ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္အေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာအရပ္ဘက္လူထုအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၏ လက္ရွိျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးျဖစ္စဥ္အေပၚ ႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္ပြဲ

ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္အေျခစိုက္လႈပ္ရွားေနၾကေသာ အရပ္ဘက္လူထုအဖြဲ႕အစည္း တို႕သည္ ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္ ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၁၉ ရက္ႏွင့္ ၂၀ ရက္တို႕တြင္ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးျဖစ္စဥ္အေပၚ အျမင္ဖလွယ္ျခင္းႏွင့္ မိမိအဖြဲ႕အစည္း လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားအားရွင္းလင္းတင္ျပျခင္းအျပင္ အနာဂတ္ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္မႈ အလားအလာ တို႕အေပၚ ေတြ႕ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ ႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္ပြဲတြင္ လက္ရွိ ႏိုင္ငံေရးျဖစ္စဥ္အေပၚ သံုးသပ္ဖလွယ္ျခင္းမ်ားျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ျပီး က်န္းမာေရး […]

Over 650 Myanmar/Burma Civil Society Actors Speak Out on the Reality of the Transition

The forum titled, “Civil Societies’ Review on Myanmar/Burma’s Transition Process: Prospects for 2015 and Beyond”, held on 15 – 17 October 2014 at the Myanmar Christian Fellowship of the Blind Center in Rangoon, brought together over 650 representatives from 257 organizations and networks from across the country and border areas to discuss and strategize a wide range of key issues currently facing Burma in the context of the recent economic and political reforms since 2011. This is the first forum of this scale to assess the reform and the wide range of problems currently facing Burma.

Despite the hailed “transition to democracy,” exalted particularly by the international community, civil society organizations (CSOs) spoke of the decades old challenges that remain unresolved, the stagnation of the reform process, and new emerging issues, in addition to the need for meaningful inclusion of the voices of civil society, democratic opposition forces, ethnic peoples, women and youth in the reform process.

The forum addressed six core issues; (1) law reform, (2) peace and conflict, (3) media, hate speech and communal violence, (4) Parliament, Government and accountability, (5) economic reform and foreign direct investment, and (6) the international community’s role and involvement, which were discussed under six panel discussions and six workshops. The forum produced a statement that gave concrete recommendations from civil society groups to the Burma Government, United Nations, international governments and international non-governmental organizations (lNGOs) […]