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20 Jan 2015, 1:56 pm
On August 30, a joint press release was issued by SFDPH and Burma Superstar in order to inform the public and assist in case finding. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 1:17 pm
Egypt has a very well-developed economy with a significant reliance on the internet, this is very different from Burma. [read post]
8 Jan 2011, 10:21 am
Hoping to blog with impunity in Burma? [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 12:56 pm
Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued General License 20 for Myanmar (Burma) on December 7, 2015, which authorizes certain trade related transactions that were previously prohibited due to the role of sanctioned parties in the country’s ports and other trade infrastructure. [read post]
29 Dec 2007, 10:13 pm
Protests in Burma and around the world - the saffron protests captured the imagination and highlighted Burma's military junta and its opposition to pro-democracy forces. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 8:34 pm
-sanctioned parties (ie Cuba, Burma, Sudan, Libya and Iran) in more than 20,000 financial and trade transactions routed through third-party banks located in the United States between 2002 and 2007. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 2:00 am
In The Nation, Joshua Kurlantzick reviews two books by Thant Myint-U: The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma, "a compelling blend of memoir and Burmese history," and the policy-oriented sequel, Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia.This week, the New York Times features Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (Doubleday), by Richard Rhodes. [read post]
25 Jul 2022, 5:57 am
In cases like Burma and Ethiopia, we can point to consistently high rankings in the years before mass killings began. [read post]
18 Aug 2012, 12:09 pm
[JURIST] Myanmar president Thein Sein [BBC profile] on Friday announced the creation of a 27-member commission tasked with investigating the cause of the sectarian violence between Rohingya Muslims and Rakhine Buddhists. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 10:46 am
[JURIST] Myanmar's army is still committing human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in Karen state, according to a report [text PDF; press release] released Monday by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) [advocacy website]. [read post]
3 May 2014, 8:01 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] called on Myanmar [press release] Saturday to pass more protective media laws and end arbitrary arrests of journalists. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 1:30 pm
For instance, the British in Burma used a template borrowed from Bengal that used religion to categorize opium consumers, which placed 90% of the population, the Buddhist majority, in a single box, until excise administrators adjusted the uninformative template to separately label Burmese, Chinese, Indian and others. [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 11:00 am
This in turn will often lead you to an eprint in an institutional repository:Example: Search for "Unpacking the Micro–Macro Nexus: Narratives of Suffering and Hope among Refugees from Burma Recently Settled in Australia" in Google Scholar. - In the results list, click on the link to "All 5 versions" under the top entry.- The second of the five versions listed links to "eprints.qut.edu.au" which is the institutional repository for the Queensland… [read post]
4 Feb 2023, 4:55 am
Since the coup, security forces in Myanmar, also known as Burma, have detained more than 17,600 pro-democracy activists, human rights defenders and their supporters and killed more than 2,900 civilians, according to the nongovernmental Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.The military has waged indiscriminate ground and air attacks on civilians in villages. [read post]
20 May 2022, 6:00 am
Opportunities:Panel discussion: Accounting for Australia’s refugee policy – from the Tampa to tomorrow, 24 May 2022 [info]Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture: Bordering and Ordering among Refugees from Burma/Myanmar, 25 May 2022 [info]Call for applications: New Zealand Refugee Advisory Panel [info]- Deadline is 12 June 2022.Blog posts & press:"For desperate Afghans, risky crossings into Iran are worth chancing," The New Humanitarian, 17 May 2022 [text]"How… [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]
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]
16 Apr 2019, 3:15 pm
[web]- Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) [web] [Facebook]- Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration (ADFM) [web]- Online Burma/Myanmar Library (a rich archive of online materials) [web]Related post:- Regional Focus: Asia - Pt. 1 (16 April 2019)Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools. [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 11:06 am
People in marginalized communities who are targets of persecution and violence—from the Rohingya in Burma to Native Americans in North Dakota—are using social media to tell their stories, but finding that their voices are being silenced online. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 6:45 am
Petition: UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Committee: Consider Barbara Harrell-Bond for the Nansen Refugee Award [info]- Note: Nominations for the Nansen Award are due by 8 February 2019.Job announcement: PhD Fellow, "Making Refugee Integration Sustainable: In Search of Durable Relations with Host Populations in Uganda," Mbarara Univ. of Science and Technology & Univ. of Antwerp [info]- Apply by 11 February 2019.Panel discussion: Emergency Resettlement: From One Saudi Teen to Millions… [read post]
