက သည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖ႔ြဲအစည္း (EAO) (၈)ဖြဲ႔၏ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔ တစ္ဖြ႔ဲလွ်င္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၃) ဦး၊ ေလ့လာသူ (၂) ဦး၊ EAO ပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးဆိုင္ရာ ပူးတြဲေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရးေကာ္မတီ (EAO JMC) မွ (၃) ဦး၊ EAO ျပည္ေထာင္စုၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဆြးေႏြးမႈ ပူးတြဲေကာ္မတီ (EAO UPDJC) မွ (၁) ဦး ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖ႔ြဲအစည္းမ်ား ညိႇႏိႈင္းေရးအဖြဲ႔ (EAO CT) မွ (၈) ဦး အပါအဝင္ စုစုေပါင္း (၈၇) ဦး တက္ေရာက္ေသာ “တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖ႔ြဲအစည္းမ်ား၏ ထိပ္သီးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအစည္း အေ၀း – ပထမအႀကိမ္”ကုိ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ ႏုိ၀င္ဘာလ (၈) ရက္ေန႔မွ (၁၀) ရက္ေန႔အထိ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ၊ ဇင္းမယ္ၿမိဳ႕၌ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ က်င္းပၿပီးစီးခဲ့ပါသည္ […]

November 10, 2015  •  By Ethnic Armed Organizations  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Time for the Government to Accept the Reality of Human Rights Problems, Take Effective Measures and Move Forward

Today, Burma/Myanmar’s human rights situation was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva. The report of the Myanmar Government’s delegation includes details of government activities to fulfill their commitments from the first UPR cycle but fails to take note serious ongoing human rights violations and challenges into account […]

November 6, 2015  •  By Myanmar UPR Forum  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement on Current Government’s Election and the Fighting in Ethnic Regions

We the people do not believe the election that is being held on the 8th November 2015 will be peaceful and without trouble. This election should be held without any threat of violence. We need to have a free and fair election […]

November 1, 2015  •  By Arakan National Network  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤