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24 Aug 2013, 8:42 pm
Commission on International Religious Freedom yesterday issued the findings of a staff visit to Burma in May. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 9:05 pm
The thousands of non-violent protestors in Burma (many of them in the above video) are a true inspiration. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 7:00 am
(Refugees International, Nov. 2014) [text]Protection and Security Concerns in South East Burma/Myanmar (Border Consortium, Nov. 2014) [text]Seminar: Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism on the Thai-Burma Border [Book event], Oxford, 29 Oct. 2014 [info]- Follow link for podcast.Three Approaches to Gender in Humanitarian Aid: Findings from a Study of Humanitarian Aid to Refugees in Thailand and Bangladesh (Umeå University, 2014) [text]A Volcano and… [read post]
27 May 2015, 8:09 am
Said Ashin Wirathu, the leader of Burma’s 969 movement, quoted in a WaPo article titled "The serene-looking Buddhist monk accused of inciting Burma’s sectarian violence. [read post]
8 Apr 2013, 9:30 pm
I explain why this dynamic of escalation occurred and how colonial officials in Burma utilized a courtroom to transform tenuous fictions of tattooing into a seemingly coherent fact about Burma. [read post]
13 Apr 2009, 9:00 am
Human Rights - The United Nations has stated, for the first time, that the detention of pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi by the military regime of Myanmar (Burma) was in violation of not only international but also domestic... [read post]
25 Jul 2009, 3:05 pm
A cyclone hit Myanmar (Burma) in May 2008, devastating large portions of the Irawaddy Delta and creating a humanitarian crisis. [read post]
6 Sep 2009, 6:09 am
Mission of Burma is back. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 5:13 pm
Empires and dynasties galore in the history of Burma, our "History of" country today. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 1:37 pm
Guest blogger: Tadios Belay. master of laws student (LLM), University of San Francisco A few months ago, I had a chance to interview an immigrant from Burma who left his country of origin at the age of eleven. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 1:50 am
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations 2009 The Burma/Myanmar (Financial Restrictions) Regulations 2009 The M3 and M25 (Thorpe Interchange) (Speed Limit) Regulations 2009 Source: www.opsi.gov.uk [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 11:44 am
News reports indicate that the United States Congress voted yesterday to authorize the extension of the U.S. sanctions program on Myanmar (Burma) for one year with the possibility of extension for up to three more years. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 6:29 pm
First, courtesy of Improbable Research, is an English translation of the oath taken in Burma. [read post]
14 May 2010, 9:00 am
Elections - In the view of Human Rights Watch, the new election laws issued in Myanmar (Burma) in March 2010 by the ruling military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SDPC) "are designed to exclude the main... [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 9:25 am
Among the panels being offered is one on the persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar (Burma),, the Muslim minority described as... [read post]
25 May 2008, 1:13 pm
The scale of the disasters in China and Burma --like the tsunami of 2006-- challenge our ability to actually understand what has happened in those places.When we read that 10,000 school children died in the China quake,... [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 7:50 am
Economic Sanctions Against Burma – See U.S. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 9:00 am
“I Want to Help My Own People”: State Control and Civil Society in Burma after Cyclone Nargis (Human Rights Watch, April 2010) [text]Locked Up But Not Forgotten: Opening Access to Family & Community in the Immigration Detention System (NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic et al., April 2010) [text via NYT] - See related NYT article.Migrant Smuggling Issue Papers (UNODC, April 2010) [access]- Two titles currently available.Non-written Languages and Refugee Research… [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 11:09 am
Background Since 1997, the United States has prohibited new investment in Burma by U.S. persons, and U.S. persons’ facilitation of new investment in Burma by foreign persons. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 2:02 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The country name thread has led to another iteration of the Burma/Myanmar debate, and its broader version: Even setting aside the special case of Burma, where the Myanmar name was chosen by the ruling junta, do we have some good manners / sound usage obligation to change the English names for foreign countries (or foreign cities) to follow local pronunciation? [read post]
