[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index ][Thread Index ]

Announcing the Publication of an Im



Subject: Announcing the Publication of an Important New Japanese

Translation on Burma
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by igc7.igc.org id GAA08339
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0
X-Sender: strider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Announcing the Publication of an Important New Japanese Translation 

Documentation of human rights abuses by the Burmese military junta hasn't
been available to Japanese readers because of language problems.  Japanese
bureaucrats, politicians, media, and the general public have remained
woefully uninformed because of this lack of material.

To begin to remedy the problem,  PD Burma has just brought out a Japanese
version of "Burma  Human Rights Year Book 1997/1998" originally published by
NCGUB (National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma).

PD Burma, the International Network of Political Leaders Promoting Democracy
in Burma, with its headquarters in Oslo, is committed to increasing public
awareness through these human rights records, because it sees the Japanese
as having an important, even pivotal role in the Burmese democracy movement.

PD Burma is particularly concerned about the situation in Japan's media,
where lack of background information and reliable data in Japanese is a
critical problem.  This yearbook was a logical translation choice since it
has been widely accepted by UN organizations and decision makers in western
countries. 

Believing that when the Japanese people better understand the basic human
right situation in Burma, the general attitude toward Burma and Burmese
democracy will change, PD Burma-Japan has translated half of the 1997/1998
yearbook. 

We urge Japanese readers and Burmese activists with Japanese associates and
friends to encourage the widest possible distribution of this book!  

For more information, contact:  

PD Burma Japan 
Mr. Schu Sugawara, Coordinator 
Phone +81-48-771-8103  
Fax +81-48-771-8179  
E-mail <schus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

World Human Rights Series No.26
BIRUMA NO JINKEN
(Human Rights in Burma)
A5 280 pages  \3,000 +tax   publisher: Akashi Shoten
Human Rights Yearbook 1997-1998,
Edited by: National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
Translated by: PD Burma-Japan
Supervised by: Shwe Ba

CONTENTS
Headlines in Review 1997/List of Incidents
Chapter 1 Forcible Suppression
  Extra-judicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions
  Arbitrary Detention and Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances


  Life in Prison
Chapter 2 Freedom of Opinion
  Freedom of Opinion, Expression, and the Press
  Freedom of Assembly and Association
  Trade Unions and the Military Junta
Chapter 3 Rights of Vulnerable People
  Rights of the Child
  Rights of Minorities
Chapter 4 Abuse of Women
Abuse of Women
Women and Forced Labour
  Rape conducted by Tatmadaw
  Refugee Women
Chapter 5 Minorities and Forced Labour 1
  Karen
  Chin
  Arakan
  Karenni
  Mon
  Shan
Chapter 6 Minorities and Forced Relocation 2
  Karen State
  Shan State
Chapter 7 Refugee Situation
  Forced Repatriation
  Refugee Camps
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Burma at a Glance

Also available from Burmese Relief Center­Japan
266-27 Ozuku-cho
Kashihara, Nara 634-0846
Tel: (0744) 22-8236
Fax: (0744) 24-6254
brelief@xxxxxxx





http://www2.gol.com/users/brelief/Index.htm