Burma Campaign UK
As France prepares to celebrate Bastille Day on Thursday, 134 MPs have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling on French oil giant TOTAL Oil to pull out of Burma. TOTAL Oil – the fourth largest oil company in the UK – is the largest European investor in Burma. At the same time, Burmese communities …
Burmese communities in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia will urge the French government to end its protection of Burma’s military junta. The call comes before Bastille Day (July 14) when France celebrates its revolution and the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris. Burmese communities are protesting France’s veto of EU economic sanctions against …
On Monday 24th October 2005 Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma’s democracy movement, will have spent a total of 10 years in detention. On this day the Burma Campaign UK will publish a report highlighting the disparity between the supportive words of world leaders towards Aung San Suu Kyi, and the lack of effective …
John Jackson is to step down as Co-Director of the Burma Campaign UK as of July 15th. John is a founder member of the Burma Campaign UK, and has worked as a full-time Director since 1998. He will remain on the Board. John will be joining MTV to work on a global initiative on HIV/AIDS …
Photocall and Media Opportunity – Saturday 18 June 2005 11.00am: Official ceremony – City Chambers. Ceremony to award Suu Kyi Freedom of the City at the City Chambers, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 11.45am: Photo opportunity and interviews – City Chambers. As Aung San Suu Kyi is confined to a now dilapidated, two-storey house sealed …
On Sunday 19th June 2005 Aung San Suu Kyi will be 60 years old. It will be her 3,523rd day in detention (9 years & 238 days). There is currently no prospect of her being released. PROTEST AT BURMESE EMBASSY – LONDON Friday 17th June, 12-2pm, 19a Charles St, London. Nearest tube Green Park. Demonstration …
MPs will discuss the human rights situation in Burma in a debate in the House of Commons today. The debate, to be held in Westminster Hall debating chamber, was called by John Bercow MP, joint chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Democracy in Burma. The debate starts at 2.30pm, and ends at 4pm. It …
New Technology Allows Modern “Berlin Wall” Concerts Aimed At Supporting Human Rights Popular music artists R.E.M. will dedicate a song at its June 19th concert in Dublin, Ireland to the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi. The song will be broadcast via satellite television inside the Southeast Asian country of …
We wish to use this opportunity, on the occasion of Aung San Suu Kyi’s 60th birthday, to reaffirm our solidarity with the people of Burma and their legitimate struggle for democracy, human rights and civilian rule. Our sister Laureate has spent almost 15 years under house arrest. Her determination and courage inspire us. We offer …
Dear Prime Minister Not long before your 1997 election victory, you wrote a personal letter to Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi. In that letter you invited her to Labour’s pre-election party conference. You said: “While I appreciate the difficulties that you may have in leaving Burma, we would be …
On Friday 10th June at 2pm Prime Minister Tony Blair will receive a letter from a delegation of high profile women calling on him to do all he can to secure Suu Kyi’s release. The delegation is being led by Glenys Kinnock MEP. Other members of the delegation include Prunella Scales, Jo Brand, and Marie …
On Sunday 19th June 2005 Aung San Suu Kyi will be 60 years old. It will be her 3,523rd day in detention (9 years & 238 days). There is currently no prospect of her being released. To coincide with the birthday, the Burma Campaign UK and other Burma campaign groups around the world are organising …
At its AGM on Tuesday 17th May, the board of TOTAL Oil will face questions about its involvement in Burma. In addition, campaigners in the USA will demonstrate outside the French Embassy and 5 Consulates, attacking France’s ‘blood for gas’ foreign policy on Burma. In Holland a report will be published detailing the role TOTAL …
DAMIEN RICE & LISA HANNIGAN SINGLE: ‘UNPLAYED PIANO’ RELEASE DATE: JUNE 20 LIVE: LONDON PALLADIUM Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan are to release ‘Unplayed Piano’ as a single on June 20 in support of the Free Aung San Suu Kyi 60th Birthday Campaign, a global initiative to free the Burmese Nobel Peace Prize recipient on …
We asked all the main UK political parties for their policy on Burma. We received the following responses. In alphabetical order Conservative Party Burma: Labour’s Failure. The British Government promised that the international community ‘will not stand idly by’ (Foreign Office minister Mike O’Brien, Press Release, 19 June 2003) in the face of continued suffering …
Tutu calls for international action Campaigners Organise Global Day of Action to Free World’s Only Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Recipient On Her 60th Birthday “As long as she remains under arrest, none of us is truly free,” says South Africa’s Desmond Tutu. (Washington, DC, London and Bangkok) Sixty days before the 60th birthday of the …
Media Release from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Democracy in Burma 289 MPs call for UN action on Burma A Commons Early Day Motion (EDM) supporting Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and calling on the British government to put Burma on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council, has gained more support …
The Burma Campaign UK today warned that ChevronTexaco’s purchase of UNOCAL means it could become a target of human rights campaigners. UNOCAL has significant investments in military ruled Burma. ChevronTexaco’s $18bn takeover of UNOCAL will make the company a partner of Burma’s military regime in the Yadana gas project in Burma. Earlier this year a …
Democracy groups banned from meeting MEPs demand enquiry The Burma Campaign UK today condemned the European Commission for banning pro-democracy organisations from a European Union conference on democracy in Burma. EU ‘Burma Day’, held in Brussels on Tuesday 5th April, is meant to be discussing prospects for democratic change in military run Burma. Instead the …
Aon Corporation, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, has informed the Burma Campaign UK it is terminating all business in Burma. Aon featured on the ‘Dirty List’ of companies directly or indirectly funding the regime in Burma, which is published by the Burma Campaign UK. The company will now be removed from …
EUROPEAN BURMA NETWORK Statement from the European Burma Network meeting at the offices of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva, 19-20 March 2005 Recalling that the European Union meeting in Ireland in April 2004 had set minimum standards in order for the EU to consider that the current National Convention convened by the ruling State Peace …
On Monday 21st February the Burma Campaign UK publishes a hard-hitting new report exposing how oil giant TOTAL plays a crucial role in funding and protecting Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. The report Totalitarian Oil – TOTAL Oil: Fuelling the oppression in Burma, coincides with the launch of a global campaign against the company, supported by 40 …
Message from Prime Minister Tony Blair The UK has been at the forefront of efforts over many years to draw attention to the extent of abuse in Burma, and to bring pressure to bear on the military regime to reform. We are actively working with our European and international partners, as well as through the …
Over 70 celebrities and politicians are backing a new public awareness campaign asking people not to holiday in Burma because of human rights concerns. The new campaign “I’m Not Going”, is being launched on Tuesday 1st February 2005. “The best role in the world wouldn’t get me to Burma,” said Anna Friel, one of the …