Campaign News

VOA News reports on the rise of heroin addiction in jade mining areas along the Chinese border in Kachin State. Corruption is rife in the region.  Some law and mining officials illegally distribute the drug, which is largely smuggled in…

Radio Free Asia reports that residents of northern Shan state’s Pa-O Autonomous Region are up in arms over the Burmese government’s decision to extend the operation period of a Chinese-owned coal-fired power plant that they say has exceeded land use…

Burma Campaign UK today joins the climate strike. Burma is the second most vulnerable country in the world to climate change. Anna Roberts, Mark Farmaner and Karin Valtersson at the climate strike

The European Parliament today called on the EU to lead on referring Burma to the International Criminal Court. The current EU position is that it does not support a referral and the EU and EU External Action Service have a…

A new cross-party report by British MPs, two years on from the Rohingya crisis, is out today. It highlights the need for the British government to push for ICC referral, sanctions on military companies, a stronger position on Rohingya citizenship,…

Doug Janke, Head of Development, on Burma Campaign UK’s stall at this week’s Trades Union Congress in Brighton. Thank you to the TUC for supporting human rights and democracy in Burma. Doug Janke with the TUC’s General Secretary Frances O’Grady

Eminent Burmese filmmaker and rights activist Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who was sentenced to one year in prison for criticizing the military-drafted 2008 Constitution and the military’s role in politics, has drawn the attention of international organizations, says India’s Face2News. Face2News reports on…

Burma Campaign UK’s Executive Director Anna Roberts and Campaigns Officer Wai Hnin were at Vale Earth Fair in Guernsey this Bank Holiday weekend. Vale Earth Fair have been supporting Burma Campaign UK for many years. Anna Roberts and Wai Hnin at Vale Earth Fair

Nearly 40 international firms including US tech giants Google and Apple, as well as Britain’s Peel Group, China’s Huawei and Japanese financial services company JCB have been added to Burma Campaign UK’s “Dirty List” for doing business with the military,…

A Belgian company has become the first to announce it is cutting ties with the Burmese military after a United Nations fact-finding mission called on businesses to sever all financial links to the country’s generals. Satellite communications firm Newtec said it…