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Media Advisory: The Launch of a New Briefing Paper on Freedom of Assembly and the Youth Peace Movement in Myanmar

July 6, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice

As the third Panglong conference starts after its months-long delay, it is more important than ever for the public to be able to freely assemble and express their views to the Myanmar Government, military, leaders and members of society regarding the ongoing decades-long civ... Read more ►

Civil rights activists call for civilian control of local administration

May 15, 2018 • Author: The Myanmar Times

Civil rights activists have called on the government to place under civilian control administrative bodies such as the Ministry of Home Affairs, which oversees the General Administration Department, which supervises ward and village tract administrators. The Action Comm... Read more ►

ရပ္ေက်းအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးဥပေဒ ျပန္လည္ျပင္ဆင္ရန္ အရပ္ဘက္အဖြဲ႕ ႏွစ္ဖြဲ႕ေတာင္းဆို

May 14, 2018 • Author: 7Day Daily

ရပ္ကြက္ (သို႔မဟုတ္) ေက်းရြာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးဥပေဒကို ျပန္လည္ျပင္ဆင္ရန္ အရပ္ဘက္ လူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းႏွစ္ခုက စာတ... Read more ►

Toward a more people-centered government

May 10, 2018 • Author: Aung Khaing Min and Ye Min Naung / Mizzima

The recent elections for ward and village tract administrators should have been an exercise in local-level participatory democracy. Yet flaws in the law that mandates these elections – the Ward or Village Tract Administration Law – means that this opportunity has been lo... Read more ►

မီဒီယာဖိတ္ၾကားလႊာ – “အေျခခံလူတန္းစား၏ဒီမိုကေရစီ – ရပ္ကြက္ သို႔မဟုတ္ ေက်းရြာအုပ္စု အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ဥပေဒအား သံုးသပ္ျခင္း” စာတမ္းတုိ မိတ္ဆက္ပြဲ

May 8, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice

၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္ အေစာပိုင္းတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ ရပ္ကြက္ႏွင့္ ေက်းရႊာအုပ္စု အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးမ်ား ေရြးေက�... Read more ►

Media Advisory: Launch of the Briefing Paper “Grassroots Democracy: Analysis of the Ward or Village Tract Administration Law”

May 8, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice

The nationwide election of ward and village tract administrators, which took place earlier this year in 2018, was the first nationwide election under the National League for Democracy-led government since amendments to the Ward or Village Tract Administration Law were passed... Read more ►

ႏုုိင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတထံ အရပ္ဘက္အဖြဲ ့အစည္းမ်ား၏ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာ

April 26, 2018 • Author: 163 Myanmar Civil Society Organizations

သို ့ ဦး၀င္းျမင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္။ ရက္စြဲ။ ။ ၂၀၁၈ခုႏွစ္၊ ဧျပီလ (�... Read more ►

UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Myanmar Strengthens UN Mechanisms on Myanmar, But Stops Short of Going Further

March 23, 2018 • Author: FORUM-ASIA

(Geneva, 23 March 2018) Today the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Myanmar with 35 states voting in favour 5 against and 10 abstaining in the 47 member body.[1] The resolution maintains and strengthens existing human rights mechanisms on Myanmar which is a po... Read more ►

ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ စုေ၀းျခင္းနွင့္ စီတန္းလွည့္လည္ျခင္းဆုိင္ရာဥပေဒကို ျပင္ဆင္သည့္ ဥပေဒၾကမ္းအေပၚ အရပ္ဘက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

March 5, 2018 • Author: 230 Myanmar Civil Society Organizations and 25 Individuals

(၁) ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာစုေဝးျခင္းႏွင့္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာစီတန္းလွည့္လည္ျခင္းဆုိင္ရာဥပေဒကိုျပင္ဆင္သည့္ဥပ�... Read more ►

Joint Statement: Organizations Call for Outright Rejection of Draft Amendments to the Constitution and Criminal Code

February 21, 2018 • Author: 64 Human Rights Organizations and Comunnities

We, the undersigned organizations and communities, express our grave concern regarding the Royal Government of Cambodia (“RGC”)’s proposed amendments to the Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Constitution”), as well as the proposed introduction of a lè... Read more ►

Statement on Government Plans to Resume the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Project

February 20, 2018 • Author: 36 Myanmar Civil Society Organizations

We are deeply concerned by the Myanmar government’s plans to resume the Dawei SEZ. Dawei society – from the sea to the fields to the highlands, from Dawei town to all surrounding areas, from Dawei migrants working abroad to their friends and family in Dawei – will expe... Read more ►

21 Civil Society Organisations from Inside and Outside Myanmar Letter to EU

January 22, 2018 • Author: 21 Civil Society Organisations

Ministers to the European Union Foreign Affairs Council Your Excellencies, Ahead of the 22 January 2018 Foreign Affairs Council meeting, we, the undersigned, write to you to request robust action from the European Union (EU) and its Member States to support the Rohingya and ... Read more ►

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