Free Burmese Interfaith Activists!
April 29, 2016
Burma Campaign UK today called for the immediate and unconditional release of Zaw Zaw Latt and Pwint Phyu Latt, and urged the Burmese government to reform the Prisoners of Conscience...
Fasting to protest against the imprisonment of U Gambira
April 26, 2016
By Veronica Pedrosa From midnight (BST) tonight for a week, I shall be fasting to protest against the continued unjust incarceration of former monk and Saffron Revolution leader U Gambira...
Saffron Revolution Leader Remains in Jail
April 22, 2016
Burma Campaign UK today called for the immediate and unconditional release of U Gambira, and all the remaining political prisoners in Burma. Please take action to free U Gambira here....
Fantastic News From Burma
April 21, 2016
Burma Campaign UK welcomes the release of around 180 political prisoners in the last two weeks. Burma Campaign UK has been campaigning for the release of political prisoners in Burma...
Burma Army expansion, abuses along Kokang-China border creating scores of “ghost villages”
April 21, 2016
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation Burma Army expansion and ongoing abuses since last year in mountainous areas along the Kokang-China border is making it impossible for tens of...
Rohingya boat sinking: NLD must lift all aid restrictions in Arakan State
April 19, 2016
Media Release From Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) Today a ferry boat with 65 Rohingya passengers including men, women, children and babies, sank at the entrance of Thay Choung river...
NLD led government must act to end Rohingya crisis
April 6, 2016
Statement by members of the European Burma Network Members of the European Burma Network (EBN) call upon the new government of Burma to act swiftly to start to address the...
New report calls for halt to Upper Yeywa dam and other planned dams on Namtu River
March 30, 2016
Press release by Shan Human Rights Foundation, Shan Sapawa Environmental Organisation and Shan State Farmers’ Network A new report launched today by Shan community groups calls for an immediate halt...
Naw Ohn Hla Remains in Jail
March 14, 2016
As part of a new campaign to highlight how several political prisoners are back in jail after having previously been released, Burma Campaign UK today called for the immediate and...
110 high profile women stand with the women of Burma to end rape and sexual violence
March 8, 2016
On International Women’s Day, 110 high profile women, including Dame Judi Dench, Annie Lennox, Jo Brand, Gillian Anderson, Imelda Staunton, Julie Walters and Zoë Wanamaker, are standing with the women...