Campaign News

Campaigners have called on the UK-based Portia Management Services to end its relationship with KT Services and Logistics, which leases the TMT Ports shipping terminal in Yangon from a military-owned company. Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, said: “As…

Today the British ambassador to Myanmar said: “The increased violence in Rakhine State over the past few days is causing misery for many of the people living there. Today’s reported shelling of a school on Myanmar’s Children’s Day, following recent…

Qatar’s Peninsula newspaper reports on the ruling by the International Court of Justice ordering Burma to take all possible measures to prevent genocide against the Rohingya – and the loss by Aung San Suu Kyi of “the remaining shreds of…

The United Nations’ top court has ordered Burma to do all it can to prevent genocide against the Rohingya people, reports the New York based Associated Press. Anna Roberts, executive director of Burma Campaign UK, called the order “a major…

The New York Times reports on the International Court of Justice at The Hague’s ruling that Burma must take action to protect Rohingya Muslims, who have been killed and driven from their homes in what the country’s accusers call a…

Frontier Myanmar’s new daily email briefing reports on Burma Campaign UK’s new “boycott list” encouraging consumers and companies to avoid military-linked businesses. “Buying goods and services from the military increases their revenue and this revenue is used to fund their operations,…

MPs today debated the foreign policy priorities set out by the new British government. Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry MP called out Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “shameful inaction in holding Myanmar to account for its genocidal treatment of the…

The Irrawaddy Business Roundup reports that Western Union, a US-based global financial transfer service, has cut ties with the military–owned Myawaddy Bank in light of accusations that the military is responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. In December…

Western Union announced this week that the company decided to stop using Myawaddy Bank, owned by the military, as one of its agents. The bank has come under fire for the relationship given that the Myanmar military has been accused…

After U.S.-based Western Union terminated its agent contract with Myawaddy Bank, a Burmese military spokesman played down the effect that the decision would have, according to a report by Radio Free Asia. Western Union was one of about 80 companies…