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Women’s groups urge Asean to put sexual violence on agenda

November 13, 2017 • Author: Krixia Subingsubing

Women’s rights groups across Southeast Asia on Sunday called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to make sexual violence against women and children a priority on the agenda of the 31st Asean Summit in Manila. In a forum organized by women’s rights network Weave... Read more ►

Coalition of 15 Human Rights Organizations Launches NOW! Campaign Calling on Vietnam to Immediately and Unconditionally Release 165 Prisoners of Conscience

November 11, 2017 • Author: Coalition of 15 Human Rights Organizations

As world leaders arrive in Vietnam for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum 11-12 November, a coalition of human rights organisations today launches the NOW! Campaign calling on the Vietnamese government to immediately and unconditionally release all prisoners of con... Read more ►

Birmanie. En plein Massacre des Rohingyas Washington Propose de copérer

September 13, 2017 • Author: L'Humanité

Malgré la dénonciation par l’ONU d’un nettoyage ethnique contre la minorité musulmane, le Sénat américain étudie une normalisation des relations militaires avec la Birmanie afin de poursuivre la stratégie d’endiguement de la Chine. Le bras de fer entre... Read more ►

NGOs send letter to Aung San Suu Kyi ensure the rights of Muslims

August 5, 2017 • Author: Mizzima

The Burma Human Rights Network and 19 other Organizations have issued a letter to Myanmar State Chancellor Aung San Suu Kyi calling on the Myanmar Government to ensure the rights of Burmese Muslims following a spat of anti-Muslim incidents inside the country. The letter w... Read more ►

ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား ေနရပ္ ျပန္ပို႔ေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ အျမင္သေဘာထားမ်ား

June 22, 2017 • Author: Karen Information Center

ေနာ္လားအဲဒို႔ ။ ။ သုေတသနာလက္ေထာက္ ( Progressive Voice – ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံ ) အခုထိ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ မၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေသးဘူး။ အစ�... Read more ►

Minimum wage war in Myanmar

June 21, 2017 • Author: ELI MEIXLER/ Asia Times

Factory owners are under pressure to raise worker wages but any dramatic rise could discourage foreign brands from investing in the low-cost nation. When Myanmar passed its first minimum wage in September 2015, the legislation was widely hailed as a landmark achievement for ... Read more ►

In Burma, garment industry booms – and labour unions pay the price

March 20, 2017 • Author: LIBBY HOGAN / DVB

Discrimination against workers standing up for their rights in Burma’s garment industry was highlighted this month after a union leader was fired and employees’ overtime pay went neglected for more than a year at a factory supplying global fashion brand H&M. At Hangz... Read more ►

Workers Organizing in Myanmar

March 11, 2017 • Author: Rabble Media

Labour updates of workers struggles in the Asia Pacific region with specific reference to the court decisions on Park Geun-hye’s impeachment in South Korea and the 117 Maruti Suzuki workers in northern India. Interview with Alex Moodie, Research Officer with the Myanma... Read more ►

ဦးကိုနီလုပ္ႀကံခံရမႈအေပၚတိုင္းရင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ တခ်ိဳ႕ရဲ႕အျမင္မ်ား

January 31, 2017 • Author: Kyaw Kha/ The Irrawaddy

က်မတို႔နိုင္ငံရဲ႕ နိုင္ငံေရးအေျခအေနက စနစ္ေဟာင္းကိုဆက္ဆုပ္ကိုင္ၿပီး ဒီစံနစ္ေဟာင္းေပၚကေန ဆက္ၿပီး�... Read more ►

UNFC Hosts Stakeholder Meeting to Discuss Peace Process

December 27, 2016 • Author: Nyein Nyein/ The Irrawaddy

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The ethnic armed group alliance the United Nationalities Federal Council hosts a three-day stakeholder consultation meeting from Dec. 27-29 in Chiang Mai, Thailand to discuss further approaches to the current peace process. Attended by more than 60... Read more ►

Activists Decry Lack of Peace Progress Under NLD Govt

December 23, 2016 • Author: Saw Yan Naing/The Irrawaddy

Some of Burma’s longtimepoliticalactivistsadmitted in a conference on Thursday in Thailand that progress in the country’s peace process has been more challenging under the current National League for Democracy (NLD) government than they had anticipated. At a panel discus... Read more ►

Myanmar garment industry “still lacking labour rights”

December 5, 2016 • Author: Michelle Russell/ just-style

Myanmar’s garment industry has a long way to go before it is sustainable, a new report has found, with workers still deprived of internationally recognized human and labour rights. While still small compared to its larger rivals China and Banglasesh, Myanmar’s garment in... Read more ►

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