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Burma Campaign UK today called on the NLD-led government to halt the prosecutions of the members of the Peacock Generation Thangyat group and to repeal repressive laws which are being used to keep human rights activists in jail. In April,…

A announcement by the European Union that it is considering suspending trade privileges for Burma has alarmed garment firms, which say hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk. Frontier Myanmar reports that the move has also puzzled human rights activists…

Burma’s powerful army should be removed from politics, UN investigators said in the final version of a damning report reiterating calls for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority. Their presence in parliament gives them an…

Karen communities worldwide join the call from Kachin and other ethnic people of Burma for the United Nations Security Council to refer Burma to the International Criminal Court. As long as members of the United Nations Security Council continue to…

In the face of atrocity crimes, ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and continuing attacks against other ethnic groups, the UK can no longer continue with ‘business as usual’ in its interactions with Burma. In a Report published today, MPs on the…

The Foreign Office has confirmed that Prince Charles will not visit Burma on his tour of southeast Asia and India later this month, reports the Democratic Voice of Burma. “To have someone of Prince Charles’s stature go to visit the…

Pakistan’s Daily Times reports that Mark Farmaner, Burma Campaign UK’s director, has urged St. Hugh’s College to confirm that the removal of Aung San Suu Kyi’s portrait is connected to her refusal to acknowledge the ongoing genocide against Rohingya Muslims….

Burma Campaign UK has called for an immediate halt to the British foreign aid training programmes that are provided for free to the Burmese military. ‘British taxpayers will be horrified to learn that their tax money is spent training an…

Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, Campaigns Officer at Burma Campaign UK, spoke today on women’s rights at an event in Parliament hosted by Catherine West MP, Shadow Foreign Minister, to mark International Women’s Day.