Burma Campaign UK
Media Release Women’s Groups around the World Call on the UNSC to Prosecute Senior General Than Shwe at the International Criminal Court 7 August 2009 The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) joined by sixty four leading women’s organizations sent a letter to the Secretary General and members of the United Nations Security Council calling for …
The Burma Campaign UK today expressed concern about new reports that Burma is trying to develop a nuclear bomb. The reports are detailed in the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. According to defectors, North Korea is helping Burma develop technology to build a nuclear bomb. There have been consistent reports about Burma’s nuclear ambitions for …
As Burma’s generals again delayed Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial, the Burma Campaign UK today called on the international community to take action now about the deteriorating human rights situation in Burma. The verdict of Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial may have been delayed, but human rights abuses continue, including the arrest of at least …
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, writing today in The Guardian newspaper in the UK, has called for a global arms embargo against Burma, accusing countries supplying arms to Burma of complicity with the atrocities being committed in the country. Tutu also called for a Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity and war crimes being committed in …
The Burma Campaign UK today called on governments and the United Nations to develop policy based on what is going on in the whole of Burma, not just on what happens to Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi has herself said that the international focus should not be on her alone. The Burma …
Media Release from the European Karen Network KAREN COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE FORM NEW EUROPEAN KAREN NETWORK (EKN) Karen communities from four European countries including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom have come together for the first time to form a new European Karen Network after a two-day conference held on 11th-12th July 2009 in …