Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK has updated its Boycott List of products and services produced by companies owned by the Burmese military. The updated Boycott List is available here. The Boycott List enables people in Burma, and UN and aid agencies, embassies and corporations, to avoid buying goods and services from companies which help fund the Burmese …
Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ right charity Stonewall has been joined by 245 other organisations across the human rights, refugee, LGBTQ+ and women’s sectors in a powerful display of solidarity, following comments by the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, last week. The coalition, including organisations such as Amnesty, Oxfam, End Violence Against Women Coalition, Refugee Council and Women For Refugee Women, has written to UK Prime Minister, …
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not even raise Indian arms sales to the Burmese military when he met Prime Minister Modi at the G20 summit earlier this month, a response to a question in Parliament has revealed. It is the official foreign policy of the British government to advocate for an end to arms …
In what looks like a continuing downward trend of UK aid to Rohingya refugees, the UK government has recently announced only £3 million in humanitarian support to Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh. The total aid to Rohingya refugees halfway through this financial year is £16.9 million, which represents an 85% cut since 2019-2020. …
Open letter endorsed by 149 human rights organizations to all G20 leadership on the need to pressure Prime Minister Narenda Modi to allow full humanitarian access to refugees along the India-Burma border and stop arming the Burmese military ahead of the G20 summit. Your Excellencies, We, the undersigned 149 organizations are shocked, horrified, and appalled by …
As world leaders gather for the G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, Burma Campaign UK is calling on G20 members to put pressure on Prime Minister Modi over India arming, financing, and providing diplomatic support for the Myanmar/Burmese military. A report earlier this year by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation in …