Burma Campaign UK
JOINT STATEMENT We, the undersigned trade unions, civil society, and human rights organisations from across the ASEAN region and international community, issue this urgent and unequivocal call to our governments ahead of the upcoming ASEAN Summit: outrightly reject the Myanmar military junta’s planned sham election. Anything less would be a betrayal of the people of …
At least 26 people died in Myanmar at a combined festival and protest against the brutal military junta, when a motor-powered paraglider (paramotor) dropped bombs. Northeast Bylines asked Zoya Phan from Burma Campaign UK for her comment on this paramotor bombing incident. Zoya said: “The Burmese military have been escalating airstrikes and military offensives across Burma in recent weeks …
Burma Campaign UK today called on the British government to resume imposing regular sanctions to cut revenue, arms and equipment to the Burmese military. It is almost a year since the British government imposed any new sanctions on the Burmese military. The last sanctions targeting the Burmese military were on 29th October 2024. Following the …
Aid agencies are warning that Rakhine State will soon see people starving, reports Northeast Bylines. As a result, the World Food Programme has issued an urgent appeal for more donations to avoid a “full-blown disaster”. Zoya Phan, BCUK’s Programme Director, told Northeast Bylines: “International donors must immediately reverse long term aid cuts to camps hosting Rohingya …
Open letter to: H.E. Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of ASEAN H.E. Dato’ Seri Utama Haji Mohamad bin Haji Hasan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, Chair of ASEAN 2025 H.E. Tan Sri Othman Hashim, the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar H.E. Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof, Minister of Foreign Affairs II of …
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has published its opinion on the case of the detention of Dr Linn Htut, Chief Minister of Shan State and a member of the National League for Democracy, who was arrested and detained by the Burmese military following the 2021 coup. It has ruled that his detention …