Burma Campaign UK
On International Women’s Day, 110 high profile women, including Dame Judi Dench, Annie Lennox, Jo Brand, Gillian Anderson, Imelda Staunton, Julie Walters and Zoë Wanamaker, are standing with the women of Burma to end rape and sexual violence. In the pledge, the high profile women, who also include activists and politicians, have vowed to support: …
The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) is gravely concerned at the recent fighting in northern Shan State between the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), which has displaced over 5,000 civilians and is cleaving ethnic rifts among communities which have co-existed peacefully for generations. It is no coincidence …
Press release by the Shan State Farmers’ Network and Shan Human Rights Foundation The Shan State Farmers’ Network (SSFN) and the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) deplore renewed attempts by gold mining companies to buy the silence of villagers impacted by toxic mining waste in eastern Shan State, instead of responding to their demands to …
Burma Campaign UK today urged the Minister of Home Affairs, Lt Gen Ko Ko, for the immediate release of Nilar Thein and to reform the Prisoners of Conscience Affairs Committee. On 24th February 2016, Nilar Thein was arrested by police from Bayinnaung Police Station in Rangoon for allegedly supporting student protests against the controversial Education …
Media Release from Save the Salween Network Yangon, February 22, 2016 Plans to build dams on the Salween River, started by the previous military regime, have recently been accelerated by U Thein Sein’s government, which, on February 2, 2016, without informing or consulting Burma’s citizens, signed an agreement with China allowing implementation of 18 out …
Media release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK today publishes a new briefing paper calling on the NLD-led government, which will take power in April, to take four practical steps to start addressing human rights violations against the Rohingya. The briefing paper is available on BROUK’s website here: Practical steps …
Burma Campaign UK welcomes the release of around 52 political prisoners this week. Burma Campaign UK has been welcoming the release of political prisoners in Burma for more than 20 years. Burma Campaign UK condemns the sentencing this week of Patrick Kum Jaa Lee for six months for a Facebook post he denies even making. …
Press release by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) and Legal Aid Network (LAN) A new report exposes the systematic cover-up of the Myanmar Army’s involvement in the rape-murder of two Kachin teachers in Kawng Kha village, northern Shan State, exactly one year ago. “Justice Delayed, Justice Denied” by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) …
Urgent update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation The Shan Human Rights Foundation strongly condemns the Burma Army shelling and aerial bombing of Mong Nawng town in central Shan State between November 9 and 12, 2015. The firing of shells and bombs directly into the centre of this densely populated town of 6,000 people, damaging …
Burma Campaign UK is calling on members of the United Nations Security Council to take up the issue of increased Burmese Army military offensives in Shan State and Kachin State when they discuss the situation in Burma this morning. The meeting is being held to discuss the results of the election held on 8th November. …
Burma Campaign UK today described the draft UN General Assembly Resolution on the situation of human rights in Burma as not reflecting the scale and seriousness of the human rights situation on the ground, or the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar. The Resolution fails to put …
Statement by Shan Community Based Organisations Shan Community Based Organisations (CBOs) strongly denounce the current military offensive by Naypyidaw in central Shan State, which has caused civilian injury and displaced over 6,000 villagers since it began one month ago on October 6. This large scale military operation, involving 14 battalions, heavy artillery and fighter jets, …
From Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK), Restless Beings, Burmese Muslim Association UK, Bradford Rohingya Community UK and Burma Campaign UK. 100 people joined a protest at the British Foreign Office today calling on the British government to support a UN Commission of Inquiry into possible genocide against the Rohingya of Burma. The protest comes three …
We, the undersigned organizations, call for Lt. Gen. Ko Ko, Myanmar’s Minister of Home Affairs and Minister for Immigration and Population, to be held accountable for his involvement in human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. On November 6, 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council will review Myanmar’s human rights record during …
Burma Campaign UK is calling on the British government to back a UN Commission of Inquiry into the human rights situation in Rakhine State, Burma. Last week a major report came out which found ‘strong evidence’ that genocide is being committed against the ethnic Rohingya of Burma. The report, a legal analysis by the Lowenstein …
Burma Campaign UK today publishes a new briefing paper – Burma’s 2015 Elections and the 2008 Constitution, containing detailed analysis of what is likely to happen after election day, the process of the elections, and key election statistics. The briefing paper is available here. Key points from the briefing include: Regardless of who wins the …
Burma Campaign UK today urged President Thein Sein to immediately release Patrick Kum Jaa Lee and all other political prisoners in Burma. On 14th October, Kachin activist Patrick Kum Jaa Lee was arrested without a warrant and taken to Hlaing Township police station for questioning. He was arrested for allegedly sharing a picture of an …
Everyone at Burma Campaign UK was very sad to hear the news that our Patron and friend, Sue Lloyd Roberts has died. Sue was an absolute force of nature, determined to overcome any obstacles to report from some of the most remote and difficult places in the world. In the 1990s she went undercover to …
Statement by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) As President Thein Sein takes the spotlight at the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement this week, KWAT urges that he be challenged for his failure to seek justice in the case of the rape-murder of the two Kachin teachers last January. The facts of this heinous …
Burma Campaign UK is calling on Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire MP to ensure his department stops issuing misleading statements and instead explain why he has not asked the Burmese government to release British political prisoner Phil Blackwood. “When called out about abandoning a British political prisoner in a Burmese jail, the response of the …
Burma Campaign UK today accused Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire MP of failing in one of his most fundamental duties, the support and protection of British citizens overseas. Hugo Swire, the Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Burma, has abandoned Philip Blackwood, a British political prisoner serving hard labour in Burma’s notorious Insein Jail. Philip …
Press release from The Assistance Association of Political Prisoners (Burma) and Former Political Prisoners Society The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) and Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) jointly call for the release of all political prisoners prior to the signing of the National Ceasefire Agreement and the 2015 General Election, if national peace …
Media release from Campaign for Freedom of Information 140 media bodies, campaign groups and others [1] have written to the Prime Minister expressing ‘serious concern’ at the government’s approach to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. The organisations are particularly concerned at the Commission on Freedom of Information, announced on July 17th this year. They say …
Press release from ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) JAKARTA, 21 August 2015 – The Myanmar Parliament’s passage of two bills targeting religious minorities constitutes an attack on religious freedom and threatens to stoke inter-communal tensions and violence less than three months ahead of critical general elections, said ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) today. …