Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK has called on five British insurance companies to stop covering aviation fuel deliveries to Myanmar following the airstrike on Sagaing Region that caused an estimated 168 deaths, reports the Irrawaddy. “Any company involved in the supply chain delivering aviation fuel to Burma is potentially complicit in airstrikes against civilians and should stop …
The G7 just issued a communiqué which condemned airstrikes, and called for an arms embargo and the release of all political prisoners, writes Burma Campaign UK\’s Director Mark Farmaner for the Democratic Voice of Burma. However, the foreign ministers didn’t pledge to do a single thing about the human rights violations they condemn, or the …
The UK Parliament today held a Westminster Hall debate on human rights in Myanmar. Rushanara Ali MP, the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Burma, said “I welcome some of the steps that our Government have taken, but the fact remains that sanctions against the Burmese military’s sources of incomes are too slow to …
Myanmar’s junta has granted amnesty to 3,015 prisoners to mark the Burmese New Year, reports Radio Free Asia, but only one political prisoner was among them. “If any political prisoners have been released it is obviously good news for them and their families, but there are still thousands of political prisoners in jail. None of …
Burma Campaign UK’s Amy Rosenberg at the NASUWT conference this weekend. Many thanks to NASUWT, the teachers’ union, for their continuing support.
“Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma”, by Zoya Phan, our Programme Director, will be featuring at Kivu Immigration Law’s Summer Book Club, reports The Globe. Selected books will center around immigration and international conflict and will feature nationalities and cultures that are represented in Worthington, Minnesota, USA. “Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom …