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Myanmar: International Community Must Ensure Justice and Accountability

July 3, 2019 • Author: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Progressive Voice and Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA)

(Geneva, 3 July 2019) The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Progressive Voice and Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA) call on the international community to expedite the full operationalisation of the independent investigative... Read more ►

Oral Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar

July 3, 2019 • Author: International Federation for Human Rights

Madam Vice-President, Madam Rapporteur, FIDH and its member organization ALTSEAN-Burma welcome your oral update. We are deeply troubled by recent developments in Rakhine State. The ongoing arbitrary detention of dozens of civilians in Rakhine and Chin States under the Unlawf... Read more ►

Fresh Military Violations Highlight Ongoing Impunity in Myanmar: Amnesty International Oral Statement at the 41st Session of the Human Rights Council

July 3, 2019 • Author: Amnesty International

Oral statement delivered by Amnesty International during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar at the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council. Mr. President, We thank the Special Rapporteur for her update. We agr... Read more ►

HRC41 Oral Statement on Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

July 3, 2019 • Author: FORUM-ASIA

41st Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Oral Statement Delivered by Khin Ohmar On behalf of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Wednesda... Read more ►

Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar: Oral Update to 41st Session of the Human Rights Council

July 2, 2019 • Author: Yanghee Lee, the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar

Mr President, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to update you on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. I welcome the recent announcement by the Government that the “Other Accounts” of the extractive industry State-owned e... Read more ►

ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

July 2, 2019 • Author: Karenni National Women Organization

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Statement of the 6th Congress of Karenni National Women Organization (KNWO)

July 2, 2019 • Author: Karenni National Women Organization

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လုုပ္ငန္းခြင္အတြင္း လိင္စိတ္ဝိေသသကြဲျပားမႈကို အဓမၼ ေဖာ္ထုုတ္ခံခဲ့ရပီး၊ နိုုင္ထက္စီးနင္းျပဳက်င့္ ခံခဲ့ရသည့္ ေမာင္ေက်ာ္ဇင္�...

June 26, 2019 • Author: Over 120 Individuals and Civil Soceity Organizations

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International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: Transitional Justice for Torture Survivors is Key to Building Peace and Democracy

June 26, 2019 • Author: Women’s League of Burma, the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners, the Vimutti Women’s Organization and Asia Justice and Rights

Women’s League of Burma (WLB), the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners (AAPP), the Vimutti Women’s Organization (VWO) and Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) are calling for an end to torture, and for holistic justice for torture survivors. Torture is not a practice... Read more ►

ညႇဥ္းပန္းႏွိပ္စက္ခံရသူမ်ားကို ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့ေရး အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာေန႔

June 26, 2019 • Author: Women’s League of Burma, the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners, the Vimutti Women’s Organization and Asia Justice and Rights

ညႇဥ္းပန္းႏွိပ္စက္မႈမ်ားမွ အသက္ရွင္က်န္ရစ္သူမ်ားအတြက္ အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းမႈဆိုင္ရာတရားမၽွတမႈ လုပ္င�... Read more ►

Statement on Internet Shutdown

June 26, 2019 • Author: The Embassy of Sweden

The Embassy of Sweden is deeply concerned to learn that the Myanmar Government has ordered a shutdown of internet services in the conflict-affected townships of Rakhine and Chin States. To limit the free flow of information will affect the public’s ability to get knowledge... Read more ►

Myanmar’s Discriminatory Citizenship Laws Can and Must be Immediately Reformed

June 25, 2019 • Author: International Commission of Jurists

Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law, which has fueled widespread discrimination against various ethnic minority groups, is irreconcilable with core rule of law principles and the State’s obligations under international human rights law, the ICJ said today in a briefing paper.... Read more ►

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