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Up to 160,000 Rohingya could be at risk of starvation and disease because of blocks on aid by the Burmese government and military. Call on UN Secretary General António Guterres to go to Burma to persuade the government and military to let the aid in. Take action
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Burma Campaign UK director Mark Farmaner said that Bangladesh is “effectively sentencing Rohingya to death” by refusing them entry. “They are fleeing violations of international law and Bangladesh has a responsibility to help. The international community should be pressuring Bangladesh to open its borders and accept international aid being offered to help Rohingya refugees,” Farmaner …
Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has told the BBC. Armed forces have been killing Rohingya in Rakhine state, forcing many to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, says John McKissick of the UN refugee agency. Read full story
Burma Campaign UK today delivered 3164 signatures on a petition calling on the NLD-led government in Burma to take four key steps to start to address the Rohingya crisis in Burma. Read more
Burma Campaign UK team with student leaders from All Burma Federation Of Student Unions. Thank you to Moe Htet Nay, Min Thawe Thit, Honey Oo and Thiha Win Tin for visiting us and sharing your campaigning work with us.
In answer to Lord Alton’s question on the upsurge in violence against Rohingya Muslims by the Burmese military, Baroness Anelay said: We condemn the attacks on 9 October in northern Rakhine and the killing of nine Burmese Border Guard policemen. Read full answer
BCUK at the British Parliament in a meeting with MP from Burma Susanna Hla Hla Soe and the Rt Hon John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons.
BBC News reports that pressure is growing on Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate claims that the Burmese army has been abusing Muslim civilians. Four weeks ago militants from the Rohingya Muslim minority killed nine policemen. Since then the army has shut down the area, and reports have followed of extra-judicial …
Burma Campaign UK team with Andy Hall, a Human rights defender working for the rights of migrants in Thailand, including migrants from Burma. The Supreme Court of Thailand has finally dismissed a criminal defamation case against Andy Hall after almost 4 years. Read more on the campaign to drop the charges against Andy Hall.
Mark Farmaner, Director at Burma Campaign UK, commented on the New York Declaration to Radio Free Asia: “The declaration has welcome aspirations but no mechanisms for monitoring and implementation,” he told RFA. “There should be a binding convention on the rights and treatment of IDPs, with monitoring and public annual reports naming and shaming countries …
Burma Campaign UK’s Zoya Phan with students at Oxford International Relations Society after a discussion on human rights in Burma at Oxford University.
Our call for the EU to continue the UN General Assembly resolution on human rights in Burma is covered by the Myanmar Times: Pressure is growing on the European Union to again table a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution critical of Myanmar’s human rights record, after the EU signalled last week that the 28-nation bloc …
Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, joined calls for maintaining a tough line on human rights at the UN General Assembly. “Discontinuing the resolution will encourage the military to believe they can continue to commit human rights violations and block constitutional reform without any consequences,” he told The Myanmar Times. Read full article
More than 100 political prisoner remain in jail. Take action here.
This article in Myanmar Times quotes Zoya Phan, Campaigns Manager at Burma Campaign UK: “The US imposed sanctions in response to human rights violations, and they are still taking place,” Zoya Phan, a political activist from the Burma Campaign UK, told The Myanmar Times. “Lifting sanctions will just encourage the Myanmar military to think they …
At the TUC working with our trade union brothers and sisters in solidarity on human rights abuses in Burma.
From The Myanmar Times: “Several staff members from Burma Campaign UK believe they are still enumerated on the list as they have not yet been informed of their removal. In June, Burma Campaign UK wrote to the government asking for confirmation of which staff members remain on the roster and which have been removed. “The …
Zoya Phan, Campaigns Manager at Burma Campaign UK, with students and professor from University College London (UCL), after a talk on human rights in Burma.
Interesting article in the Asia Sentinel: “We need to learn from the history of the KIO’s 17 years ceasefire agreement with the Burmese military,” said Lum Zawng, a lawyer and General secretary of All Kachin Youth Union. “They [the army] always demanded to disarm first and accept the 2008 Constitution, but no ethnic armed organization …
In Karen News: A group of 19 community based organizations has called for an official investigation into the destruction of religious buildings in Burma. The statement was signed on behalf of a range of ethnic and human rights groups both local and international including Burma Campaign UK, Fortify Rights, and the Kachin Women’s Association of …
Burma Campaign UK quoted in the Daily Mail: “Meanwhile, the generals continue to wage war against several ethnic groups, who rose up against the central government following Myanmar’s independence from Britain in 1948. Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, said his group has received more reports of atrocities by the military in Kachin and …
Zoya Phan, Campaigns Manager at Burma Campaign UK, gave this speech at the opening of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Park in Froland, Norway on 19 June 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday: Ladies and gentlemen, I can’t tell you how much it means to me to be here today and to see people so …
Our campaign to free Lahpai Gam, an ethnic Kachin farmer illegally imprisoned since 2012, is featured in Mizzima News: The Burma Campaign UK has called for the NLD-led government to abide by the United Nations ruling that Lahpai Gam is detained illegally and release him immediately, according to a statement on 26 May. Lahpai Gam …