Lift the ban: why giving people seeking asylum the right to work is common sense
August 11, 2020The Lift the Ban coalition of over 200 non-profit organisations, think tanks, businesses, trade unions and faith groups, is calling on the UK Government to give people seeking asylum and their adult dependants the right to work after they have waited s …
AAPP report on political prisoners July 2020
August 5, 2020507 individuals are oppressed in Burma due to political activity: 35 political prisoners are serving sentences, 155 are awaiting trial inside prison, 317 are awaiting trial outside prison. In July, 52 people were arrested and 22 charged. 45 people were …
Left behind and destitute: How IDP communities in Southern Burma/Myanmar are struggling to survive during COVID-19
July 15, 2020Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in remote communities in southeast Burma are struggling to survive. COVID-19-related restrictions on the freedom of movement in these areas—often under the administration of multiple ethnic armed organisations—make i …
AAPP report on political prisoners June 2020
July 9, 2020641 individuals are oppressed in Burma due to political activity: 35 political prisoners are serving sentences, 146 are awaiting trial inside prison, 460 are awaiting trial outside prison. In June, 66 people were arrested, 71 were charged, 49 were rele …
Virus warfare: Burma Army destruction of Karen community defences against Covid-19
June 16, 2020Instead of supporting and collaborating with Covid-19 prevention activities, the Burma Army burned, demolished and forced to shut down Covid-19 health screening points set up by local Karen communities. Karen Peace Support Network’s new briefing calls …
AAPP report on political prisoners May 2020
June 5, 2020592 individuals are oppressed in Burma due to political activity: 41 political prisoners are serving sentences, 142 are awaiting trial inside prison, 409 are awaiting trial outside prison. In May, armed clashes between the military and the Arakan Army …
AAPP report on political prisoners April 2020
May 11, 2020587 individuals are oppressed in Burma due to political activity: 50 political prisoners are serving sentences, 137 are awaiting trial inside prison, 400 are awaiting trial outside prison. During April, 24,896 prisoners, including 26 political prisoner …
Karen heartlands under attack: stop the Burma Army’s new offensive in Mutraw
April 19, 2020Since the start of 2020, the Burma Army has deployed over 2,000 troops, and fired hundreds of mortar shells to try and push through a strategic road into the northern Karen district of Mutraw, despite its existing ceasefire with the Karen National Unio …
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Forgotten Political Prisoners
April 18, 2020Four years into the five-year term of the NLD-led government, the issue of political prisoners remains one of the main problems in the country. Almost all the repressive laws that the military dictatorship used to jail activists remain in place. State …
AAPP report on political prisoners March 2020
April 10, 2020615 individuals are oppressed in Burma due to political activity: 92 political prisoners are serving sentences, 124 are awaiting trial inside prison, 399 are awaiting trial outside prison. The report concludes that the prevalence of human rights violat …