CHR 2003: Myanmar: Thousands of people are displaced and starving

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Commission on Human Rights 59th Session Item 10: Economic, social and cultural rights "... It is in the remote parts of Myanmar that the worst abuses of the right to food continue. Within recent weeks, the Asian Legal Resource Centre has spoken with persons travelling in some of these areas. They have told of thousands of people displaced from their lands, some for years, starving in the jungle. One who carried an emaciated child to a Thai town just across the border spoke of the utter shock and disbelief among medical staff at the child?s condition..."

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Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

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United Nations

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2003-04-07

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2003-06-03

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