09 December 2021
Online discussion on reconstituting the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission: Myanmar civil society proposes a new Union Human Rights Commission Law
The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) has long suffered from a trust deficit, stemming from its enabling law which fell short of meeting internationally recognized standards of how a National Human Rights Institution should function, otherwise known as the Paris Principles. The attempted military coup of 1 February has brought the shortcomings and failures of the MNHRC sharply into focus as it failed to respond to the Myanmar junta’s grave human rights violations, let alone condemn the attempted coup. As the Myanmar military intensifies its acts of terror across Myanmar, there is an urgent need for the legitimate government of Myanmar to abolish the current MNHRC that is still operating under the control of the junta and establish a new independent National Human Rights Institution that will work to protect and promote human rights.
The CSO Working Group on MNHRC Reform has submitted a proposed draft of a new Union Human Rights Commission (UHRC) Law to the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC), the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) and the National Unity Government (NUG). This is the first law ever to be proposed by civil society organizations to the legitimate government of Myanmar since the attempted coup. Speakers will discuss the current human rights situation on the ground in Myanmar and the significance of the proposed law, as well as a way forward to establish a new independent commission that is fully in compliance with the Paris Principles.
The Working Group on MNHRC Reform and the Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI) will also launch a report “You’re the Devil in Disguise: the Duplicitous, Obsolete MNHRC”, highlighting how the endemic flaws in the structural integrity of the MNHRC’s legal framework led to its eventual capitulation in the aftermath of 1 February, 2021 attempted coup by the illegal Myanmar military junta.
When: Tuesday 14 December 2021, 10:00 – 11:30 am Yangon Time (GMT+6:30)
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wklJvooJTh-WXDY3lTb1fA
Speakers:
Moderator:
For more information, please contact: [email protected]
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအမျိုးသားလူ့အခွင့်အရေးကော်မရှင် ပြန်လည်ဖွဲ့စည်းရေးနှင့်ပတ်သက်သော အွန်လိုင်းဆွေးနွေးပွဲ – မြန်မာအရပ်ဘက်လူထုအဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ ပြည်ထောင်စုလူ့အခွင့်အရေးကော်မရှင်ဥပဒေ အသစ်တစ်ရပ်ကို အဆိုပြုတင်သွင်းခြင်း
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအမျိုးသားလူ့
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအမျိုးသားလူ့
တစ်ချိန်တည်းတွင် အလုပ်အဖွဲ့ နှင့် အာရှဒေသ အမျိုးသားလူ့အခွင့်အရေးဌာနများ
နေ့ရက် ။ ။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၄ ရက် (အင်္ဂါနေ့)
အချိန် ။ ။ နံနက် ၁၀း၀၀ – ၁၁း၃၀ နာရီအထိ (မြန်မာစံတော်ချိန် GMT +6:30)
နာမည်စာရင်း ပေးသွင်းရန် – https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wklJvooJTh-WXDY3lTb1fA
ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးမည့်သူများ –
Moderator
ထပ်မံသိရှိလိုပါက ဆက်သွယ်ရန် – [email protected]
28 February 2025
Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions , CSO Working Group on Independent National Human Rights Institution (Burma/Myanmar)
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