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On 11th September the British government pulled off quite a diplomatic coup at the UN Security Council. Following a closed door meeting on Burma, eight of the fifteen UN Security Council members issued a joint statement. The statement included the…

By Stephen Kinnock MP, Shadow Minister for Asia and the Pacific As the recently appointed Shadow Minister for Asia and the Pacific I have come to understand just how isolated and absent from the global stage consecutive Conservative governments have…

In our blog on 10 December, we wrote about why Aung San Suu Kyi may have decided to personally lead the defence against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Now that the first round…

By Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK Aung San Suu Kyi has once again managed to shock people around the world over her approach to the Rohingya crisis, this time by personally leading a team defending Burma at the…

Burma Campaign UK does not take party political positions or back any political parties. Our role is to persuade the government of the day to take the strongest possible action to support human rights and democracy in Burma, regardless of…

It is hard to overstate just how badly the international community has failed, and continues to fail, to stand up for the rights of the Rohingya. As the penholder on Burma at the United Nations Security Council and traditional lead…

By Mark Farmaner, Director, Burma Campaign UK The annual Myanmar trade and investment conference took place in London on Monday 18th March. It is a strange event. British government officials, Burmese government officials, companies from Burma and British companies in…

By Mark Farmaner The EU is considering sanctioning garment workers but has rejected sanctions against Min Aung Hlaing When the United Nations Fact Finding Mission published its report into human rights violations in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States, it was…

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visited Burma last week, and his approach was very different from his predecessor, Boris Johnson. Before his visit Jeremy Hunt met with members of the Rohingya community the UK, something Boris Johnson never bothered to do,…

When Min Aung Hlaing, head of the Burmese military, launched his pre-planned military offensive against Rohingya civilians last August, the majority of those he targeted were children. A new UNICEF report, Futures in the Balance, https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/UNICEF_Child_Alert_Rohingya_Aug_2018.pdf details the devastating impact…