Education rights: standards and mechanisms
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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English
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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Adopted by the General Conference
at its eleventh session,
Paris, 14 December 1960
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UNESCO
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2010-11-29
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English
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Articles 10, 14.2(d) (Burma is party to this convention)
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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English
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Articles 28, 29 (Burma is party to this convention)
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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English
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Article 5 e (v)
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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English
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Article 26
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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Individual Documents
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Burmese
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Article 26
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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English
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Article 26
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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Individual Documents
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Pwo-Karen
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Article 26
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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Individual Documents
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S'gaw-Karen
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Article 26
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Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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2010-11-29
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Shan
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"As world attention focused last month on the large-scale public demonstrations in Rangoon and other major urban centres around Burma, the magnitude of domestic frustration over the military?s systematic impoverishment of the civilian population became evident to the international community. This frustration is keenly felt by the people of Dooplaya District in southern Karen State and found expression last month in local anti-regime gatherings. Amongst other abuses, forced labour and extortion in their many guises have been leading causes in the economic collapse and resultant frustration with militarisation in Dooplaya District. A crucial factor making these abuses even more oppressive in Dooplaya and other areas of Karen State as compared with central Burma is the multiplicity of armed groups which compete with each other and with the region?s civilian administration for the spoils of village-level exploitation. Across Dooplaya District the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Army; the regime?s district and township-level civilian administration; the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA); and the Karen Peace Force (KPF) all continue to fatten themselves off of the toil of village labour. Amongst other detrimental consequences, this persistent predation has undermined opportunities for educational advancement and the application of such education beyond traditional village livelihoods or subservience within the local system of militarisation..."
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Karen Human Rights Group Field Report (KHRG #2007-F8)
Date of publication:
2007-10-16
Date of entry/update:
2009-11-07
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Non-ILO Reports on forced labour, including forced portering, in Karen (Kayin) State, Education rights: standards and mechanisms, Economic oppression, Extortion, Robbery, Village and urban resistance
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"In SPDC- and DKBA-controlled Pa?an District villagers face regular, and sometimes daily, demands for labour, money, food and other supplies from local military units. With troop rotation ensuring the constant presence of active troops patrolling these areas, villagers are given little respite from the demands which place a constant drain on their time, incomes and food supplies. In addition to forced labour, extortion and arbitrary taxation, looting by soldiers is rife and families face increased and arbitrary fees for their children?s education. Such continual exploitation undermines villagers? livelihoods and makes family survival unsustainable, leading many villagers to instead seek more sustainable livelihood opportunities in other areas of Burma or neighbouring Thailand. This report focuses on the situation in Dta Greh township of Pa?an District, detailing incidents which occurred between January and July 2008..."
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Karen Human Rights Group Field Reports (KHRG #2008-F13)
Date of publication:
2008-09-18
Date of entry/update:
2009-11-01
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Individual Documents
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Non-ILO Reports on forced labour, including forced portering, in Karen (Kayin) State, Economic oppression, Extortion, Robbery, Education rights: standards and mechanisms
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English
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"With largely consolidated control over Dooplaya District in southern Karen State the SPDC and DKBA, as the two dominant (and allied) military forces, operate under a system of coexistence. The local civilian population, in turn, faces exploitative governance on two fronts as both SPDC and DKBA soldiers seek to extract money, labour, food and other supplies from them. Enforcing heavy movement restrictions on top of persistent exploitative demands, local communities are facing deteriorating livelihood opportunities, increasing poverty, and a constriction of educational and health care opportunities. Persistent human rights abuses thus foster the economic pressures fuelling the continuing migration of rural communities in Dooplaya District to refugee camps in Thailand and towards livelihood opportunities at urban centres in Burma and Thailand. This report examines the situation of abuse in Dooplaya District from January to June 2008..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Field Reports (KHRG #2008-F8)
Date of publication:
2008-07-11
Date of entry/update:
2009-11-01
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Individual Documents
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Non-ILO Reports on forced labour, including forced portering, in Karen (Kayin) State, Conflict and health, including violations of humanitarian and human rights standards as threats to health, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Health, right to: standards and mechanisms, Education rights: standards and mechanisms
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English
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