Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK today called on European Union member states to urgently impose a new round of targeted economic sanctions on the Burmese military, and to agree to impose regular new rounds of sanctions from now on. It is now five months since the European Union brought in any new sanctions against the Burmese military. …
Media Release from Arakan Oil Watch A new report launched today by Arakan Oil Watch exposes that international oil and gas companies have expanded their operations in Burma since the coup, providing huge revenues to the regime, despite widespread calls for sanctions and the growing number of attacks against the military’s economic projects. Burma’s regime …
Joint letter from 259 organisations calling on INTERPOL to immediately ban the Myanmar military junta from representing Myanmar as a member of INTERPOL: 22 November 2021 To: Kim Jong Yang, INTERPOL President; Jürgen Stock, INTERPOL General Secretary; the INTERPOL Executive Committee and INTERPOL Member Countries Subject: Call on INTERPOL to ban the illegal junta from …
“I was 4 years old when my mom took me to meet my dad for the first time. I thought we were traveling to a park or a playground, but then we arrived outside Insein prison in Rangoon” writes Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, Burma Campaign UK’s Campaigns Officer, in CNN Opinion. “Since then, he has …
Despite several major accounting bodies around the world pulling out of the upcoming ASEAN Federation of Accountants’ conference in protest at the inclusion of the Myanmar junta’s auditor general as a keynote speaker, two UK accounting bodies say they will still attend. They are the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of …
Burma Campaign UK today called on the UK, US and EU to urgently implement further economic sanctions and take other steps, following the failure of the UN Security Council to agree effective action or even refer to the situation in North-Western Burma in a statement yesterday. The statement is available here. Burma Campaign UK and …