Coup Update
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18 February 2021
International and Regional
- BCUK (Burma Campaign UK)/ UK Announcement on Sanctioning Military Companies Welcome
- Canada (Government)/ Canada imposes sanctions on Myanmar military officials in response to coup d’état
- CFWIJ (The Coalition For Women In Journalism)/ Myanmar: CFWIJ speaks to journalists in Myanmar and condemns the escalating crackdown on civil liberties
- CIVICUS Monitor/ Myanmar added to human rights watchlist as military takes over and cracks down on dissent
- CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide)/ CSW urges EU to take steps towards arms embargo and targeted sanctions
- EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative)/ The EITI Board has temporarily suspended Myanmar
- Fortify Rights/ Myanmar: End Assault on Media Freedom
- Global Witness/ Global Witness response to suspension of Myanmar from EITI in wake of military coup (Burmese)
- Global Witness/ New sanctions by UK and Canada on Myanmar military leaders are a step in the right direction but international response must go further in tackling military’s finances
- HRW (Human Rights Watch)/ Myanmar: Sanction Generals and Military-Owned Companies
- Norway (Government)/ Update on Norwegian assistance to Myanmar
- United Kingdom (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)/ UK sanctions Myanmar military generals for serious human rights violations
Domestic
- AAPP (Assistance Association for Political Prisoners)/ Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup for 18 Feb 2021
- BHRN (Burma Human Rights Network)/ International Community Must Respond Immediately to Worsening Rights in Burma
- FEM (Free Expression Myanmar)/ FEM’s analysis of Myanmar newly-adopted Electronic Transactions Law Amendment
- GSCN (General Strike Committee of Nationalities)/ Open letter to China Embassy in Yangon from General Strike Committee of Nationalities
- IWFM (Industrial Workers’ Federation of Myanmar)/ IWFM statement on the investments of garment brands and suppliers under the military coup in Myanmar
- KHRG (Karen Human Rights Group)/ KHRG’s Statement on Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the UN HRC: Represent the People, Not the Tatmadaw (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ကုလသမဂ္ဂလူ့အခွင့်အရေးကောင်စီ (UNHRC) အမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ်မှ အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်နှင့် မရပ်တည်ပဲ ပြည်သူများနှင့်အတူရပ်တည်ရန်)
- MATA (Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability)/ Urgent Call to Extractive Companies in Myanmar (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ သယံဇာတတူးဖော်ထုတ်လုပ်ရေးကဏ္ဍ ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံသူများထံသို့ တိုက်တွန်းချက်)
- ကျမ်းမာရေးနှင့် အားကစားဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ဝန်ထမ်းများ/ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ထမ်းများ၏ Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) လှုပ်ရှားမှုနှင့် စပ်လျဥ်း၍ ကြေညာချက်
- ကျမ်းမာရေးနှင့် အားကစားဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ဝန်ထမ်းများ/ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ထမ်းများ၏ ပြည်သူသို့ မေတ္တာရပ်ခံပန်ကြားချက်
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