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          Signatures handed over to Office of High Commissioner

September 7, 2001
Mizzima News Group(www.mizzima.com)

Durban, South Africa: More than fifty thousand signatures of Internally
Displaced People, refugees and undocumented migrants from Burma who are
living along the border areas of the country were today handed over to
the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights situated
in the International Convention Center (ICC) in Durban. High
Commissioner Ms. Mary Robinson, who is also the general secretary of the
World Conference Against Racism however was unable to receive the load
of signatures personally due to her tight work.

"The signatures were the testimony of the peoples against the Burmese
military regime for the racial and multiple discrimination", said Naw
Chai Mei Hua, a Karen refugee woman who handed over the signatures this
evening.

In July this year, Women?s League of Burma, which is an umbrella of
exiled Burma women organisations launched a signature campaign calling
for strong international pressure on the Burmese military regime to
start meaningful political dialogue with all actors to solve the
country?s problems.

Total 51,487 refugees and migrants living on India-Burma and Thai-Burma
border areas endorsed the petition.

The World Conference Against Racism which started on August 31 is
scheduled
to end later today.



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<p><b><font color="#EC8B20"><font size=+2>Signatures handed over to Office
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<p><b><font color="#C244DD"><font size=+1>September 7, 2001</font></font></b>
<br><b><font color="#C244DD"><font size=+1>Mizzima News Group</font></font></b><a href="www.mizzima.com">(www.mizzima.com)</a>
<p>Durban, South Africa: More than fifty thousand signatures of Internally
Displaced People, refugees and undocumented migrants from Burma who are
living along the border areas of the country were today handed over to
the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights situated
in the International Convention Center (ICC) in Durban. High Commissioner
Ms. Mary Robinson, who is also the general secretary of the World Conference
Against Racism however was unable to receive the load of signatures personally
due to her tight work.
<p>"The signatures were the testimony of the peoples against the Burmese
military regime for the racial and multiple discrimination", said Naw Chai
Mei Hua, a Karen refugee woman who handed over the signatures this evening.
<p>In July this year, Women?s League of Burma, which is an umbrella of
exiled Burma women organisations launched a signature campaign calling
for strong international pressure on the Burmese military regime to start
meaningful political dialogue with all actors to solve the country?s problems.
<p>Total 51,487 refugees and migrants living on India-Burma and Thai-Burma
border areas endorsed the petition.
<p>The World Conference Against Racism which started on August 31 is scheduled
<br>to end later today.
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