Exiles stage defiant protest at London embassy to mark Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday
June 18, 2010
Five Burmese exiled dissidents staged a defiant protest at the country’s London embassy earlier this morning to mark the 65th birthday of Burma’s iconic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung...
UN Declares Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s Detention Illegal;
June 17, 2010
Media Release from Freedom Now UN Urges Her Immediate And Unconditional Release Washington, D.C. – Today, Freedom Now released Opinion No. 12/2010 from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary...
Protest against forced relocation and arbitrary arrests of youths in Kachin State
June 7, 2010
Media Release from Kachin National Organization - UK Today, the Kachin Community in UK are holding a protest against forced relocation of villagers due to the Myitsone Irrawaddy dam project,...
EU/ASEAN Burma Statement Effectively Amounts to Defence of the Dictatorship
May 27, 2010
The Burma Campaign UK today condemned as ‘pathetic’ and ‘irresponsible’ a joint statement on Burma issued by the EU and ASEAN on 26th May. The statement goes so far in...
Little Daughter – A memoir of survival in Burma and the west- Released in paperback in UK
May 27, 2010
Media Release from Simon and Schuster ‘Without a scrap of self-pity and with a fair dollop of humour, 28-year-old Phan describes a life mostly spent running for cover’ MAIL ON...
European Parliament – EU Must Support Burma Crimes Investigation
May 20, 2010
Free Elections ‘Impossible’ The European Parliament today unanimously passed a strong resolution on Burma, stating that election laws make free elections ‘impossible’ and the new constitution will ‘maintain a dictatorship...
Burma Regime Receives Email Every 30 Seconds for Political Prisoner Ko Mya Aye
May 18, 2010
Activists worldwide are bombarding Burmese embassies with emails demanding Burma’s dictatorship allow medical access for Ko Mya Aye, a leading democracy activist in Burma. Ko Mya Aye, currently serving a...
Ban Ki-moon Fails to Act as National League for Democracy Banned by Burma Regime
May 6, 2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has failed to take any serious action to prevent Burma’s largest political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), becoming a banned organisation. Under new...
British Political Parties Policies on Burma
May 4, 2010
The Burma Campaign UK has approached the main political parties in the UK asking them for their policies on Burma. Commenting on the responses, Nang Seng, Parliamentary Officer at Burma...
Burmese Political Prisoner Ko Mya Aye Denied Medical Treatment – Now On Death Row
April 29, 2010
Ko Mya Aye, one of the leaders of 88 Generation Students Group, which led protests in 1988 and again in 2007, is being denied access to proper medical treatment he...