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Librarian's Choice
Source/publisher:
"The Guardian" (UK)
Date of publication:
2020-12-28
Description:
"My friend David Arnott, who has died aged 77, made an important contribution to the struggle for human rights in Burma (Myanmar) through founding and running the Online Burma/Myanmar Library and the Burma Peace Foundation.
Born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, he went to Wakefield grammar school and studied languages at Reading University. He spent the 1960s and 70s immersed in parts of the counterculture: driving a van-load of youngsters to the Soviet Union; joining CND marches; living alone for months on meagre means in Ibiza, while expanding his interest in Buddhism.
In London in the 80s he founded or co-founded several mainly Buddhist or Burma-related organisations, including the Tibet Support Group and Burma Campaign UK. From 1991 until 1996 he worked in New York, supplying documentation to the UN human rights mechanisms, introducing Burma democracy activists to the UN scene, and supporting their lobbying. He then played a similar role in Geneva, where I co-operated with him, along with members of the European Burma Network. Projects there included a conference on the impact of tourism on indigenous peoples.
His life’s work culminated in the Online Burma/Myanmar Library, a database featuring more than 60,000 documents in many languages. David was ahead of his time in advocating free information access as being a key to Burma’s future.
From 2004 until his death he lived in the Mae Sot district in Thailand, an important centre for Burmese exiles. Over the last few years he struggled to raise funding for the library and to arrange a satisfactory succession. It is now run by a younger group of people inside Myanmar..."
Date of entry/update:
2021-01-04
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Abstracts, bibliographies, scholarly journals, libraries, institutes, universities, other research tools, Buddhism
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Talk To Aljazeera"
Date of publication:
2020-05-23
Sub-title:
As COVID-19 shutdowns spike unemployment, the labour body's Guy Ryder discusses how governments can protect workers.
Description:
"he coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live.
Nearly every country in the world has been affected. There have already been millions of infections, and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
And while scientists work on developing a vaccine, governments are focusing on reducing the number of infections through social distancing and other preventive measures.
But these restrictions have brought with them countless financial losses across the globe. The coronavirus recession is considered to be the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of 1929.
As COVID-19 measures halt international trade, shut down airports and leave businesses bankrupt, tens of millions of people have lost their jobs. And for many, being unemployed in the middle of a pandemic means not only losing their income but also losing access to healthcare.
So, how can governments protect their workers and rebuild their economies?
The director-general of the International Labour Organization (ILO)..."
Date of entry/update:
2020-05-26
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Labour Organisation (ILO), COVID-19 (Coronavirus), International labour standards and mechanisms
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"International Crisis Group (ICG)" (Belgium)
Date of publication:
2020-05-19
Sub-title:
Conflicts have paused in much of Myanmar, opening a window for the government, military and ethnic armed groups to pursue a holistic response to the coronavirus. The parties should also work together in Rakhine State, where fighting persists, to limit the disease’s spread.
Description:
"What’s new?...Amid a lull in fighting in much of the country, the Myanmar government and ethnic armed groups appear willing to put aside politics and work together to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The exception is Rakhine State, where conflict is escalating, putting medical workers at risk and exacerbating a potential health disaster.
Why does it matter?...Conflict-affected areas of the country are highly vulnerable to COVID-19 but often outside state control. A successful response to the pandemic will require close coordination among the government, the military and ethnic armed groups, many of which have long run their own health systems. What should be done? The government, military and ethnic armed groups should work together to combat the virus through prevention, surveillance, testing and referrals. In Rakhine, they should ensure the safety of health workers, enable access to displaced populations and strengthen COVID-19 prevention messaging...Overview
A major COVID-19 outbreak could have devastating consequences in a country as conflict-affected as Myanmar, where health spending is limited, governance is weak, hundreds of thousands of people are displaced by fighting, and the government cannot reach many areas held by ethnic armed groups. Reducing transmission as much as possible so that the health system can better cope will require cooperation with these groups, many of which run their own health systems. Promising discussions that have already begun between the government and various ethnic armed groups should continue in earnest to enable a holistic response in areas of the country where conflict is presently limited. The exception is Rakhine State, where fighting continues to escalate between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army, undermining prevention efforts and putting the lives of health workers at risk. Here, all sides should ensure the safety of medical personnel, allow humanitarian access to displaced and other vulnerable populations, and work to improve public adherence to mitigation measures..."
Date of entry/update:
2020-05-21
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Armed conflict in Rakhine (Arakan) State, COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF)
Date of publication:
2020-01-21
Description:
"...Shan community groups launched today a new video, The Four Cuts, documenting atrocities committed by the Burma Army during past “clearance operations” in Shan State. On December 11, 2019, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi defended Burma’s military against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice, saying they were just carrying out “clearance operations” targeting insurgents or terrorists. The video shows the real meaning of “clearance operations” for Shan State inhabitants: brutal scorched earth campaigns – better known as “Four Cuts operations” - which have devastated and depopulated large areas of Shan State.
In new video testimony, witnesses recount Burma Army atrocities committed during operations which forced about 400,000 people out of 1,800 villages in fifteen townships in central and southern Shan State. Between 1996 and 1998, over 1,000 villagers were killed, and at least 625 women and girls suffered rape and other forms of sexual violence..."
Date of entry/update:
2020-05-17
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Shan Human Rights Foundation Website
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Inter-Agency Standing Committee"
Date of publication:
2020-03-31
Description:
"...This book was a project developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (IASC MHPSS RG). The project was supported by global, regional and country based experts from Member Agencies of the IASC MHPSS RG, in addition to parents, caregivers, teachers and children in 104 countries. A global survey was distributed in Arabic, English, Italian, French and Spanish to assess children’s mental health and psychosocial needs during the COVID-19 outbreak. A framework of topics to be addressed through the story was developed using the survey results. The book was shared through storytelling to children in several countries affected by COVID-19. Feedback from children, parents and caregivers was then used to review and update the story..."
Date of entry/update:
2020-05-16
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
COVID-19 (Coronavirus), E-books and other resources in Burmese, Online Books - general lists
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format :
PDF
Size:
3.31 MB
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Source/publisher:
Sebastião Salgado and John Berger via YouTube
Date of publication:
2018-01-10
Description:
"THE SPECTRE OF HOPE brings together art critic John Berger, author of WAYS OF SEEING, and world-renowned photographer Sebastião. Critic and writer John Berger talks with brazilean photographer Sebastião Salgado on his photographs book Migrations..."
Date of entry/update:
2020-02-11
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Labour migration: global and regional studies, Not two, The global environment - resources, Economy and social justice (global)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) (The Hague)
Date of publication:
2020-01-23
Description:
"Present: President YUSUF; Vice-President XUE; Judges TOMKA, ABRAHAM, BENNOUNA,
CANÇADO TRINDADE, DONOGHUE, GAJA, SEBUTINDE, BHANDARI, ROBINSON,
CRAWFORD, GEVORGIAN, SALAM, IWASAWA; Judges ad hoc PILLAY, KRESS;
Registrar GAUTIER.
The International Court of Justice,
Composed as above,
After deliberation,
Having regard to Articles 41 and 48 of the Statute of the Court and Articles 73, 74 and 75 of
the Rules of Court,
Makes the following Order: 1. On 11 November 2019, the Republic of The Gambia (hereinafter “The Gambia”) filed in
the Registry of the Court an Application instituting proceedings against the Republic of the Union
of Myanmar (hereinafter “Myanmar”) concerning alleged violations of the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (hereinafter the “Genocide Convention” or
the “Convention”)..."
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-24
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Myanmar, Genocide, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English, French
Format :
pdf
Size:
227.63 KB (28 pages)
Local URL:
178-20200123-ORD-01-00-en-red.pdf
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Source/publisher:
"Al Jazeera" (Qatar)
Date of publication:
2020-01-23
Description:
"The International Court of Justice, the world's highest court, has ordered Myanmar's government to prevent it's military from committing acts of genocide against the Rohingya.
The ICJ has also warned that the Rohingya Muslim minority remain at serious risk of genocide and ordered the country to abide by the genocide convention, and take all measures within its power to prevent further killings.
The case brought by The Gambia last year accuses Myanmar of committing an ongoing genocide against its minority Muslim Rohingya population. Myanmar denies the allegations.
Thursday's ruling comes just days after an inquiry backed by Myanmar's government dismissed allegations of genocide. Myanmar's leader Suu Kyi says the Rohingya have 'exaggerated' abuses.
So what does this ruling mean and will Myanmar abide by the orders? ..."
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-24
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Myanmar, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
more
Description:
"Chi Suwichan is an actor and composer, known for Songs from the Karen Forest (2012)..."
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-06
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Karen Music
Language:
Sgaw Karen
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Source/publisher:
Transnational Institute (TNI) ( Netherlands)
Date of publication:
2019-12-18
Description:
"Rakhine State, historically known as Arakan, represents the post-colonial failures of Myanmar in microcosm: ethnic conflict, political impasse, militarisation, economic neglect and the marginalisation of local peoples. During the past decade, many of these challenges have gathered a new intensity, accentuating a Buddhist-Muslim divide and resulting in one of the greatest refugee crises in the modern world. A land of undoubted human and natural resource potential, Rakhine State has become one of the poorest territories in the country today. The current crisis is often characterised as a “Buddhist Rakhine” versus “Muslim Rohingya” struggle for political rights and ethnic identity. But the challenges of achieving democracy, equality and the right of self-determination have always been more complex and nuanced than this. Arakan’s vibrant history reflects its frontline position on a cultural and geo-political crossroads in Asia.
Taking a narrative approach, this report seeks to analyse the challenges facing Rakhine State and its peoples during a critical time of transition from military rule. As always in Myanmar, a balanced understanding of local societies and perspectives is essential in a territory that reflects different ethnic, religious and political viewpoints. In the case of Rakhine State, the social and political challenges facing the peoples have been little documented or understood. Decades of civil war and international isolation have resulted in a dearth of reporting on the ethnic conflicts and governmental failures that have had a devastating impact on the ground. Equally resonant, the instabilities in Arakan cannot be separated from the challenges of peace and inclusion for all peoples and faiths in the sub-Asian region..."
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-02
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Law and policy on land in Burma/Myanmar, International resources on land rights and tenure, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
Format :
pdf pdf
Size:
7.9 MB 5.54 MB
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Source/publisher:
"Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper Series"
Date of publication:
2017-00-00
Description:
"Despite hundreds of “Rule of Law” projects at the World Bank and a host of
research into the foundations and content of the Rule of Law, we are still nowhere near
an altogether satisfactory definition. While the Rule of Law is repeatedly being referred
to in ‘legal assistance’ and ‘law reform’ projects and lives as a guiding principle in
constitutions around the world, we don’t seem able to settle on a commonly agreedupon approach to its nature and institutional form. In this context, the Rule of Law
provides an opportunity to engage critically with the differences in perception and bias
from which participants in the debate define and situate the principle and its underlying
values. This short paper argues for a legal pluralist understanding of the Rule of Law as
a set of selective institutional experiences and normative contentions which look very
different when studied across time and space. Complementing some of the work that
has been done in post-colonial studies and by TWAIL (Third World Approaches to
International Law) scholars in law, the ‘transnationalization of the rule of law’ might be
one of the important next frontiers in deconstructing Western and Northern narratives
of legal ordering... Rule of Law, Legal Pluralism, Post-colonialism, World Bank, Orientalism,
Legal Transplants, Empire..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Legal Pluralism - global and regional
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
317.69 KB (26 pages)
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Source/publisher:
"Al Jazeera" (Qatar)
Date of publication:
2019-12-12
Description:
"Two years ago, Myanmar's military launched its crackdown on the Rohingya after attacks on its soldiers by members of the mainly Muslim minority.
The UN described what happened next as a 'textbook example of ethnic cleansing'.
The army was accused of rape, torture and murder, and villages were burned to the ground.
Almost three-quarters of a million Rohingya were forced to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, where they live in the world's biggest refugee camp.
The Gambia wanted Myanmar's military tried for genocide, and went to the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
But Aung San Suu Kyi, Head of Myanmar's government, and a Nobel peace laureate, dismissed the case as "misleading and incomplete."
Why is this one-time champion of human rights defending the army that kept her under house arrest for years?..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Myanmar, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), About Aung San Suu Kyi
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
UNited Nations (New York)
Date of publication:
2017-10-24
Description:
"United Nations - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and the world’s highest international court.
It has a dual role: to settle in accordance with international law the legal disputes submitted to it by UN Member States, and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized international organs and agencies of the UN system.
This short film (available in over 50 languages) presents its main features.
Use of this file is free for non-profit and educational/editorial purposes. The ICJ encourages its use, reproduction and distribution for the same purposes. Sale or commercial use strictly prohibited..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-13
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Gambiana News" (UK)
Date of publication:
2019-12-10
Description:
"The International Court of Justice (ICJ) begins hearing on the Gambia’s Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar today in The Hague.
The three day hearings will include the first response by Myanmar to allegations of atrocities against the Rohingya before an independent and impartial court.
The Gambia, with the backing of the 57 members of the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation, filed a case on November 11, with the court alleging that the Myanmar military’s atrocities in Rakhine State against Rohingya Muslims violate the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-13
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Myanmar, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Eye Africa TV
Date of publication:
2019-12-12
Description:
"Gambia maintains position that Myanmar committed gross human right violations.."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-13
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Myanmar, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Global News" (Toronto)
Date of publication:
2019-12-11
Description:
"Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the case brought against her country at the World Court was "incomplete and misleading" as she began her defence to accusations of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority on Wednesday.
Suu Kyi, once feted in the West as a heroine of democracy, spoke for about 30 minutes at the courtroom in The Hague in defence of the actions of the Myanmar military, which she said did not constitute genocide.
In three days of hearings this week, judges are hearing the first phase of the case: Gambia's request for "provisional measures" - the equivalent of a restraining order against Myanmar to protect the Rohingya population until the case is heard in full.
More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar to Bangladesh after the military launched a crackdown in western Rakhine state in August 2017..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-13
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Myanmar, About Aung San Suu Kyi, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) (The Hague)
Date of publication:
2019-09-30
Sub-title:
The ICJ today published a “Strategic Litigation Handbook for Myanmar.” In this, the ICJ seeks to offer an accessible, concise and substantial overview of the conceptual basis and purpose of strategic litigation.
Description:
"The Handbook shows the potential impacts of strategic litigation in Myanmar, by drawing on experiences from Myanmar and other countries, while recognizing the related challenges and opportunities, as expressed by legal professionals and civil society actors. It is intended to be useful to all legal practitioners and community activists in Myanmar.
While there is no universal definition or conception of ‘strategic litigation,’ the term is typically used to describe litigation whereby the interests may go beyond those of the primary litigants. The various adjudication processes it entails are sometimes referred to as ‘public interest litigation’, ‘impact litigation’, ‘test case litigation’, or ‘community lawyering’. What they all have in common is the idea that courts and the law can be used as part of a campaign to achieve broader change in relation to matters seen to be in the broader public interest...ကမ္ဘာ့ဒေသအားလုံးမှ အထင်ကရတရားသူကြီးနှင့် ရှေ့နေပေါင်းအယောက် ၆ဝ ဖြင့်ဖွဲ့စည်းထားသော အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ
ဥပဒေပညာရှင်များကော်မရှင် (International Commission of Jurists – ICJ)သည် ပြည်တွင်းနှင့်အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ
တရားရေးစနစ်များဖွံဖြိုးတိုးတက်ပြီး ပိုမိုအားကောင်းလာစေရန် ၎င်း၏ဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာကျွမ်းကျင်မှုကို အသုံးချ၍ တရား
ဥပဒေစိုးမိုးမှုမှတစ်ဆင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးကို ကာကွယ်မြှင့်တင်ပေးပါသည်။ ၁၉၅၂ ခုနှစ်တွင် တည်ထောင်ခဲ့ပြီး ကမ္ဘာ့တိုက်
ကြီးငါးခုတွင် လုပ်ကိုင်ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော ICJ သည် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာလူ့အခွင့်အရေးဥပဒေများနှင့် အပြည်ပြည်
ဆိုင်ရာ လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေများ တိုးတက်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးလာစေရန်နှင့် ထိရောက်စွာ အကောင်အထည်
ဖော်မှုရှိစေရန်၊ နိုင်ငံသားဆိုင်ရာ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဆိုင်ရာ၊ စီးပွားရေးဆိုင်ရာနှင့် လူမှုရေးဆိုင်ရာ အခွင့်အရေးများရရှိစေရန်၊
လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်အာဏာခွဲခြားသတ်မှတ်ချက်ကိုကာကွယ်ရန်၊ တရားစီရင်ရေးနှင့် ဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာလွတ်လပ်မှုကို အာမခံချက်
ပေးနိုင်ရန် ရည်ရွယ်ပါသည်။
အခြားသောပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များအပြင် ဥပဒေပညာရှင်များနှင့် အရပ်ဘက်လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းမှ တက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူများနှင့် ဆွေးနွေး
မှုများကြောင့်လည်း ဤလက်စွဲစာအုပ်အတွက် အဖိုးတန်သော အချက်အလက်များကို ရရှိခဲ့ပါသည်။..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-12
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format :
pdf
Size:
1.23 MB (46 pages)
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Source/publisher:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) (The Hague)
Date of publication:
2019-09-30
Sub-title:
The ICJ today published a “Strategic Litigation Handbook for Myanmar.” In this, the ICJ seeks to offer an accessible, concise and substantial overview of the conceptual basis and purpose of strategic litigation.
Description:
"The Handbook shows the potential impacts of strategic litigation in Myanmar, by drawing on experiences from Myanmar and other countries, while recognizing the related challenges and opportunities, as expressed by legal professionals and civil society actors. It is intended to be useful to all legal practitioners and community activists in Myanmar.
While there is no universal definition or conception of ‘strategic litigation,’ the term is typically used to describe litigation whereby the interests may go beyond those of the primary litigants. The various adjudication processes it entails are sometimes referred to as ‘public interest litigation’, ‘impact litigation’, ‘test case litigation’, or ‘community lawyering’. What they all have in common is the idea that courts and the law can be used as part of a campaign to achieve broader change in relation to matters seen to be in the broader public interest. ICJ publishes “Strategic Litigation Handbook for Myanmar”
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
The ICJ today published a “Strategic Litigation Handbook for Myanmar.” In this, the ICJ seeks to offer an accessible, concise and substantial overview of the conceptual basis and purpose of strategic litigation.
The Handbook shows the potential impacts of strategic litigation in Myanmar, by drawing on experiences from Myanmar and other countries, while recognizing the related challenges and opportunities, as expressed by legal professionals and civil society actors. It is intended to be useful to all legal practitioners and community activists in Myanmar.
While there is no universal definition or conception of ‘strategic litigation,’ the term is typically used to describe litigation whereby the interests may go beyond those of the primary litigants. The various adjudication processes it entails are sometimes referred to as ‘public interest litigation’, ‘impact litigation’, ‘test case litigation’, or ‘community lawyering’. What they all have in common is the idea that courts and the law can be used as part of a campaign to achieve broader change in relation to matters seen to be in the broader public interest.
Part one of the Handbook explores core aspects of strategic litigation, including its origins, key concepts, potential impacts, challenges and forums. In part two, areas of law are identified which offer potential options for strategic litigation actions, including procedures, legislation and constitutional writs. Practical steps for the planning and application of strategic litigation, such as media strategy and case selection, are outlined in part three. Finally, part four of the Handbook discusses related challenges in the Myanmar context, including a discussion of requisite reforms required in the justice sector more broadly.."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-12
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) - General, International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Myanmar
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
514.91 KB (34 pages)
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Source/publisher:
Myanmar State Counsellor Office (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-12-11
Description:
"1. Thank you, Mr. President and Members of the Court. It is an honour to appear as Agent of the
Republic of the Union of Myanmar in these proceedings, in my capacity as Union Minister for
Foreign Affairs. For materially less resourceful countries like Myanmar, the World Court is a vital
refuge of international justice. We look to the Court to establish conditions conducive to respect
for obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law, one of the fundamental
objectives of the United Nations Charter.
2. In the present case, Mr. President, the Court has been asked to apply the 1948 Genocide
Convention, one of the most fundamental multilateral treaties of our time. Invoking the 1948
Genocide Convention is a matter of utmost gravity. This is the treaty that we made following the
systematic killing of more than six million European Jews, and that my country whole-heartedly
signed as early as 30 December 1949 and ratified on 14 March 1956. Genocide is the crime that
the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda applied in response to the mass-killing of perhaps
70% of the Tutsis in Rwanda. It is the crime that was not applied by the Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia to the displacement of approximately one million residents of Kosovo in 1999.
Neither was it applied by that Tribunal nor by this Court when deciding upon the exodus of the
Serb population from Croatia in 1995. In both situations international justice resisted the
temptation to use this strongest of legal classifications because the requisite specific intent to
physically destroy the targeted group in whole or in part was not present.
3. Regrettably, The Gambia has placed before the Court an incomplete and misleading factual
picture of the situation in Rakhine State in Myanmar. Yet, it is of the utmost importance that the
Court assess the situation obtaining on the ground in Rakhine dispassionately and accurately..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-12
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
About Aung San Suu Kyi, International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Myanmar, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
153.4 KB (6 pages)
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Source/publisher:
YouTube
Date of publication:
2019-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-12
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Myanmar, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
One News (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-12-10
Description:
"နယ်သာလန်နိုင်ငံက ICJ တရားရုံးအထိ ကိုယ်တိုင်သွားပြီး နိုင်ငံ့ကိုယ်စား ဦးဆောင်ရင်ဆိုင်ရဲတဲ့ ဒေါ်အောင် ဆန်းစုကြည်ရဲ့လုပ်ရပ်ကို ကြိဆိုထောက်ခံတယ်လို့ ဝါရင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးလှုပ်ရှားသူ Equality Myanmar ရဲ့ အမှုဆောင်ဒါရိုက်တာ ဦးအောင်မျိုးမင်းကပြောပါတယ်။ One News က ဦးထက်အောင်ကျော်နဲ့ သီးသန့် မေးမြန်းခန်းအတွင်း သူက အဲဒီလိုပြောခဲ့တာပါ။
အခု ထုတ်လွှင့်ပေးမယ့် မေးမြန်းချက် ပထမ ပိုင်းမှာတော့… ICJ နဲ့ ICC ဘာကွာသလဲ၊ ICC က စွပ်စွဲစဉ်က ဘာမှမတုန့်ပြန်ဘဲ ICJ ပြောမှ နိုင်ငံတော်အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ကိုယ်တိုင် သွားရောက်ဖြေရှင်းတာ ဘာကြောင့်လဲ၊ တရားရုံးရဲ့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်က ဘာဖြစ်နိုင်သလဲ၊ လူထုထောက်ခံပွဲတွေက ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ကို ထောက်ခံ တာအပြင် ရခိုင်အရေးဖြစ်စဉ်တွေအပေါ်ပါ ကရက်ရိုက်မှုရှိလာနိုင်သလား… စတဲ့အကြောင်းအရာတွေကို ဆွေးနွေးတင်ပြထားပါတယ်။..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-10
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Criminal Court (Myanmar), Genocide, About Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese-language news sources: Broadcast (radio and TV)
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Font:
Unicode
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Source/publisher:
"FORSEA Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia"
Date of publication:
2019-08-29
Description:
"Speaking at the first day of the International Conference on Protection of Rohingya Survivors and Accountability for Genocide, professor and UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee delivered an inspirational opening keynote, calling Myanmar’s policies of persecution towards Rohingyas a classic genocide while exhorting activists in the audience – and on YouTube – to “call a spade a spade”.
She invoked the inter-state treaty known as the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Lee rightly slammed the United Nations, particularly the Security Council, to discharge its founding charter, exposed the unconscionable presence of Myanmar solders among the UN Peacekeepers and destroyed the credibility of the United Nations.
The two-day International Conference was at at Sogang University in Seoul, S. Korea, August 23-24, 2019..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-09
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Genocide, Discrimination against the Rohingya
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Just Have a Think
Date of publication:
2019-09-01
Description:
"Carbon Dioxide levels in our atmosphere continue to climb, as does our global atmospheric temperature. Despite greater awareness of the issues, and huge strides forward by the renewable energy industry, we are not having any effect on the overall problem. But some people think we're looking in the wrong place for the solution and that all we need to do is take some lessons from the way nature has always used it's resources to regulate heat across our blue planet..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - networks, campaigns, guides, resources, Food Security - global and regional literature, Adaptation to climate change
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2019-11-12
Description:
"The Karen National Union said the effectiveness and the usefulness of foreign funding has been nullified by need for ethnic armed organizations to seek permission from the government.
The National Reconciliation and Peace Center (NRPC), formed by the President’s Office to set policies and guidelines for reconciliation and peace process taking place, sent an official letter to 10 ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) who are signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on September 3, 2019, informing them of the procedure..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Funding, Karen National Union (KNU)
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Source/publisher:
Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
Date of publication:
2019-04-08
Description:
"On this day, the 5th of April 2019, we the indigenous Karen communities of the Salween Peace Park gather to mark a moment of sorrow, and one of hope. Today marks the formal establishment of the Salween Peace Park General Assembly, with the swearing in of its 106 members who represent communities from the Park’s 26 village tracts, Mutraw District Karen National Union, and Karen civil society..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
National parks and protected areas, Preservation of the environment in Burma/Myanmar, Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen
Language:
Sgaw Karen, English, Burmese(မြန်မာ)
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Source/publisher:
Karen News
Date of publication:
2019-11-04
Description:
"Thoo Mwe Khee School, a popular migrant school on the Thai-Burma border, is having difficulties coping with almost 1,000 student’s packed classrooms and an overcrowded boarding house. “We would like to limit the number of students we admit to the school. But it’s hard to reject students who want to come here to study. If we reject their admission, it will be difficult for them, as they will have to find another school. We take into consideration the students’ opportunities, enthusiasm and their wishes to study at our school in admitting them...”
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-18
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Title: GRASSROOTS KAREN WOMEN GROUPS CALL FOR GENUINE REFORMS AND MORE INVOLVEMENT IN BURMA POLITICS
Source/publisher:
Karen News
Date of publication:
2019-11-08
Sub-title:
Karen women’s groups called for more women to be involved in Burma’s federal political and Karen National Union elections.
Description:
“The calls we made are important and need to be carefully taken into consideration. Our view is that a collective call is more effective than an individual one. Some of the points we made have already been communicated to the KNU, ethnic armed groups and the government. We have made these calls repeatedly so, we hope that the relevant government notices and implements them...”
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-18
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Karen News
Date of publication:
2019-11-13
Sub-title:
Communities in rural Karen State don’t refer to climate change by name, but they have experienced its negative impacts and are responding
Description:
"At the foot of Maw Law Ei Mountain, the highest peak in eastern Myanmar’s Karen State, increasing temperatures, drought and extreme weather events, such as flash-flooding, have become common.
Members of the indigenous groups that make up the majority of the population here, talk about the significant changes they’ve seen in both the natural environment and the climate.
“In the past, it was cooler because we had many big trees,” said Kyaw Blar, a villager from Ta Deh Koh village, one of the villages at the foot of Maw Law Ei mountain (pronounced Mulayit). “It’s all plain area now… it is hotter now...”
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-18
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Studies of the regional environment, Timber trade
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
MSNBC
Date of publication:
2019-04-01
Description:
"Watch the full "Green New Deal with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" on All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC.
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MSNBC delivers breaking news and in-depth analysis of the headlines, as well as informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, Hardball, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and more..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-17
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Google Search
Date of publication:
2019-10-30
Description:
About 38,900 results (0.31 seconds)
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-30
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Academia.edu" (USA)
Date of publication:
2019-10-30
Description:
The Rohingya Issues written by Jacques P Leider.
31 books.
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-30
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Date of entry/update:
2019-10-22
Copyright holder:
"may be reproduced free forever"
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Not two
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
45.79 KB
Local URL:
Smokey_the_Bear_Sutra.pdf
Smokey_the_Bear_Sutra.pdf more
Date of publication:
1892
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-22
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Not two
Language:
English (trans. from the German "Der Tod des Dichters" by J. B. Leishman)
Format :
pdf pdf
Size:
28.5K 28.5 KB
Local URL:
Rilke - The Poet's Death.pdf
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Source/publisher:
"Displacement Solutions" (Switzerland) via Reliefweb
Date of publication:
2019-10-21
Description:
"DS has just published a major 184-page legal report on the land grabbing in Myanmar and how these processes constitute internationally wrongful acts. The report includes a 21-step legal roadmap to end land grabbing once and for in Myanmar, a nation that is one of the worst in the world in
Although the general power of States to compulsorily acquire, expropriate or otherwise confiscate or ‘grab’ land, homes and properties is legislatively recognised in virtually all national legal systems, to be lawful these processes generally carry with them five fundamental pre-conditions. Namely, when housing, land or property rights are revoked or limited through these processes, this can only be carried out when the taking concerned is:
1) subject to law and due process;
2) subject to the general principles of international law;
3) in the interest of society and not for the benefit of another private party;
4) proportionate, reasonable and subject to a fair balance test between the cost and the aim sought; and
5) subject to the provision of just and satisfactory compensation..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-21
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Land research including land grabbing - global and regional, Tenure insecurity in Burma (including land grabbing), Customary tenure - global and regional, International resources on land rights and tenure
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
1.59 MB (184 pages)
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Source/publisher:
"Sebastiao Salgado"
Date of publication:
2006-12-26
Description:
76 photographs of Brazilian photographer, Sebastiao Salgado.
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-08
Type:
Individual Documents
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Source/publisher:
satash8 (video)
Date of publication:
2015-04-01 (video); 1200, text (estimate),
Description:
"One of the 20th century’s most prolific scholars of Islamic mysticism, Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was Professor of Islam & Islamic Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Tehran. (Iran)
Corbin’s central project was to provide a framework for understanding the unity of the religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. His great work: “Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi “is a classic initiatory text of visionary spirituality that transcends the tragic divisions among the three great monotheisms.
Corbin’s life was devoted to the struggle to free the religious imagination from fundamentalisms of every kind.
Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi is one of the world's great spiritual teachers.
Ibn 'Arabi was born in Murcia, Spain in 1165 and his writings had an immense impact throughout the Islamic world and beyond. The universal ideas underlying his thought are of immediate relevance today.
Music: Armand Amar
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-05
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Not two
Language:
English (sub-titles)
Format :
video
Size:
5 minutes, 53 seconds
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Source/publisher:
Plum Village
Date of publication:
2012-10-29
Sub-title:
(The End Of Suffering)
Description:
Read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem.
The creators of this audio track were Gary Malkin, the composer/arranger, producer, and collaborator Michael Stillwater. The work came from a CD/book called Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, and it could be purchased by going to wisdomoftheworld.com.
The creator of this video is R Smittenaar. This video can be downloaded at: https://vimeo.com/6518109
Visuals taken from:
HOME, Earth and Baraka
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-05
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Not two
Language:
English, Vietnamese
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Source/publisher:
"Democracy Now!"
Date of publication:
2019-09-19
Description:
"More than a million students are expected to walk out of class on Friday in a Global Climate Strike, with more than 800 climate strikes scheduled in the United States alone. Strikes are also being organized in another 150 countries around the world. In our New York studio, we speak to Amnesty International’s Secretary General Kumi Naidoo, who has urged school districts across the globe to allow students to walk out of school on Friday without facing punishment. In a letter, Naidoo, who is also the former executive director of Greenpeace, writes, “(c)hildren should not be punished for speaking out about the great injustices of our age. In fact, when it has fallen on young people to show the leadership that many adults who hold great positions of power have failed to, it is not young people’s behavior we should be questioning. It is ours.”..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-20
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Guardian News"
Date of publication:
2019-09-19
Description:
"Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle the climate crisis.
Living ecosystems like forests, mangroves, swamps and seabeds can pull enormous quantities of carbon from the air and store them safely, but natural climate solutions currently receive only 2% of the funding spent on cutting emissions.
The film’s director, Tom Mustill of Gripping Films, said: 'We tried to make the film have the tiniest environmental impact possible. We took trains to Sweden to interview Greta, charged our hybrid car at George’s house, used green energy to power the edit and recycled archive footage rather than shooting new.'..."
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-20
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Extinction Rebellion"
Date of publication:
2019-07-26
Description:
"We are facing an emergency resulting from our toxic economic and political system. The way we relate to each other and to nature is destroying Earth’s capacity to sustain life.
Unending economic growth and profits drawn from a planet with limited resources is causing gross inequality, poverty, mass misery, and species extinction.
We are sold an illusion that consumption will bring purpose and happiness into our lives, yet this systemic consumption is threatening our very existence. It is based on unjust and unethical land use and ownership, unsustainable and increasing amounts of debt and enslavement of individuals.
Power and money is concentrated in the hands of the few, while the masses struggle to simply survive. It is causing climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.
As Greta Thunberg has been saying since the ‘Declaration of Rebellion’ last October 31:
'We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed.
Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.
So, everyone out there, it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel.’.."
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-20
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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