Speaking at University College London
Zoya Phan, Campaigns Manager at Burma Campaign UK, with students and professor from University College London (UCL), after a talk on human rights in Burma.
Zoya Phan, Campaigns Manager at Burma Campaign UK, with students and professor from University College London (UCL), after a talk on human rights in Burma.
Interesting article in the Asia Sentinel: “We need to learn from the history of the KIO’s 17 years ceasefire agreement with the Burmese military,” said Lum Zawng, a lawyer and General secretary of All Kachin Youth Union. “They [the army] always demanded to disarm first and accept the 2008 Constitution, but no ethnic armed organization …
In Karen News: A group of 19 community based organizations has called for an official investigation into the destruction of religious buildings in Burma. The statement was signed on behalf of a range of ethnic and human rights groups both local and international including Burma Campaign UK, Fortify Rights, and the Kachin Women’s Association of …
Burma Campaign UK quoted in the Daily Mail: “Meanwhile, the generals continue to wage war against several ethnic groups, who rose up against the central government following Myanmar’s independence from Britain in 1948. Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, said his group has received more reports of atrocities by the military in Kachin and …
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), together with over ten other organisations working for human rights in Burma, today calls on the government of Burma to take urgent action to protect vulnerable religious minorities in the country, following two recent violent attacks on Muslims. On 1 July, a mosque was destroyed by a mob in Hpakant township …
On June 23, a violent group of people destroyed a mosque in Thaye Thamain village, Bago Region, and on July 1, a similar mob of people destroyed a Muslim prayer hall in Lone Khin village, Kachin State. In each of these cases, the authorities have failed to hold perpetrators accountable. We, the undersigned organizations, call …