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16 Dec 2016, 2:52 am
Contents include: Kerstin Lingen & Robert Cribb, Justice in Time of Turmoil: War Crimes Trials in Asia in the Context of Decolonization and Cold War Neil Boister, Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism in China: The Opium Question at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal Beatrice Trefalt, The French Prosecution at the IMTFE: Robert Oneto, Indochina and the Rehabilitation of French Prestige Milinda Banerjee, Decolonization and Subaltern Sovereignty: India and the Tokyo Trial Anja Bihler, … [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 9:15 am
What followed was a story of almost unimaginable suffering, stoicism, mental fortitude and endurance; he survived the ruthless regime that the Japanese Imperial Army imposed upon Allied PoWs working on the Burma-Siam Railway, the so-called Death Railway, survived being torpedoed while aboard the brutal Japanese “hellships” and the Nagasaki atomic bomb detonation. [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 4:05 am
-China Dialogue, including among many other items an assessment the treatment of political dissidents, media representatives, and ethnic and religious minorities;Section 106 calling for a report which "(1) describes in detail all known widespread or systematic civil or political rights violations, including violations that may constitute crimes against humanity against ethnic, racial, or religious minorities in Burma, including the Rohingya people; and (2) provides recommendations for… [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 4:43 pm
. ### An informal workshop on verifying news and information spread across social media was held recently at Phandeeyar in Yangon, Burma, led by the Foundation’s Special Advisor, Sanjana Hattotuwa. [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 9:32 am
” Citing Lord Reid in Burmah Oil Co (Burma Trading) Ltd v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75, the Court determined: “The prerogative is really a relic of a past age, not lost by disuse, but only available for a case not covered by statute. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 5:47 pm
On September 15, 2016, President Obama announced that U.S. economic sanctions on Myanmar (also known as Burma) would end, but the announcement left many questions as to what would change and what sanctions might remain. [read post]
17 Sep 2016, 11:54 am
Burma Superstar first opened in San Francisco back in 1992 and is largely credited with popularizing Burmese cuisine in California. [read post]
17 Sep 2016, 11:54 am
Burma Superstar first opened in San Francisco back in 1992 and is largely credited with popularizing Burmese cuisine in California. [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 10:30 am
Constructing Americans' Responsibility to Give: Shifting Debates about Foreign and Humanitarian Aid to Child Refugees, 1945-1989, Dissertation (University of Minnesota, May 2016) [text]Counseling Refugees of Middle Eastern Descent in the United States, Thesis (James Madison University, Spring 2016) [text]Creeping towards Justice: Domestic Violence and the Sovereign State in Asylum Law, Honors thesis (Whitman College, Spring 2016) [text]Interpreting Narratives of No Return: Canadian Asylum Claim… [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 1:08 pm
The plaintiffs are six students, who are between 17-21 and who are refugees from Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burma. [read post]
24 Aug 2016, 9:30 pm
Animals:o Jonathan Saha’s Colonizing Animals: A blog about beasts, Burma and British Imperialismo Chris Pearson’s Sniffing the Past: Dogs and Historyo Le Minh Khai’s SEAsian History Blog: Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past: touches on many different fields, including the history of animals. [read post]
13 Aug 2016, 8:27 am
Closer to home, the Australia-Asia-Pacific region has also seen the realities of law’s absence— from the Northern Territory and the exceptionalisation of Indigenous peoples to the appropriation of Buddhism in Burma and Sri Lanka for discriminatory State-building purposes, to the Kafkaesque treatment of asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 5:10 am
The United States also continued to deploy a variety of resources to support efforts to resolve conflicts in the Middle East, Syria, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan, South Sudan, Burma, Ukraine, and Yemen. [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 4:30 am
PDF version A review of To the Secretary: Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect by Mary Thompson-Jones (W.W. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 8:45 am
In the 1990s, to take another example, the European Union, Japan and the Association of Southeastern Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) all filed vociferous objections to legislation enacted by the State of Massachusetts that imposed prejudicial trade conditions on companies doing business in what was then war-torn Burma. [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 11:10 am
The list of countries with supposedly democratic institutions that began their downward spiral toward one-man rule with efforts to jail prominent members of the political opposition is a long one: Venezuela, Ukraine, Burma, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Russia, Honduras, Syria, Egypt … “The governments of those countries are laughingstocks, jokes — not like our great constitutional republic,” you might say. [read post]
27 May 2016, 6:37 pm
Legal studies of Myanmar/Burma have been booming in recent years, with exciting new work coming out by scholars like Australia-based Nick Cheesman and Melissa Crouch. [read post]
23 May 2016, 9:45 am
"Addressing the 'Doctrine Gap': Professionalising the Use of Information Communication Technologies in Humanitarian Action," Humanitarian Exchange, no. 66 (April 2016) [full-text]Building Data Responsibility into Humanitarian Action, Think Brief, no. 18 (OCHA, May 2016) [text via HHI]"Communication of Information on the Thai-Burma Border," Forced Migration Review, no. 52 (May 2016) [open access]"EU Asks Tech Firms to Pitch Refugee-tracking… [read post]
19 May 2016, 12:55 pm
The hypothesis-generating questionnaire identified a common restaurant and dates of exposure: Burma Superstar restaurant on August 16 and 17. [read post]
18 May 2016, 9:08 am
The following month, Malaysia bombed out in the latest World Press Freedom Index, achieving a ranking of 146 out of 180 countries—lower than Burma (Myanmar). [read post]
