Is Germany Siding With Burma To Downplay Human Rights Abuses?
February 20, 2013
Members of the European Burma Network today called on Germany to come clean over whether it is working behind the scenes to have Burma downgraded as a priority for the...
Ban Ki-moon Urged To Act For Release of All Political Prisoners
February 15, 2013
Burma Campaign UK today called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to use his influence to ensure that the new committee set up to review political prisoner cases genuinely addresses...
Kachin farmer arrested and tortured in Burma– Free Mading Zau Bawk!
February 8, 2013
Burma Campaign UK today called for the immediate release of Mading Zau Bawk and other remaining political prisoners in Burma. Mading Zau Bawk is a 23-year-old Kachin farmer who was...
Burma Political Prisoner Committee Welcome, But Serious Questions Remain
February 7, 2013
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed the announcement by the office of President Thein Sein that a Committee will be formed to review political prisoner cases in Burma. The formation of...
British MPs Support Rohingya Motion In Parliament
February 5, 2013
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed Early Day Motion 838 on Burma, tabled by members of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Democracy in Burma (APPG Burma). So far 57 MPs...
Campaigners criticise ‘premature’ Burma debt cancellation
January 28, 2013
Media Release from Jubilee Debt Campaign UK Campaigners criticise ‘premature’ Burma debt cancellation $5.9 billion to be written-off and new loans to military dictatorship to begin. Western countries, in a...
European Burma groups condemn the ongoing attacks on the Kachin people
January 21, 2013
Statement by Members and Observers of the European Burma Network on the ongoing attacks by the Burma Army against the Kachin people We, the undersigned members and observers of the...
Urgent Call on ASEAN to help halt intensifying conflict in Kachin state in Burma
January 19, 2013
We are movements and organizations calling on the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to add its voice and heed mounting international calls for an immediate stop to the...
January political prisoners of the month have been released
January 18, 2013
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed the release of Aung Hmine San, Than Htike, Min Naing Lwin and Thein Aung Myint who were arrested for protesting without permission. However, Burma Campaign...
A protest law with genuine rights and freedom is needed in Burma
January 16, 2013
Burma Campaign UK today urged the Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire MP to call in the Burmese ambassador to Britain to question him regarding why people are still being arrested...