Burma/Myanmar's international legal obligations
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Burma/Myanmar's obligations under the UN Charter and customary international law
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Burma/Myanmar's obligations under the UN Charter and customary international law (commentaries)
Look in the section on the UN System for the UN resolutions on the situation of human rights in Myanmar and the reports to the General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights of the Special Rapporteurs on Myanmar.
Individual Documents
| Title: | | Myanmar: Justice on Trial |
| Date of publication: | | 30 July 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | "On 22 May 2003 Amnesty International submitted a 29-page memorandum to the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC, Myanmar's military government), in order to provide the SPDC with the opportunity to comment on and to clarify various issues about the administration of justice raised in the document. The Memorandum reflected the organization's findings during its first visit to the country from 30 January to 8 February 2003, and drew on its institutional knowledge and expertise about both international human rights standards and human rights in Myanmar. The text of the original Memorandum has now been updated to reflect comments from the SPDC, which were received by Amnesty International on 9 July 2003. The updated Memorandum forms the text of this document, along with a summary of the current human rights situation in Myanmar... Since the submission of the Memorandum to the SPDC on 22 May, political tensions escalated sharply during a National League for Democracy (NLD) tour of Upper Myanmar, culminating in a violent attack on NLD leaders on 30 May. What follows below is a summary of both the attack and the subsequent deterioration in the human rights situation in Myanmar. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD General Secretary, U Tin Oo, NLD Vice Chairman, and other NLD members had been travelling in Upper Myanmar, with the prior permission of the SPDC, during the month of May. As larger and larger crowds gathered to see the NLD leaders, tension increased between the NLD and the Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA), an organization established, organized, and supported by the SPDC.(1) NLD members and supporters were reportedly harassed, intimidated, and threatened by USDA members in various locations as they attempted to conduct their legitimate political party activities, including giving speeches and opening local NLD offices. However the SPDC reportedly did very little to diffuse tensions between the USDA and the NLD. While Amnesty International acknowledges the universal right to peacefully assemble and conduct protest demonstrations, the actions of the USDA went beyond such non-violent expressions of dissent. .." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Amnesty International |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA16/019/2003
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=E8E42C86A0BF5F7980256D72004704AB&lang=e |
| Date of entry/update: | | 19 November 2010 |
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Burma/Myanmar's treaty obligations
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Burma/Myanmar's treaty obligations (texts)
Individual Documents
| Title: | | United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (including the protocols on trafficking and smuggling of persons) |
| Date of publication: | | 15 November 2000 |
| Description/subject: | | The Convention entered into force on 29 September 2003...
Annex I:
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime...
Annex II:
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women
and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime...Annex III:
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime...Myanmar accession: 30 March 2004... The UNODC page at http://www.unodc.org/unodc/crime_cicp_convention.html contains the finalized instruments;
Signatures/Ratifications;
Legislative guides;
Background information;
Conference of the Parties. |
| Language: | | English (Arabic,Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish available) |
| Source/publisher: | | United Nations (A/RES/55/25) |
| Format/size: | | pdf, html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CTOC/index.html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 23 May 2005 |
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| Title: | | Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) |
| Date of publication: | | 20 November 1989 |
| Description/subject: | | Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989; entry into force 2 September 1990. For the jurisprudence of the Convention, visit the site of CRC Committee. Myanmar accession: 15 July 1991. |
| Language: | | English, Francais, Espanol, Russian, Arabic, Chinese |
| Source/publisher: | | United Nations |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the 1977 Protocols |
| Date of publication: | | 12 August 1949 |
| Description/subject: | | Myanmar ratification: 25 August 1992.
See Article 3, commmon to all four Conventions, which covers conflict "not of an international character" i.e. civil war and other forms of internal conflict. Burma is a party to the Conventions but not to the Protocols. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | ILO Convention 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise |
| Date of publication: | | 09 July 1948 |
| Description/subject: | | Convention concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise. The page also has a link to the list of ratifications. Myanmar ratification, 1955 |
| Language: | | English (French and Spanish available) |
| Source/publisher: | | International Labour Office |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | ILO Convention 29 on Forced Labour (1930) |
| Date of publication: | | 28 June 1930 |
| Description/subject: | | Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour. The page also has a link to the list of ratifications. Myanmar ratification, 1955. |
| Language: | | English (French and Spanish available) |
| Source/publisher: | | International Labour Office |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) |
| Description/subject: | | Burma acceded to the Convention on 13 June 1997. The aim of the Convention is "...to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival...CITES is an international agreement to which States (countries) adhere voluntarily. States that have
agreed to be bound by the Convention ('joined' CITES) are known as Parties. Although CITES is
legally binding on the Parties - in other words they have to implement the Convention - it does not
take the place of national laws. Rather it provides a framework to be respected by each Party, which
has to adopt its own domestic legislation to make sure that CITES is implemented at the national
level..." Click on Home etc. on the CITES page for more information. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | CITES |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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