Aung San Suu Kyi to spend 62nd Birthday under house arrest
June 15, 2007
On Tuesday 19th June Aung San Suu Kyi will spend her 62nd birthday in detention. On that day she will have spent a total of 11 years and 238 days...
UN Declares Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s Detention Illegal
June 1, 2007
Washington, D.C. A Press Release from FREEDOM NOW Today, Freedom Now released a strongly-worded ruling from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention finding that Aung San Suu Kyi is...
Aung San Suu Kyi’‘s Detention Extended Again
May 25, 2007
Burma’s brutal military dictatorship today defied calls from the UN, USA, EU and ASEAN to release Aung San Suu Kyi, instead extending her detention under house arrest. Her latest period...
59 Former Heads of State Call For Release Of World’s Only Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
May 15, 2007
Press Release The Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights Letter Calls on Military Regime to Respond to United Nations (Oslo and New York, May 15th) Today, former Norwegian Prime...
Burma’s Salween dams threaten over half a million lives downstream
May 8, 2007
A press release by the Mon Youth Progressive Organization Over half a million city residents, farmers, and fisher folk living at the mouth of the Salween River in Burma stand...
Chin women reveal further evidence of state-sanctioned rape in Burma
March 27, 2007
Press Release by Women’s League of Chinland Chin women reveal further evidence of state-sanctioned rape in Burma, urge India to stop arming Burma’s junta A new report by the Women’s...
India Faces Global Protests Over Burma Policy
March 26, 2007
Click here for photo India today faces an international day of protest over its support for Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. Action will be taking place in 16 countries including, Australia,...
MK ONE faces Boycott over Burma Links
March 16, 2007
The Burma Campaign UK today called on mkone to stop sourcing clothes from Burma, or face a boycott campaign, to be launched on Saturday 17th March, atmkone Brighton store. A protest will take...
MK ONE Stop Sourcing From Burma
March 16, 2007
The Burma Campaign UK welcomed an undertaking by mkone to stop sourcing clothes from Burma. The Burma Campaign UK had planned to launch a boycott campaign on Saturday 17th March,...
Women directly targeted in Burmese regime’s terror campaign in Karen State
February 12, 2007
A new report by the Karen Women’s Organisation, State of Terror, provides graphic evidence of the widespread terror tactics being employed by the military regime’s troops against women across Burma’s Karen...