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9 Dec 2021, 4:10 am
It asks for $150 billion in damages for knowingly fueling anti-Rohingya sentiment that enabled the military government of Burma (Myanmar) to engage in ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 6:30 am
Emily Whewell, a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, has published Law across imperial borders: British consuls and colonial connections on China's western frontiers, 1880-1943 (Manchester University Press):Law across imperial borders offers new perspectives on the complex legal connections between Britain's presence in Western China in the western frontier regions of Yunnan and Xinjiang, and the British colonies of Burma and India. [read post]
17 May 2012, 7:40 pm
Notably, the Administration announced that the Special Designated Nationals list for Burma will be updated, which will help answer concerns that the list had not previously been significantly updated in several years, leading some to raise questions as to whether it will effectively block business activities with those responsible for human rights abuses or corruption in Burma. statedHuman Rights Watch , in compliance with human rights and good environmental practices, if… [read post]
27 Sep 2007, 11:23 am
The big news here is the military crackdown in Burma (now called Myanmar)in which Buddhist monks are being beaten and arrested. [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 2:38 pm
Food Safety News reports that Burma Superstar, a popular San Francisco restaurant that voluntarily closed over Labor Day weekend following an E. coli outbreak in mid-August, has snagged a coveted spot on the Michelin Bib Gourmand list for 2014. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 12:10 am
The wire service said Monday as many as 344 bloggers have been arrested in Burma alone. [read post]
22 Dec 2022, 10:59 am
The UN Security Council Wednesday passed a resolution condemning the military junta in Myanmar, also known as Burma. [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 5:32 am
From Human Rights Watch: Burmese President U Thein Sein and National Assembly Speaker U Thura Shwe Mann should reject proposals for discriminatory marriage legislation that would strip Buddhist women of the right to freely choose whom they marry, Human Rights... [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 5:43 am
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)A proposed printing and publishing law submitted by Myanmar's Ministry of Information has alarmed free press advocates concerned that the Southeast Asian nation may be backtracking on its efforts to relax suppression of the news media.According to accounts by Agence France Presse and Global Post, the proposed measure would subject members of unaccredited news organizations to a maximum six months' imprisonment, and would restrict reporting on articles that violate the… [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 11:28 pm
Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung were found in February with a copy of a UN special rapporteur's human rights report on Burma [text, DOC], along with videotapes of last year's pro-democracy demonstrations (Independent [read post]
16 Sep 2004, 1:52 pm
A new State Department report lists a number of Asian nations among those countries which are most restrictive of religious freedoms, with China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Burma listed as "countries of particular concern. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 5:20 am
Health and Conflict: A Review of the Links (Fafo, April 2009) [text]Life in Exile: Burmese Refugees along the Thai-Burma Border (IRC, Feb. 2009) [text]Migration, Development and Social Service, Transatlantic Perspectives on Migration, Policy Brief no. 6 (ISIM, Feb. 2009) [text]"Not Criminals": Medecins sans Frontieres Exposes Conditions for Undocumented Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Maltese [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 7:31 am
In a report [text, PDF] entitled "Dead Men Walking: Convict Porters on the Front Lines in Eastern Burma," HRW and KHRG argue that convicts imprisoned in Myanmar are tortured and forced to participate in dangerous military operations and act as "human shields" to protect... [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 9:00 pm
Pro-demonstrator blogger Kho Htike has posted a CNN video here that shows Burma's claims of restraint to be as true as Big Brother's insistence that 1 + 1 = 3. [read post]
1 May 2008, 8:03 am
Forced Migration Review, no. 30 (April 2008) [full-text] - Theme of this issue is "Burma's Displaced People. [read post]
13 Dec 2004, 9:23 am
[JURIST] Oral arguments due to take place Monday afternoon before a full bench of the US Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals were cancelled Sunday night as a Unocal spokeman announced the settlement of a lawsuit against the oil company in connection with slave labor, rape, and forced relocation in connection with its construction of an oil pipeline in Burma in the 1990s. [read post]
23 Nov 2006, 9:54 am
[JURIST] The UN General Assembly's Third Committee [official website] on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs approved draft resolutions [press release] Wednesday denouncing both Belarus and Myanmar [JURIST news archives] (formerly Burma) for human rights violations. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 9:29 am
Among those released are at least 25 political prisoners [list], according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners - Burma (AAPP-B) [official website]. [read post]
27 May 2006, 12:22 pm
[JURIST] The military government of Myanmar [official website] - formerly Burma - Saturday extended the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi [advocacy website; BBC profile] for another year, according to a government source speaking to Reuters on the condition of anonymity. [read post]
6 Jun 2006, 4:47 am
[JURIST] Progress in eliminating human trafficking which victimizes some 800,000 worldwide is slow, and countries such as Belize, Burma, Iran, Laos, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe have failed to effectively combat it, the US Department of State [official website] said Monday in its annual report on human trafficking [text, PDF; additional materials]. [read post]
