Burma Campaign UK
The Burma Campaign UK is celebrating today after WPP confirmed it is to close its office in Burma. WPP acquired a subsidiary in Burma – Bates Myanmar – when it won its takeover battle for Cordiant Communications. As a result WPP had been added to a ‘Dirty List’ of companies supporting the regime in Burma …
Burma campaign groups across Europe are today joining forces to persuade Germany to support EU sanctions on Burma. Despite the recent massacre and crackdown in Burma, Germany is defying calls from Burma’s democracy movement and its EU partners for sanctions against the dictatorship. EU members have committed themselves to a joint foreign policy on Burma …
The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed news that Intrepid Travel is suspending trips to Burma. Intrepid Travel, an Australian travel company with offices in the UK, USA and Canada, had been boycotting Burma since 1999 but in March announced it was returning to Burma, citing improvements in human rights in the country. Intrepid Travel’s decision …
The Burma Campaign UK today publishes an updated version of its ‘Dirty List’ of companies whose operations are directly or indirectly helping to finance the military dictatorship in Burma. Advertising giant WPP, Ernst & Young, P&O Cruises, Deutsche Post, and Hutchison Whampoa subsidiaries Superdrug and 3 Mobile have all been added to the Burma Campaign’s …
The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed an announcement by Italian sportswear giant Lotto that it is to stop sourcing clothes from Burma. Clothing exports are an important source of income for Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. The Burma Campaign UK is campaigning to clean the high street of clothing sourced from Burma as part of its …
MEDIA ADVISORY – PHOTO OPPORTUNITY ON FRIDAY THE 8th AUGUST – THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF DEMOCRACY UPRISING IN BURMA – BURMESE EXILES WILL PROTEST IN PARLIAMENT SQ RELEASE OF BALLOONS 12noon. 8.8.88 was a momentous day in Burmese history. It was the day a mass uprising for democracy began. The uprising was brutally put down …