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Report Card #2: Burma/Myanmar’s Insufficient Action on the ICJ’s Provisional Measures and COVID-19
November 27th, 2020 •
Author:
ALTSEAN Burma
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An enormous ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 cases threatens to overrun Burma’s critically underfunded and unprioritized public health system, while the Tatmadaw systematically demolishes ethnic people’s attempts to fight the spread of the virus.
Meanwhile in Rakhine State, Burma’s government has at the eight month mark still failed to take effective action in implementing the ICJ’s Provisional Measures, which will have increase vulnerability to pandemics and conflict for all minority people in the country.
Progressive Voice is a participatory rights-based policy research and advocacy organization rooted in civil society, that maintains strong networks and relationships with grassroots organizations and community-based organizations throughout Myanmar. It acts as a bridge to the international community and international policymakers by amplifying voices from the ground, and advocating for a rights-based policy narrative.