Burma Campaign UK
UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur – report to UN General Assembly, 2024 Increasingly isolated, desperate and violent, Myanmar’s military junta has ramped up attacks on civilians, pummelling towns that have fallen to opposition groups. Junta troops are responsible for massacres, beheadings, gang rape and torture. The Special Rapporteur calls on States to address the devastating …
Report by the Burmese Muslim Association (BMA) The aim of this report is to track the rapidly growing anti Muslim activities in Burma. Summary The marriage law has been amended, reducing the punishment for breach of the law. The Lower House of Parliament has approved religion conversion law. President Thein Sein signed the population cap …
“The Myanmar government has already played a clever tactical game. By first casting doubt about attending the summit, then agreeing to, they are being praised just for turning up. ASEAN members have now toned down their criticism of Myanmar’s anti-Rohingya policies for fear Myanmar might pull out”. Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK is …
Our statement calling on Ban Ki-moon to negotiate access for humanitarian aid in Rakhine State is featured in Mizzima News: “Twenty-seven international humanitarian aid and advocacy organisations have written today, 20 May, to the United Nations Secretary-General, urging him to give his “personal attention” to the humanitarian crisis in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma) and to …
Thirty seven international humanitarian aid and advocacy organisations have written today to the United Nations Secretary-General, urging him to give his “personal attention” to the humanitarian crisis in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma) and to take “a personal lead” in negotiating for humanitarian access to all areas of Rakhine State. In an open letter, the NGOs …
We, the undersigned organizations, strongly condemn the latest instance of brutal and indiscriminate assault by the police and vigilante groups against the students, monks, and residents in Letpadan who have been peacefully exercising their civil and political rights. We further call on the Burmese government to immediately stop the violent attacks, harassment, and arrest of …
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed a new report by the British government, in which they finally admit that there are ‘a number of worrying setbacks’ in Burma’s reforms process, which are ‘of significant concern.’ The admission came in the annual human rights report by the British Foreign Office, following a months’ long campaign by Burma …
Burma Campaign UK was today joined by Baroness Kinnock, Baroness Nye, and supporters to deliver more than 2,000 rose-tinted glasses, photo petitions and campaign postcards to the British Foreign Office as part of our campaign to persuade the British government to stop looking at Burma through rose-tinted glasses, and return to putting human rights as …
Please join us and Naomi Long MP on Tuesday 3rd February 2015, at 11.30 AM, to deliver more than 2,000 rose-tinted glasses, petitions and campaign postcards as part of our campaign to persuade the British government to stop looking at Burma through rose-tinted glasses, and return to putting human rights as their top priority in …