Burma Campaign UK
As Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba visits the UK asking for support against the threat of invasion by the Russian dictatorship, Burma Campaign UK today accused him of hypocrisy for continuing to arm and equip the genocidal Burmese military. Dmytro Kuleba claims Ukraine is a bastion of support for human rights and democracy at the …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed an announcement by Facebook that they will finally take down the Facebook pages of military companies, reports the Eurasia Review. “By hosting military company pages Facebook helped the military make money which funded the international crimes they committed,” said Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK. “The belated decision to …
Wai Hnin Pwint Thon is a Burmese human rights activist and Burma Campaign UK’s Senior Advocacy Officer. She spoke at the prestigious Oslo Freedom Forum in Miami, Florida, as part of an advocacy trip to the USA. She also met with the US government and members of the US Senate lobbying for more targeted economic sanctions …
A lawsuit filed against Facebook seeks a minimum of U.S. $150 billion in damages for the social media company’s alleged role in stoking violence against ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar, reports Radio Free Asia. The lawsuit claims that Facebook created a “defective product” because its ranking algorithm helped to propagate violence against the Rohingya. It also …
Facebook has expanded its ban on postings linked to Myanmar’s military to include all pages, groups, and accounts representing military-controlled businesses, reports the Seattle Times. Burma Campaign UK welcomed the move but said Facebook had resisted taking down military companies’ pages. “The belated decision to remove military company pages appears more an act of desperation …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed an announcement by Facebook that they will finally take down the Facebook Pages of military companies. Burma Campaign UK has been calling on Facebook to take this step for many years, as have many Burmese civil society organisations. The Facebook announcement is available here: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/an-update-on-myanmar/ “For years Facebook resisted significant …