June 2022

International and Regional

• Asia Democracy Network,  Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development,  Burma Human Rights Network,  Initiatives for International Dialogue,  International Federation for Human Rights,  Progressive Voice and US Campaign for Burma/ BURMA COUP WATCH FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2022: Junta and AA on the brink of war as displacement figures hit record high
• 65 International and Civil Society Organizations/ Malaysia: Two years on, still no protection & accountability for Rohingya HRD Zafar Ahmad from harassment and threats
• 199 International and Myanmar Organizations/ International Community and Concerned Organizations Call for Ending 4 Burmese Activists Executions/ Thai languages.
• 459 Organizations from 20 Countries/ Myanmar and International: Call on President Macron and the French Government to refuse to allow TotalEnergies to use exemptions to EU Sanctions/
• Access Now/ Internet Shutdowns Hide Atrocities: People in Myanmar Need Global Action
• Amnesty International/ Myanmar: Plans to carry out arbitrary executions must halt immediately
• ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights/ Southeast Asian MPs urge ASEAN economic ministers to immediately tackle food crisis
• ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights/ International coalition of Parliamentarians launches Inquiry into global response to Myanmar coup
• ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights/ Southeast Asian MPs alarmed by planned executions of four Myanmar political prisoners
• Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project/ ACLED Regional Overview – East Asia Pacific (28 May – 3 June 2022)
• Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project/ ACLED Regional Overview – East Asia Pacific (21-27 May 2022)
• Australia (Minister for Foreign Affairs)/ Professor Sean Turnell Trial
• Burma Campaign UK/ New UK Burma Sanctions Welcome – Aviation Fuel Must Be Next
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/ Myanmar: Response overview, June 2022
• Fortify Rights/ U.N. Member States: Hold Myanmar Military Accountable for Ongoing Crimes
• France (Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs)/ Burma/Myanmar – France is concerned about the military regime’s decision to transfer Ms Aung San Suu Kyi to prison (27 Jun. 2022)
• Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect/ Myanmar (Burma) – Over 1,800 people have been killed and at least 10,800 people remain detained since 1 February 2021
• Government of Canada/ Canada announces next phase of strategy responding to Rohingya and Myanmar crises
• Human Rights Watch/ Myanmar: The Rohingya’s Decade of Detention
• Human Rights Watch/ Myanmar: Junta Vows to Enforce Death Sentences
• Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar/ အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း နေအိမ်၊ အဆောက်အအုံ ၂၂,၀၀၀ ကျော်မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်းခံခဲ့ရ
• International Committee of the Red Cross/ Myanmar: Communities in north Shan State face conflicts new and old
• International Committee of the Red Cross/ Myanmar: Raising awareness of landmine risks, minimizing threat to lives
• International Committee of the Red Cross/ ICRC Regional Director for Asia Pacific visits Myanmar
• International Crisis Group/ Avoiding a Return to War in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
• International Labour Organization/ ILO Myanmar calls for more action to end child labour
• Japan (Ministry of Defense)/ The 7th ASEAN-Japan Defense Ministers’ Informal Meeting
• Justice For Myanmar/ Petronas, PTTEP, ENEOS, Mitsubishi Corp & Japan Gov irresponsibly exiting Yetagun gas project/ Burmese version.
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia/ ASEAN Chair Special Envoy Urges Return of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi To Home
• Mixed Migration Centre/ MMC Asia 4Mi Snapshot – Journeys to Indonesia for Rohingya refugees: Routes, risks, assistance and needs (June 2022)
• Myanmar Information Management Unit/ Climate, Environmental Degradation and Disaster Risk in Myanmar: a MIMU Analytical Brief (May 2022)
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Activist accuses military of seeking to erase Myanmar’s Rohingyas
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Myanmar: Crisis taking an enormous toll on children, UN committee warns
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Myanmar: UN expert encouraged by Malaysia’s leadership on Myanmar crisis; urges regional states to adopt similar stance
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Myanmar: UN human rights expert to visit Malaysia
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ 50th Session of the Human Rights Council Oral update on Myanmar
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ UN expert releases new report documenting military junta’s impact on Myanmar’s children, urges immediate coordinated action to prevent “a lost generation”
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Myanmar: UN experts sound alarm over junta’s decision to enforce death sentences
• Save the Children/ Myanmar: Number of children out of school more than doubles in two years
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ The Human Rights Council Must Fully Recognise the NUG, and Set Up a Special Tribunal To Prosecute the Illegal Junta
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ Planned Executions Announced by the Illegal Military Junta would Amount to Summary Executions
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ Revolutionary Systems of Local Governance in Myanmar Should Receive International Assistance
• United Kingdom (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)/ UN Human Rights Council 50: UK statement on Myanmar
• United Kingdom (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)/ Financial Sanctions Notice – Myanmar
• United Kingdom (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)/ Calling on Myanmar’s military to end the violence, grant unhindered humanitarian access, and uphold human rights
• United Nations/ Death sentences announced by Myanmar military may constitute a serious international crime – Statement by Nicholas Koumjian, Head of Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar
• United Nations Children’s Fund/ UNICEF statement on the death of two boys by a grenade round explosion in Magwe Region, Myanmar/ Burmese version.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees/ Op-ed for World Refugee Day 2022
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees/ Myanmar Emergency Update (as of 1 June 2022)
• United Nations Myanmar/ Statement by Mr. Ramanathan Balakrishnan, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator a.i., on the killing of WHO staff member
• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs/ Myanmar Humanitarian Update No. 19 | 28 June 2022
• United Nations Office for Project Services/ Conflict, food insecurity and pandemic: A triangle of suffering in Myanmar
• United Nations Population Fund/ UNFPA launches Baykin 2 Mobile Application to introduce adolescents and young people with sexual and reproductive health & rights and gender related topics.
• United States Mission to the United Nations/ Remarks at a UN General Assembly Briefing on the Human Rights Situation in Burma
• Working Group on Independent National Human Rights Institutions for Burma/Myanmar/ Open letter: Myanmar junta participation in the Environmental Rights and Climate Change Workshop/ Burmese version.
• World Food Programme/ WFP Myanmar Situation Report (May 2022)
• World Food Programme/ WFP Myanmar Market Price Update (April 2022)

Domestic  

• 116 Mandalay-based Civil Society Organizations Network/ အာဆီယံ The AHA Center နှင့် သက်ဆိုင်ရာ နိုင်ငံတကာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွက် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆိုင်ရာ အကူအညီများကို အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စု၏ လက်ထဲသို့သာထိုးထည့်လိုက်မည့် အပေါ် မန္တလေးအခြေစိုက် အရပ်ဘက်လူမှုအဖွဲ့အစည်း (၁၁၆) ဖွဲ့များမှ အပြင်းအထန် ကန့်ကွက်ရှုတ်ချခြင်း
• 688 Myanmar, Regional and International Civil Society Organisations/ Open letter to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong from 688 civil society organisations/ Burmese version.
• 677 Myanmar, Regional and International Civil Society Organizations/ Open Letter to ASEAN Defence Ministers/ Burmese version.
• 33 Civil Society Organizations/ စစ်ကောင်စီက ကျင်းပပေးမည့် ၂၀၂၃ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ သဘောထားထုတ်ပြန်ချက် (၁၃၊ ၆၊ ၂၀၂၂)
• Assistance Association for Political Prisoners/ Press Release: Regarding Stated Execution of 4 Sentenced to Death Political Prisoners/ Burmese version.
• Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, Asia Justice and Rights, All Arakan Students’ & Youths’ Congress, Burma Civil War Museum, Equality Myanmar, Association of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters, Human Rights Foundation of Monland, Knowledge Hub Myanmar, Karen Women’ s Organization, Network for Human Rights Documentation Burma, Ta ‘ang Civil Society Organization, Union Of Karenni State Youth, Women’ s League of Burma and Women for Justice/ International Day in Support o f Victims o f Torture – Stop Torture, End Impunity/ Burmese version.
• Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw/ (၁၄၇) နှစ်မြောက် ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားနေ့သို့ ပေးပို့သည့် သဝဏ်လွှာ
• Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw/ အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်၊ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်၏ (၇၇)နှစ်ပြည့် မွေးနေ့ပွဲအခမ်းအနားသို့ပေးပို့သည့် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ၏ သဝဏ်လွှာ
• Foodpanda Riders/ Foodpanda Riders များ၏တောင်းဆိုချက်နဲ့ ပါတ်သက်၍ ကုမ္ပဏီမှ ဖြေရှင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရန် အသိပေးထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
• Free Burma Rangers/ One Week of Attacks: Burma Army Pushes More Than 4,800 People Into Hiding
• Free Burma Rangers/ 16-year-old Boy Loses Foot to Landmine Placed in Front of Burning Karenni Church.
• Free Burma Rangers/ A Popular Uprising Against the Regime in Northern Burma
• Human Rights Foundation of Monland/ The Human Rights Foundation of Monland Calls for International Humanitarian Support on Refugee Day;Local Actors Must be Supported on the Ground
• Justice For Myanmar/ Kirin Holdings’ irresponsible exit will continue its complicity in Myanmar military’s atrocity crimes
• Justice For Myanmar/ Justice For Myanmar welcomes further UK sanctions on arms dealers
• Justice For Myanmar/ Sanction Mytel for complicity in the Myanmar military’s crimes!
• Karen Human Rights Group/ International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
• Karen Human Rights Group/ Denied and Deprived: Local communities confronting the humanitarian crisis and protection challenges in Southeast Burma/ Burmese version.
• Kachin Women’s Association Thailand/ New Report Maps Out SAC War Crimes in Northern Burma/ Burmese version.
• Kachin Women’s Association Thailand/ New Threats from the Air: Human Rights Violations by SAC Forces in Kachin and Northern Shan State, November 2021 to April 2022
• Karen Women’s Organization/ The Karen Women’s Organization Calls on World Refugee Day For Refugees to be Supported to Live with Dignity/ Burmese version/ Karen version.
• Karenni Civil Society Network/ Summary of SAC human rights violations in Karenni State and Pekhon Township (June 6 – June 19, 2022)/ Burmese version.
• Karenni Civil Society Network/ May 23-June 5, 2022 Summary of SAC human rights violations in Karenni State and Pekhon Township/ Burmese version.
• Ministry of International Cooperation Myanmar/ Dr. Sasa’s Speech for Religious Freedom
• Ministry of International Cooperation Myanmar/ National Unity Government of Myanmar Press Briefing NUG Press Conference English Summary
• Ministry of International Cooperation Myanmar/ Dr.Sasa welcomes the announcement from the Canadian Government on the next phase of the strategy for the Rohingya and Myanmar Crises
• National Unity Government of Myanmar/ National Unity Government Statement (15/2022)/ Burmese version.
• National Unity Government of Myanmar/ National Unity Government Statement (14/2022)/ Burmese version.
• National Unity Government of Myanmar/ Statement in response to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights at the UNHRC Session/Burmese version.
• National Unity Government of Myanmar/ United Nations Human Rights Council 50th Session Panel Discussion on the Root Causes of Human Rights Violations and Abuses against Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar
• National Unity Government of Myanmar/ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၁၁/၂၀၂၂) – အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီနှင့် ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်း အပေးအယူပြုလုပ်မှုများအား တရားမဝင်ကြောင်းနှင့် အသိအမှတ်ပြုလက်ခံခြင်းရှိမည် မဟုတ်ကြောင်း အသိပေးကြေညာချက်
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Defence)/ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ၊ ကာကွယ်ရေး၀န်ကြီးဌာန၏ ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားများကာကွယ်ရေးတပ် (Karenni Nationalities Defense Forces – KNDF) ဖွဲ့စည်းတည်ထောင်ခြင်း (၁)နှစ်ပြည့်အထိမ်းအမှတ်အခမ်းအနားသို့ ပေးပို့သည့် ဂုဏ်ပြုသ၀ဏ်လွှာ
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Justice)/ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ သေဒဏ်အတည်ပြုခြင်းအပေါ် တရားမဝင်ကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာခြင်း
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)/ NUG urges for G7 member countries to deliver on its commitment made last year
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Human Rights)/ Statement in response to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights at the UNHRC Session/ Burmese version.
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Human Rights and Ministry of Education)/ Statement on military terrorist’s attempt to open the schools/ Burmese version.
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)/ Statement of Union Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs on her visit to the United States in May 2022
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Human Rights)/ United Nations Human Rights Council 50th session: ITEM 4 – Oral update report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Human Rights)/ National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Response to the UN Child Rights Committee’s public statement on Myanmar’s children
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Labour)/ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ အလုပ်သမားဝန်ကြီးဌာန ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် ၉ /၂၀၂၂ – အလုပ်သမားဥပဒေ၊ နည်းဥပဒေများကို လေးစားလိုက်နာကျင့်သုံး ဆောင်ရွက်သွားကြရန် သတိပေးကြေညာခြင်း
• National Unity Government (Ministry of Planning, Finance and Investment)/ Notification on Establishment of the Digital Myanmar Kyat (DMMK) and NUGPay Mobile Wallet
• Shan Human Rights Foundation/ Wa youth sentenced to death by SAC court after forced confession to bombing in Tachileik