Burma Campaign UK
Press release by Burma Human Rights Network: The Burma Human Rights Network and 19 other Organizations have issued a letter to Burma’s State Chancellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, calling on the Burmese Government to ensure the rights of Burmese Muslims following a spate of anti-Muslim incidents inside the country. The incidents, many of them …
Joint Statement: Myanmar Authorities Must Immediately Release and Drop Charges Against three Detained Journalists We, the undersigned civil society organizations, condemn the arrest, detention and prosecution of six people, including three journalists, under the 1908 Unlawful Associations Act in Myanmar. We demand that these charges against them are dropped and that the three journalists are …
The Vale Earth Fair in Guernsey has been nominated for the Moonpig-sponsored Arts Contribution of the Year Award. The music festival is a charitable event run by volunteers and donates its profits to humanitarian causes such as the Burma Campaign UK. Read Guernsey Press article
Joint statement by 61 Myanmar and international human rights organizations Concerned by reports that the Myanmar authorities will retain the criminal defamation provision of Section 66(d) during a review of the Telecommunications Law, 61 national and international human rights organizations are urging the Myanmar authorities, and in particular the Ministry of Transport and Communication and …
Diplomats and international human rights groups have expressed concern for the three journalists arrested on Monday in Shan State. Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK, told the Democratic Voice of Burma: “Min Aung Hlaing must immediately release the seven people, including the three journalists, who he has detained. With hundreds of thousands of soldiers …
A shocking new report by Amnesty International into ongoing human rights violations in Kachin State and northern Shan State describes many of them as war crimes, the vast majority committed by the Burmese Army. Writing for the Huffington Post, Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK, calls on the British government to end its free …