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17 May 2024, 8:58 am
On February 16, the CPJ urged the Myanmar government to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of Democratic Voice of Burma journalist Myat Thu Tan’s killing. [read post]
3 May 2024, 4:05 am
These include 12 that the State Department designated as CPCs in December 2023: Burma, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—as well as five additional recommendations: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Nigeria, and Vietnam.The 2024 Annual Report also recommends 11 countries for placement on the State Department’s Special Watch List (SWL) based on their governments’ perpetration or toleration of… [read post]
2 May 2024, 5:00 am
For more details, please review the USCIS Upcoming National Engagement, “Temporary Protected Status Extension and Redesignation for Burma (Myanmar)“. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 3:52 pm
Case Documents:Filing Date Type File Summary 11/26/2020 Application Download Application to the European Court of Human Rights 03/25/2021 Order Download Court communication letter to the Swiss government (in English) 04/26/2021 Order Download Subject matter of the case and questions attached to the communication letter (in French) 07/16/2021 … [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 6:59 am
On March 25, 2024, DHS extended and redesignated TPS for Burma until Nov. 25, 2025. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 5:00 am
For further details please review the DHS Press Release, “Secretary Mayorkas Announces Extension and Redesignation of Burma (Myanmar) for Temporary Protected Status“ Background: Continue reading [read post]
24 Mar 2024, 6:50 pm
David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment has recently summarized and reflected on th quite interesting case recently decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Habitantes de La Oroya Vs. [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 5:24 am
Burma’s democratically elected civilian government was overthrown in a military coup on February 1, 2021, giving rise to further widespread violence that continues to put individuals in Burma at significant risk. [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 6:14 am
Myat Thu Tan previously reported for the Democratic Voice of Burma, an independent news source advocating for democracy and human rights. [read post]
15 Jan 2024, 7:59 pm
Secretary of State Blinken's announcement (full text) said in part:I have designated Burma, the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, the DPRK, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan as Countries of Particular Concern for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 8:45 am
” The State Department has designated Burma, China, Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan as CPCs for severe violations of religious freedom. [read post]
24 Dec 2023, 2:10 pm
These decisions add to the growing corpus of privatized public law around the emerging cluster of presumptions that together constitute the norm of facilitation, a close companion to but not the same thing, as complicity, especially respecting the current government in Myanmar (Burma). [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 5:55 am
The robust U.S. response to Russian atrocities in Ukraine – including tens of billions of dollars in security and humanitarian assistance, multiple rounds of economic sanctions, a crimes against humanity determination announced by the vice president, and a presidential visit – stands in sharp contrast to cases such as Burma, Ethiopia, and Sudan, where other U.S. interests do not align so neatly with atrocity prevention. [read post]
24 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
., federally designated “foreign adversaries,” which includes China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“Hong Kong”), Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and the Nicolás Maduro Regime (“Maduro Regime”) of Venezuela;[3] a broader list which could also include countries such as Burma, Saudi Arabia, or Syria; or restrictions solely focused on China and Hong Kong; The types of activities restricted—e.g., whether the restrictions apply… [read post]
30 Aug 2023, 4:00 am
On August 30th each year, the world is reminded that hundreds of thousands of people in at least 85 countries don’t know where their loved ones are, or even whether they are alive or dead. [read post]
22 Aug 2023, 9:30 pm
This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 5:55 am
” He also identified intent to destroy a group and hate speech as part of a path to genocide in the situation of the Rohingya in Burma/Myanmar, stating that it “mirror[s] in so many ways the path to the Holocaust and other genocides. [read post]
5 Aug 2023, 5:04 am
This week, in Threats Against Journalists in Asia: Online Trolling and Jailing of Reporters, Tanyalak Thongyoojaroen focuses on China, Burma, and Vietnam. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 9:47 am
” Following the announcement, the US State Department released a statement, reading: The United States is deeply concerned by the Burma military regime’s extension of the state of emergency, which comes as the regime plunges the country deeper into violence and instability….The regime’s widespread brutality and disregard for the democratic aspirations of the people of Burma continue to prolong the crisis….We continue to call for it to end… [read post]
27 Jul 2023, 11:06 am
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) between Australia, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam recently became effective in the Philippines. [read post]
