Wai Hnin To Make Parachute Jump For Political Prisoners
October 19, 2012
On Saturday 20th October Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, Campaigns Officer at Burma Campaign UK, will be making a parachute jump from a plane two miles high to raise money for...
A community leader jailed in Burma – Free Tun Aung
October 12, 2012
Burma Campaign UK today called for the immediate release of Tun Aung and all remaining political prisoners in Burma. Tun Aung is a 65-year-old medical doctor and a respected community...
International donors spurn 60,000 displaced in Kachin control area on China border
October 2, 2012
Press release by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand International donors have failed dismally to respond to humanitarian needs of about 60,000 Kachin villagers displaced along the China border since conflict...
Burma Prisoner Release Public Relations, Not Reform
September 19, 2012
Burma Campaign UK today accused Burma’s President Thein Sein of playing games with the lives of political prisoners, using them as pawns in his efforts to persuade the international...
Innocent civilians remain in Burma’s jails – Free Brang Shawng!
September 14, 2012
Burma Campaign UK today called for the immediate release of Brang Shawng. Brang Shawng is a 25-year-old Kachin farmer who was arrested under suspicion of being a captain of Kachin...
Overturn 6 month sentence of human rights defender and lawyer Saw Kyaw Kyaw Min
August 30, 2012
Press Release from Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) is calling on the U Thein Sein administration in Burma to overturn the 6...
No political activists must remain in Burma’s jails: Free Zaw Zaw Aung
August 6, 2012
Burma Campaign UK today repeated its call to Jeremy Browne MP, British Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Burma, to pressure Burma’s military backed government to agree to the formation...
UK Must Act on Arakan and Rohingya Crisis
July 24, 2012
Burma Campaign UK today called on British Foreign Secretary William Hague to end his silence on the current crisis in Burma and step up British diplomatic efforts to end the...
Statement by civil society organisations deeply concerned by violence against stateless Rohingya
July 17, 2012
Civil Society Organisations Deeply Concerned by On-going Violence against Stateless Rohingya in Myanmar and their Refoulement from Bangladesh The stateless Rohingya of Myanmar have suffered from extreme persecution and discrimination...
UK Government Report: Human Rights Abuses Continue In Burma
July 11, 2012
UK Government Report: Human Rights Abuses Continue In Burma The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office published its Human Rights and Democracy report for 2011 on July 10th. The report highlights...