Burma Campaign UK
Rushanara Ali MP, Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Burma, writes on the the violent campaign against Rohingya Muslims and the urgent need for full humanitarian aid and access to Rakhine state. Read Guardian article
Burma Campaign UK today publishes a new briefing paper, ‘Time for a rethink on policy towards Burma’s military’, calling for a debate on new ways to influence Burma’s military. The commentary briefing paper argues that the international community has yet to develop a strategy for effectively promoting human rights under the new political structure in …
Burma Briefing No. 42 The commentary briefing paper argues that the international community has yet to develop a strategy for effectively promoting human rights under the new political structure in Burma, which now has two power bases, the military, and the National League for Democracy led government. Neither of which is respecting human rights. While …
The Karen Women Organization add their voice to the 16 days of activism to stop violence against women. In Burmese military operations in Arakan State over the past months, there have been consistent reports received of widespread, systematic sexual violence against Rohingya women by Burma Army troops. Read statement
The BBC has obtained footage from inside Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where allegations have emerged of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya community. The Burmese military denies it but has banned independent journalists from investigating in the area. Read full story
Statement by the Karen Women’s Organisation 16 Days of Activism to Stop Violence Against Women During this current 16 Day Campaign to increase awareness about Violence Against Women, KWO feels obligated to raise our voices about the on-going use of rape and other forms of violence against women by the Burma Army. In Burmese military …
“It is becoming clearer that the approach of the NLD and the international community is an abject failure which is costing lives and causing immense suffering” writes Mark Farmaner, Burma Campaign UK’s Director, in Democratic Voice of Burma. Read the full article below or in DVB. In 2006 I received a phone call from a …
Burma Campaign UK has launched a campaign calling on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to personally go to Burma to negotiate the lifting of restrictions on humanitarian aid access in Rakhine State. Since 9th October, 160,000 people have been denied life-saving aid by the government and military. Burma Campaign UK supporters and the public are …
BBC News reports that pressure is growing on Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate claims that the Burmese army has been abusing Muslim civilians. Four weeks ago militants from the Rohingya Muslim minority killed nine policemen. Since then the army has shut down the area, and reports have followed of extra-judicial …
More than 500 Burma Campaign UK supporters have written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urging him to personally lead efforts to persuade the government and military in Burma to lift all humanitarian aid restrictions in Rakhine State. The restrictions mainly target the ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority. Since attacks on police border posts in Rakhine …