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Myanmar: End Relentless Crackdown on Student Protesters
One year after police violently dispersed largely peaceful student protests in Myanmar, the authorities continue their relentless crackdown on student activists and anyone associated with their movement […]
• • •More Arrests on Trumped Up Charges as Outgoing Government’s Term Approaches End
As Burma prepares for the upcoming annual cross-examination by the UN Human Rights Council on 14 March, 2016, 121 civil society organizations wrote to member and observer states requesting them to maintain the country under Agenda Item 4 (“Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention”) and urged the extension of the Special Rapporteur mandate at this critical juncture in the country […]
AAPP calls for the release of Nilar Thein
On February 24, 2016 Ma Nilar Thein, secretary of Women’s Affairs at the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society, was arrested for her alleged participation in a protest in Rangoon in February 2015 showing unity and support of the students advocating for education reform at Letpadan Township, Bago Division […]
• • •Nilar Thein Back in Jail
Burma Campaign UK today urged the Minister of Home Affairs, Lt Gen Ko Ko, forthe immediate release of Nilar Thein and to reform the Prisoners of Conscience Affairs Committee […]
• • •New Lease of Life in Burma Parliament but Political Prisoners Left Behind
Optimism swept over Burma this past week as hopes for historic changes to the country heightened with the start of the new Parliament dominated by the National League for Democracy (NLD) […]
Myanmar: Release Human Rights Defender U Gambira Immediately and Unconditionally
(Bangkok, 9 February) – Myanmar should immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender and former political prisoner U Gambira, who has been detained on flimsy charges of “illegally entering” the country, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) said today […]
• • •Burma: Election Points Path to Rights Progress
(New York, January 27, 2016) – Burma’s peaceful elections were the high point of a year that saw the overall human rights situation in the country stagnate, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2016. The opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) under Aung San Suu Kyi won an overwhelming victory in structurally […]
• • •NLD Face Major Challenges as Lack of Rule of Law Perpetuates Impunity
Just months before the end of the President Thein Sein Government, a series of events and issues publicized over the past week demonstrate the pressing need for reforms to establish rule of law in Burma […]
Myanmar Political Prisoners Face Medical Crisis, Denied Health Care
(Yangon, January 25, 2016)—The Government of Myanmar should drop all charges and immediately and unconditionally release 53 men and women detained since March for their role in peaceful protests in the town of Letpadan in Bago Region, Fortify Rights said today […]
• • •အက်ဥ္းသား ၁၀၂ ဦးလြတ္ေပးျခင္းအေပၚ သေဘာထားေၾကညာခ်က္
၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၂၂ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အက်ဥ္းသား ၁၀၂ ဦးအား ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အစိုးရမွ ပုဒ္မ ၄၀၁(၁) ျဖင့္ လႊတ္ေပးခဲ့ေၾကာင္းသိရွိရသည္။ လႊတ္ေပးခဲ့သည့္ အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားထဲတြင္ ယခုအခ်ိန္(၂း၃၀ နာရီ) အထိ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ၅၂ ဦးသာ ပါ၀င္ေသးေၾကာင္းသိရွိရသည္ […]
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