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Source/publisher:
Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation
Date of publication:
2012-08-31
Description:
These forms relate to the Farmland Rules of 31 August 2012
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-24
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to land, property and planning (texts), Law and policy on land in Burma/Myanmar
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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pdf
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Source/publisher:
US Geological Survey (USGS)
Description:
The USGS "Minerals Yearbook" contains an annual report on the minerals industry of Burma.
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-21
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
US Geological Survey/Bureau of Mines annual reports on the mineral industry of Burma, Minerals and Mining - Burma (general articles and analyses)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
Date of publication:
2012-00-00
Description:
Preliminary: 1. Objectives... 2. Nature and scope..... General matters: 3. Guiding principles of responsible tenure governance... 3A General principles... 3B Principles of implementation... 4. Rights and responsibilities related to tenure... 5. Policy, legal and organizational frameworks related to tenure... 6. Delivery of services..... Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties: 7. Safeguards... 8. Public land, fisheries and forests... 9. Indigenous peoples and other communities with customary tenure systems... 10. Informal tenure..... Transfers and other changes to tenure rights and duties: 11. Markets... 12. Investments... 13. Land consolidation and other readjustment approaches... 14. Restitution... 15. Redistributive reforms... 16. Expropriation and compensation..... Administration of tenure: 17. Records of tenure rights... 18. Valuation... 19. Taxation... 20. Regulated spatial planning... 21. Resolution of disputes over tenure rights... 22. Transboundary matters..... Responses to climate change and emergencies: 23. Climate change... 24. Natural disasters... 25. Conflicts in respect to tenure of land, fisheries and forests..... Promotion, implementation, monitoring and evaluation: "Tenure is the relationship, whether defined legally or customarily, among people with respect to land (including associated buildings and structures), fisheries, forests and other natural resources. The rules of tenure define how access is granted to use and control these resources, as well as associated responsibilities and restraints. Tenure thus usually reflects the power structure in a society, and social stability may depend on whether or not there is a broad consensus on the fairness of the tenure system.".......These Guidelines seek to: 1. improve tenure governance by providing guidance and information on internationally accepted practices for systems that deal with the rights to use, manage and control land, fisheries and forests.... 2. contribute to the improvement and development of the policy, legal and organizational frameworks regulating the range of tenure rights that exist over these resources... 3. enhance the transparency and improve the functioning of tenure systems... 4. strengthen the capacities and operations of implementing agencies; judicial authorities; local governments; organizations of farmers and small-scale producers, of fishers, and of forest users; pastoralists; indigenous peoples and other communities; civil society; private sector; academia; and all persons concerned with tenure governance as well as to promote the cooperation between the actors mentioned..."
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-21
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English)
Format :
pdf pdf
Size:
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Source/publisher:
"International Review of the Red Cross" (Vol. 87 No. 857, March 2005)
Date of publication:
2005-03-00
Description:
Annex to Henckaerts? "Study on customary international humanitarian law: A contribution to the understanding and respect for the rule of law in armed conflict" (see Alternate URL for the text and Annex in English. Only the list of
rules has been translated into Burmese).....
"This list is based on the conclusions set out in Volume I of the study on customary
international humanitarian law. As the study did not seek to determine the
customary nature of each treaty rule of international humanitarian law, it does
not necessarily follow the structure of existing treaties. The scope of application
of the rules is indicated in square brackets. The abbreviation IAC refers to customary
rules applicable in international armed conflicts and the abbreviation
NIAC to customary rules applicable in non-international armed conflicts. In
the latter case, some rules are indicated as being ?arguably” applicable because
practice generally pointed in that direction but was less extensive."
J.- M. Henckaerts
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-17
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format :
pdf
Size:
73.7 KB
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Source/publisher:
Various organisations via Youtube
Description:
A collection of videos, most relating to women?s role in peacemaking in Burma/Myanmar
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-15
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English, Burmese, Karen
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Source/publisher:
"New Mandala"
Date of publication:
2014-12-08
Description:
"It is with sadness I heard this week of the passing of Professor Andrew Huxley of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London...Professor Huxley spent part of his academic career expanding our understanding of Burmese Buddhist law and locating it in the context of the literature on Buddhist law in Southeast Asia. For readers looking for a concise overview of the literature on Burmese Buddhist law published from the 1980s to 2001, his review offers an excellent introduction.
Professor Huxley highlighted the way in which the dhammathats are evidence of the important role that law played under the kings, and that it was not the British who first introduced the rule of law in Burma. He argued that Burmese Buddhist law is relevant and needs to be understood by historians, Pali scholars and lawyers, because it remains the source of personal law for most Buddhists in Myanmar. His work has advocated for the view that the legal system that existed in Burma prior to colonialism was well-developed..."
Melissa Crouch
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Times"
Date of publication:
2012-10-22
Description:
"A network of land-focused civil society organisations has raised concerns that bylaws for two new pieces of land legislation fail to offer proper protection for upland farmers who use shifting cultivation, leaving millions at risk of losing their land tenure rights.
Land Core Group chairman U Shwe Thein said that the recently introduced bylaw for the Farmland Law interprets taungya, or upland farming, as only fields under permanent cultivation. This leaves farmers who practise upland shifting cultivation with little protection from losing their lands..."
Thomas Kean
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-12
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to land, property and planning (commentary), Shifting ("swidden", "jhum", "taungya") cultivation - Burma/Myanmar
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) - AAPPB
Description:
Monthly report of the number of political prisoners in Burma - releases, new detentions, those awaiting trial...Archive from September 2008
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-11
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
East-West Centre
Date of publication:
2000-12-00
Description:
Summary: "For decades, international lenders, agencies, and foundations
as well as national and local governments have spent millions of dollars trying
to ?modernize” the traditional practices of farmers in many mountainous
areas of Southeast Asia—an agenda driven by the belief that their age-old
shifting cultivation practices (known pejoratively as ?slash and burn”) are
deforesting Asia. But a new look at how forests fare under shifting cultivation
(as opposed to under permanent agriculture) clearly demonstrates that efforts
to eliminate the ancient practice have actually contributed to deforestation,
loss of biodiversity, and reduction in carbon storage.1 In fact, shifting cultivation,
rather than being the hobgoblin of tropical forest conservation, may be
ecologically appropriate, culturally suitable, and under certain circumstances
the best means for preserving biodiversity in the region. The real threat to
these tropical forests is posed by the steady advance of large-scale permanent
and commercial agriculture."
Jefferson M. Fox
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-10
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Shifting ("swidden", "jhum", "taungya", "kaingin") cultivation - regional and global, Sustainable agriculture - global and regional
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Burma Link
Description:
Active group with lots of reports and activities..."Burma Link is a non-profit non-governmental organisation that was set up to address vital unmet needs affecting the people of Burma. Burma Link was founded by foreign specialists in the field of ethnic relations and international development together with refugees and migrants from Burma in August 2012 in Mae La refugee camp, Thailand.
The initial idea of creating a website gradually developed into establishing a non-profit organisation that seeks to connect the world with the people of Burma through the use of social media and also through various projects such as interviews, documentaries and events that help the people of Burma have their voices heard in effective and creative ways. We now conduct interviews with people of Burma from all walks of life and have been publishing their stories on our English website since April 2013 and Burmese website since January 2014..."
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-09
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English, Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Source/publisher:
Swedish Burma Committee
Date of publication:
2013-05-00
Description:
Introduction: "Since the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on
Women, Peace and Security in 2000, international consensus has been built around the
need to involve women in peace processes in order for peace building to be sustainable,
democratic and inclusive. This policy framework now includes five resolutions adopted by
the Security Council to promote and protect the rights of women in conflict and post-conflict
situations. The recent 7-point action plan released by the United Nation?s Secretary General
in 2010 reafirmed the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective throughout
all aspects of the peace building process, and identiied several substantive points of action
to increase gender responsiveness...
Despite this, women in Burma are effectively excluded from participating in the negotiations
for peace.
Less than a handful of women have been part of the offcial talks held between
the State and the armed groups, and none of the 12 preliminary ceasefire agreements
reviewed for this report includes any references to gender or women.
The expertise of
local women?s groups in peacemaking and trust building efforts has gone unnoticed, and
concerns raised by women are being sidelined.
The interest by the dominant funders of
the Burmese peace building initiatives, the international community, in advocating for the
increased participation of women or for the mainstreaming of gender responsiveness has
been, at best, inadequate.
This is a worrisome development which requires action from
both international and local actors as the continued exclusion of women risks undermining the legitimacy of the entire process."
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-09
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies)
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
132.39 KB
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Source/publisher:
The Government of Burma
Date of publication:
1943-00-00
Description:
CHAPTER XI. The Economics of Justice:
"The motivation of obedience to custom - objective examination
of the Chin viewpoint essential - the three types of offences: offences
against the person, offences against property and property rights,
offences against the spirits and against spiritual values - the traditional
Zahau fines - disposal of fines - simple process of execution of
legal decrees - the local effect of application of the Penal Code - the
necessity of understanding local economy as pre-requisite of evaluating Chin Justice".
H.N.C. Stevenson F.R.A.I., Burma Frontier Service
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-06
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Customary laws related to justice
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
281.4 KB
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The_Economics_of_Justice.pdf
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Source/publisher:
Government of Burma
Date of publication:
1943-00-00
Description:
CHAPTER VII. Land Tenure:
"Salient differences between tenures in autocratic and democratic
groups rights and claims in autocratic group of chief, headman,
specialists, the whole community, the individual resident
and the individual cultivator the principles governing these rights
and claims the rights and principles of tenure in democratic group
land tenure in practice the "bul ram" individual tenure and its effects
communal land possible solutions to land problems".
H.N.C. Stevenson F.R.A.I., Burma Frontier Service
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-06
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Customary laws related to land
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
717.7 KB
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Source/publisher:
Gender Equality Network (GEN)
Date of publication:
2013-01-00
Description:
"Gender equality recognizes that while women and men are physically different, they are entitled to the same opportunities for self realization and the same human dignity. Enhancing women?s security, establishing institutional practices and laws that do not reinforce power imbalances, and providing appropriate mechanisms for redress ‐‐ are essential elements to ensure equality. Whilst laws and policies may state formally that men and women are equal, they must also take into account the prevailing conditions that prevent women from actually experiencing equality. Myanmar acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1997. As part of its treaty obligations, Myanmar has committed to ensuring that its laws uphold women?s rights and advance women?s equality. This Briefing Paper aims to provide background information relevant to women?s rights and protection in Myanmar, analysis of existing laws and their compliance with CEDAW norms, and comparative experience from three ASEAN neighbours. The Paper supports the creation of Anti‐Violence Against Women Laws as part of larger law reform strategies..."
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-04
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination/violence against women: standards, mechanisms and commentary - international and Myanmar-specific, Myanmar Documents submitted to CEDAW by civil society organisations
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English)
Format :
pdf
Size:
3.97 MB
Local URL:
Myanmar_Laws+CEDAW-bu-ocr-bw-tu-best.pdf
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Source/publisher:
Gender Equality Network (GEN)
Date of publication:
2013-01-00
Description:
"Gender equality recognizes that while women
and men are physically different, they are
entitled to the same opportunities for self
realization and the same human dignity.
Enhancing women?s security, establishing
institutional practices and laws that do not
reinforce power imbalances, and providing
appropriate mechanisms for redress ‐‐ are
essential elements to ensure equality. Whilst
laws and policies may state formally that men
and women are equal, they must also take into
account the prevailing conditions that prevent
women from actually experiencing equality.
Myanmar acceded to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW) in 1997. As part of its
treaty obligations, Myanmar has committed to
ensuring that its laws uphold women?s rights
and advance women?s equality. This Briefing
Paper aims to provide background information
relevant to women?s rights and protection in
Myanmar, analysis of existing laws and their
compliance with CEDAW norms, and
comparative experience from three ASEAN
neighbours. The Paper supports the creation of
Anti‐Violence Against Women Laws as part of
larger law reform strategies..."
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-04
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination/violence against women: standards, mechanisms and commentary - international and Myanmar-specific, Myanmar Documents submitted to CEDAW by civil society organisations
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
2.48 MB
Local URL:
Myanmar_Law+CEDAW-en-red.pdf
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Source/publisher:
Tebtebba Foundation
Date of publication:
2014-00-00
Description:
"Indigenous peoples throughout the world have historically
suffered from the most profound impacts of the extractive
industry sector. In many instances the sector has been
responsible for the destruction of their territories, lead to displacement,
undermined governance structures and resulted
in the loss of traditional livelihoods, with devastating effects on
their self-determination, territorial and cultural rights. These
impacts, which commenced in the colonial era, continue to the
present day. This report provides an overview of the present
state of play of the extractive industries in relation to indigenous
peoples, taking as its point of departure the adoption
of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
(UNDRIP) in 2007, together with the 2009 UN Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues International (UNPFII) Expert
Group Meeting on Extractive Industries, Indigenous Peoples?
Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility, and the 2009
International Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the
Extractive Industries..."
Cathal M. Doyle, Andrew Whitmore
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-04
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
1.17 MB
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Source/publisher:
http://myanmarthilawa.com/
Description:
"The Thilawa Special Economic Zone - located on the outskirts of Yangon - is the first Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to be built in Myanmar, and will be fully (commercially) operational within 2015. Inside Thilawa SEZ, (where) both (the) hard and soft infrastructure - from roads and utilities to supporting services such as maintenance - will be developed up to the international standard...".....
"Demand for Thilawa SEZ land tremendously increased...
Thilawa Management Committee provides students from Project Affected Households and other Project Affected Persons (other family members) with assistance...
Local initial public offering of Thilawa SEZ Public Company completed successfully...
Jobs open up for Project Affected Persons (PAPs)...
Three Japanese industrial biggies will launch special economic zone in Myanmar.....
Latest Download:
Environmental Impact Assessment.pdf...
Basic facts about Thilawa SEZ development (Myanmar version) PDF...
Resettlement Work Plan PDF...
Myanmar SEZ Law PDF.
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-02
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Other Special Economic Zones
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Aljazeera (101 East)
Date of publication:
2014-11-28
Description:
"China?s jade obsession drives a multi-billion dollar black market that fuels a drug-infested jade mining industry....Gold is valuable but jade is priceless, so goes a Chinese saying. For centuries, the Chinese consider jade an imperial stone with mystical properties. Today it is coveted all over China as a status symbol, a collectible and an investment.
Demand from increasingly wealthy Chinese drives the value of jade through the roof. At this year?s Shanghai World Jewellery Expo, auctioneers put the opening bid for top grade jade items at more than $160 a gram, exceeding four times the price of gold.
Intricately designed pieces, made from top grade jade known as jadeite, are viewed as attractive investments despite the lack of scientific valuation methods. In recent years, jadeite has provided better returns than real estate.
But the imperial stone delivers a death sentence to treasure hunters in Myanmar, where China?s jadeite comes from.
Most of Myanmar?s raw jade enters a murky black market. Its official revenue from jade exports over from 2011 to 2014 was $1.3bn. But Harvard University?s Ash Center estimates total jade sales - including through unofficial channels - were $8bn in 2011 alone, suggesting most of the revenue does not go into government coffers.
The Myanmar government will not speak to us on camera. But our investigations reveal a corrupt senior government official who works with businessmen in the illegal trade of raw jade, including helping to falsify tax documents.
In northern Kachin state, we follow jade smugglers to the remote Hpakant mining town, the source of the world?s best jade. The men are part of the government?s border guard force. The officer in charge tells us how he pays off army and police commanders along the smuggling trail to China..."
Chan Tao Chou
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-30
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Gems - mining and trade, Burma: opium and heroin
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Gender Equality Network (GEN)
Date of publication:
2014-11-26
Description:
The full version of this Briefing Paper will be published in February 2015..... Background: "Violence against women is a serious and reprehensible human rights violation that directly and indirectly affects the health, livelihoods and opportunities of women in Myanmar. Civil society actors, government authorities and international agencies increasingly recognize the extent and scope of this issue across the country. However, there has been little rigorous research conducted on this topic among women in Myanmar?s general population. This qualitative study on violence against women helps to fill the gap on what is known about women?s experiences of abuse and violence by their husbands and other men. This Briefing Paper provides a summary of the research findings from the full report. In carrying out this study, GEN collaborated closely with the Department of Social Welfare. The research was also approved by the Ethical Review Committee of the Department of Medical Research, Lower Myanmar. There is increasing interest and investment by the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, as well as national and international actors, to build the evidence base, and to enhance activities to respond to and prevent violence against women across the country. The study was commissioned by GEN, an active inter-agency network, comprising over 100 national and international non-government organisations, civil society organisations, networks and technical resource persons...
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-29
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English)
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pdf pdf
Size:
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Source/publisher:
Gender Equality Network (GEN)
Date of publication:
2014-11-26
Description:
The full version of this Briefing Paper will be published in February 2015.....
Background:
"Violence against women is a serious and reprehensible human rights violation that directly and indirectly affects the health, livelihoods and opportunities of women in Myanmar. Civil society actors, government authorities and international agencies increasingly recognize the extent and scope of this issue across the country. However, there has been little rigorous research conducted on this topic among women in Myanmar?s general population. This qualitative study on violence against women helps to fill the gap on what is known about women?s experiences of abuse and violence by their husbands and other men. This Briefing Paper provides a summary of the research findings from the full report.
In carrying out this study, GEN collaborated closely with the Department of Social Welfare. The research was also approved by the Ethical Review Committee of the Department of Medical Research, Lower Myanmar. There is increasing interest and investment by the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, as well as national and international actors, to build the evidence base, and to enhance activities to respond to and prevent violence against women across the country. The study was commissioned by GEN, an active inter-agency network, comprising over 100 national and international non-government organisations, civil society organisations, networks and technical resource persons..."
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-29
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma
Language:
English
Format :
pdf pdf
Size:
1.1 MB 3.66 MB
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Source/publisher:
BBC Radio 4 (On Language Location - Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2014-10-27
Description:
"Formerly known as Burma, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is in a state of upheaval. Business is booming in Yangon, thanks to new access to international markets. And while the country is offering greater stability for investors, ethnic and political tensions still run high. Burma/Myanmar is a rapidly changing and challenging place.
Anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin travels to Myanmar to explore what these transformations mean for the indigenous ethnic groups that make up much of the population, and specifically for their languages and cultures. Myanmar is a hugely diverse nation: according to a contested recent census, it is home to 135 distinct ethnic groups who are in turn grouped into eight "major national ethnic races." Among them are the Mon, whose Austroasiatic language is still widely spoken and who lay claim to an ancient script that?s used to write Pali and Sanskrit. In highland areas, the states of Chin, Kachin and Shan derive their names from the dominant ethnic groups of the region, but these states are also home to many smaller, distinct communities. To date, the state has focussed on national building around a united Burmese identity rather than supporting minority communities. Official government education policy, for example, still prohibits the teaching of ethnic languages in schools.
Mark Turin speaks to government representatives, teachers, religious leaders and language experts in the field to find out whether these minority languages can survive in 21st Myanmar. Is the growth of English threatening Myanmar?s indigenous languages? What is the role of religion in maintaining linguistic diversity? What does the future hold for Myanmar?s unique tapestry of cultural and linguistic diversity?"
Mark Turin, Mark Rickards
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-29
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Language Education, Languages of Burma - general
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Equal Rights Trust
Date of publication:
2014-02-00
Description:
"...As Thailand continues in its endeavour to strike the right balance between protecting vulnerable
migrants and effectively controlling its porous borders, this repo
rt provides an insight into the human
rights situation of both the long
-‐
staying and recently arrived Roh
ingya population in the country
.
Though there are
not
as many Rohingya in Thailand as there are in
some
o
ther countries in the region,
Thailand
has assu
med an important
geopolitical
position
in the regional picture of Rohingya
displacement and insecurity.
Thailand has the strongest human rights treaty ratification record
amongst th
os
e
countries with significant Rohingya populations.
Furthermore, many of i
ts domestic law
and policy initiatives
would
strengthen protection for the Rohingya, if implemented in an effective and
non
-‐
discriminatory manner.
If
Thailand does act on the recommendations below, it will become a safer, more attractive destination
for Rohingya refugees. Concerns that this will result in an unmanageable increase in new arrivals are
legitimate and must be addressed. There is a danger t
hat any country which
?
in isolation
?
strengthens
its protection framework will be disproportionately burdened. While strengthening protection may
bring new challenges,
continuing to fail
to do so
also
comes at a cost
,
and
is damaging and
unsustainable. T
he individual human cost is documented by this report.
Other
national and regional
costs
include damage
to stability, international relations and reputation. The present regional
stalemate
?
of no country taking decisive protection action
-‐
only serves to
worsen the situation over
the long
-‐
term.
Thailand is well placed to
break this stalemate by
championing a rights
-‐
based response
to the Rohingya issue
and encouraging other states to do so..."
.
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-27
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Muslim refugees in Thailand
Language:
English
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pdf
Size:
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Source/publisher:
Association of Myanmar Archaeologists w
Description:
Well-produced site established by Myanmar Archaeology Students in 2009. Many colour photos, text in English and Burmese, maps etc.
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-27
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Archaeology - General, multiple periods
Language:
English, Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Source/publisher:
Aljazeera
Date of publication:
2014-11-26
Description:
"...Bangladesh has outlined proposals to intern thousands of undocumented Rohingya before repatriation to Myanmar, which they fled because of targeted violence and systematic discrimination, an official Foreign Ministry document obtained by Al Jazeera America reveals.
An estimated 270,000 stateless Rohingya live in overcrowded camps, on the outskirts of already impoverished townships, finding shelter in locals? homes or using plastic sheeting and bamboo to construct huts in forests. An additional 30,000 have official status as refugees, living in U.N.-run camps but lack freedom of movement and the right to employment.
Dhaka announced a new national strategy for the undocumented Rohingya in February but has refused to make the details public. An International Organization for Migration (IOM) official provided the Foreign Ministry?s summary of key proposals to Al Jazeera America.
The document, dated March 31, 2014, reads, ?It has been suggested that a survey/listing of undocumented Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh would be carried out in order to identify them and determine their actual number and location ? The listed individuals would be housed in temporary shelters in different suitable locations pending their repatriation to Myanmar through regular diplomatic/consular channels.”..."
Nigel O'Connor
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-27
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Burmese refugees in Bangladesh
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
World Bank (Agriculture Global Practice East Asia and Pacific Region)
Date of publication:
2014-10-04
Description:
Key findings:
Price fluctuations are common in agricultural markets. However, rice price volatility in Myanmar is more profound than in neighboring rice net-exporter countries like Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand.
The economic liberalization in 2004 removed local trade barriers and this reduced risks and price volatility in the domestic rice market. Even if Myanmar?s price fluctuations decreased in recent years (compared to the mid-2000s), it remains high.
Beyond price volatility, rice prices have risen by 41% between 2009 and 2013. This is much higher than that of rice exporters in neighboring countries like Thailand and Cambodia.
The high concentration of the paddy harvest in November and December is the main cause of rice price volatility. Nearly 70% of paddy is harvested in just two months of the monsoon season. This results into sharp price drops from December to January and spike-ups between May and October.
Production in dry season is small due to a lack of rice varieties with different harvesting periods, growth durations, and appropriate irrigation.
The rice market is fragmented and weakened due to poor roads and low phone coverage. There is also inaccurate information on rice production, consumption, trade, and stocks. Due to the latter, farmers, millers, exporters, and the government often overreact when there are minor price changes. This ignites volatility even further, given that private stocks are too small to buffer price fluctuations.
Poor diversification of export markets also contribute to price volatility. Most of the formal rice exports go to Africa with stable prices. The informal cross-border export to China, in contrast, has been highly unpredictable. The recent closure of informal trade with China is an example of such unpredictability.
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-26
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Rice, Agricultural Economics
Language:
English, Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Executive Summary)
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Women?s League of Burma (WLB)
Date of publication:
2014-11-24
Description:
"The WLB?s new report, ?If they had hope, they would speak?: The ongoing use of state-sponsored sexual violence in Burma?s ethnic communities?, highlights 118 incidences of gang-rape, rape, and attempted sexual assault that have been documented in Burma since 2010, in both ceasefire and non-ceasefire areas. This number is believed to be a fraction of the actual number of cases that have taken place. These abuses—which are widespread and systematic—must be investigated, and may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity under international criminal law..."
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-26
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma, Women and armed conflict - Burma/Myanmar
Language:
English
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pdf
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3.07 MB
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United Nations General Assembly (A /C.3/69/L.32)
Date of publication:
2014-11-21
Description:
Resolution adopted by the 3rd Committee without a vote (by consensus) on 21 November 2014, as orally revised....The revisions are: in the 3rd line of operative paragraph 3, replace "the" with "some" so that "welcomes the steps taken" now reads "welcomes some steps taken"......The last sentence of operative paragraph 11 now ends: "...to establish, without further delay, the office, in accordance with the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights"
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-25
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
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AlJazeera (101 East)
Date of publication:
2014-11-21
Description:
With refugees [including Rohingya] at risk of abuse and exploitation in Malaysia, 101 East investigates if those in charge are doing enough....Forbidden from working or sending their children to school, it is a fragile existence for many as they struggle to survive in society?s shadows.
In this extensive investigation, complete with undercover filming, 101 East exposes the hidden, fear-filled world refugees inhabit in Malaysia and asks, who is going to help them?..."
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-22
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Burmese refugees in Malaysia
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Physicians for Human Rights
Date of publication:
2014-11-00
Description:
Conclusion:
"The displacement in Thilawa took place amid a broader
climate of state-sponsored abuse in Burma, where
people have no recourse to challenge illegal government
action. Specifically, the displacement process in Thilawa
violated residents? human rights, negatively affected
their ability to provide for themselves, and resulted in
deteriorating food security and limited ability to access
health care. The TSEZMC will relocate 846 more
households when development begins on phase two of
the project. If the TSEZMC, the Burmese government,
and JICA continue to operate as they did in the first
phase of the project, these households will suffer the
same fate.
Burma requires economic development, but given the
historical context of forced displacement, impunity for
human rights violations, weak rule of law, and
corruption, there is great risk that economic
development projects will benefit a select few in power
at the expense of deepened deprivation and poverty for
many others. Although the results of this survey cannot
be generalized for the country as a whole, the survey
does highlight risks inherent to any major development
project in Burma. Having recently emerged from more
than 50 years of military dictatorship, it will take time
and commitment to build a strong civil society that is
capable of educating people in Burma about their rights.
Residents generally fear their government, which for
decades has controlled the population by force. The
government has yet to implement sufficient
mechanisms to protect people from human rights
abuses and ensure justice for victims.
Given this context, any development project in the
country carries great risk of human rights violations.
JICA and other organizations implementing such
projects should make every effort to proactively identify
the potential negative outcomes and consult with the
affected community about how best to minimize or
eliminate these risks. The Thilawa case suggests that
foreign organizations cannot rely on the Burmese
government to protect the human rights of forcibly displaced
populations..."
Andrea Gittleman, Widney Brown
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-18
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Burma/Myanmar: "Development"-induced displacement, Other Special Economic Zones, Health impacts of "development" projects
Language:
English, Japanese
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Source/publisher:
Government of Burma
Date of publication:
1707-00-00
Description:
"...The great interest of the ? Wagaru Dhammathat ” lies in its being substantially a law-book of what Sir Sumner Maine considers the modem type. Being based on justice and expediency, it resembles our own law of contract or tort in its easy applicability to all persons in the same civilization without reference to their creeds. This simplicity allows the courts in Burma almost the same scope for applying equity as exists in England..."
Dr. Forchhammer (trans), John Jardine (Preface)
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-18
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format :
pdf
Size:
4.36 MB
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Government of the Union of Burma via "The Burma Code" Vol. XI
Date of publication:
1958-00-00
Description:
These laws, which have various dates, are found in pages 1-116 of Vol. XI of "The Burma Code".....TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART XXII . --PERONAL LAWS: Buddhist:-The Registration of Kittim and options Act?The Hindu Widows? Re-m arriage Act?The Anand Marriage Act?The Hindu Disposition of Property Act?The Caste Disabilities Removal Act?The Hindu Inh eritance (Rem oval of Disabilities) Act?The H indu Law of Inheritance Amendment Act?The Hindu Gains of Learning Act?The Kazis Act ...The Mussalman Wakf Validating Act?The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act?The Church of Scotland Kirk Session Act ...The Christian Marriage Act?The Foreign Marriage Act?The Burma Divorce Act?The Native Converts? Marriage Dissolution Act... - The Special Marriage Act?The Married Women?s Property Act...The Majority Act?The Guardians and Wards Act?The Maintenance Orders Enforcement Act?The Child Marriage Restraint Act?The Slavery Act...The Succession Act?The Administrator-General?s Act?The Legal. Representatives Suits Act? The Rangoon Insolvency Act?The Burma Insolvency Act? The Arbitration (Protocol and Convention) Act?The Arbitration Act, 1944? The Hindu Widows? Re-marriage Act?The Anand Marriage Act?The Hindu Disposition of Property Act?The Caste Disabilities Removal Act?The Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act?The Hindu Law of Inheritance Amendment Act?The Hindu Gains of Learning Act... The Kazis Act?The Mussalm an Wakf Validating Act?The Bar Council Act?The Legal Practitioners Act
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-17
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Statutory law applicable to non-Burman or non-Buddhist peoples, "The Burma Code" Vol. XI, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to Family/Matrimonial/Personal Law (texts)
Language:
English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format :
pdf
Size:
2.88 MB
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Source/publisher:
Karen Rivers Watch
Date of publication:
2014-11-07
Description:
"This report is based on field interviews with local villagers and leaders of Karen armed groups, as
well as media coverage of
the recent conflict.
It describes events that led to recent armed conflict
between the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and the combined force of the Burmese
Army (BA) and Border Guard Force (BGF) in Karen State. Next, the report gives a detailed account
of clashes that occurred along the Salween River in Hpa-an and Hpapun (Mutraw) districts. It also
describes the current situation faced by more than 2,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), many
of whom are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance. It relates accounts of forced labor,
looting of homes, confiscation of property, and increased militarization. Finally, it discusses how
the recent fighting appears to be part of a calculated military strategy by the BA/BGF to control
territory in Karen State, possibly motivated by plans to construct the Hatgyi Dam on the Salween
River.
KRW?s primary goal in releasing this report is to raise awareness about the current situation in
Karen State. Restricted access to the conflict areas has made reporting on the situation difficult.
Confusing and conflicting reports by the media are common, and the Burmese Army even detained
and killed a journalist who was reporting on the conflict.
Many of the IDPs interviewed for this
report refused to answer questions, out of fear for their safety and the safety of their families.
Currently, there is a crucial need for up-to-date and accurate information, and to bring the human
rights violations and need for humanitarian aid to the attention of the international community.
We also aim to highlight the human cost of the recent fighting in Karen State, and to situate recent
events in the context of the broader, decades-long conflict in the region.
In order to ensure the protection of civilians in Karen State,
KRW makes the following
recommendations:.."
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Karen
Language:
English
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ODI, DFID, CEIL PEAKS via Evidence on Demand
Date of publication:
2014-03-14
Description:
Report Summary: "This case study has been produced in response to a request made to the Evidence on Demand Helpdesk. The objective of the request was to write a detailed case study on land tenure reform in a fragile and post-conflict state, Burma, and provide the reader with an understanding of how land tenure reform can work under the country?s particular social, political and economic conditions.
Burma is a fragile state undergoing a period of profound economic and political reform following a period of conflict and isolation. As the poorest country in South Asia, land is the main asset for many people, especially in rural areas where most of Burma?s population lives. However, most farmers have weak tenure security, and in the recent past have been exposed to land expropriation by the Burmese army and the other state institutions of a military dictatorship. Additionally, in conflict-affected border states, the strategy of government forces and non-state armed groups to finance military operations by leasing land to investors has led to land grabbing on both sides.
The recent political changes that have put the country back on the road to civilian rule have profound implications for security of land tenure. Land legislation passed in 2012 is meant to strengthen the formal land administration and provide more rights for landholders, including the right to lease and sell land. It also introduces a system for issuing land use certificates, which the government plans to roll out swiftly over the next few years. At the same time, the government?s policy to open up to foreign investment for large-scale agriculture, mining and industrial zones threatens to place further pressure on access to land. How recent legal reforms translate into land tenure reform, i.e. into changes in the terms and conditions of how land is held and transacted, remains to be seen and depends on whether state institutions desist from, and prevent, further expropriation, and whether the new Farmland Management Boards that administer land at the local level function effectively. Commentators warn that weaknesses in the legal framework potentially disadvantage farmer?s tenure security in the face of powerful state-backed interests; however, evidence suggesting if these fears are confirmed is unavailable. This case study discusses the content of these legal reforms in the context of Burmese politics, noting how some of the changes intended in the laws may have an impact on the tenure security of landholders.
Donors can support improved land administration by increasing dialogue on land issues with political leaders, by funding technical expertise to assist land administration functions and land governance processes, and by highlighting learning experiences from other countries with similar characteristics. They can help rural landholders to improve their security of tenure by funding civil society groups to carry out research and awareness-raising campaigns among landholders, by providing direct training to farmers to better negotiate land sales or leases, and by funding activities that raise the awareness of private sector entities on how to avoid poor practices associated with leasing land."
Giles Henley
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Law and policy on land in Burma/Myanmar
Language:
English
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pdf
Size:
386.73 KB
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The Border Consortium (TBC)
Date of publication:
2014-11-06
Description:
နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၆ ရက်နေ့၊ ၂၀၁၄
ဘန်ကောက်
ဘန်ကောက်ဘန်ကောက်
ဘန်ကောက်/
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/ရန်ကုန်
ရန်ကုန်ရန်ကုန်
ရန်ကုန် - မြန်မာအစိုးရအနေဖြင့် အာဆီယံထိပ်သီး အစည်းအဝေးပွဲအတွက် ပြင်ဆင်နေသည့်အချိန်တွင်၊ စစ်ဘေးဒဏ်ခံစားခဲ့ရသည့်
ပြည်သူများအနေဖြင့်မူ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဖြစ်စဉ် ပြန်လည်ကောင်းမွန်လာနိုင်ဦးမည်လား၊ မည်သို့မည်ပုံကောင်းမွန်လာနိုင်မည်လဲဟု တွေးတောနေကြပါ
သည်။ တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံး အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေး သဘောတူညီချက်အတွက် ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းမှုများမှာလည်း ရပ်ဆိုင်းလုနီးပါးရှိနေပြီး ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာလည်း
၂၀၁၅ခုနှစ် နှစ်ကုန်ပိုင်းကာလတွင် ကျင်းပရတော့မည်ဖြစ်သည်။ သို့သော် ကယ်ဆယ်ရေးနှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးလုပ်ငန်းများ လုပ်ဆောင်နေသည့်
အဖွဲ့အစည်းများညွှန့်ပေါင်းအဖွဲ့၏ အစီရင်ခံစာအရ အမျိုးသားရင်ကြားစေ့ရေးကို ဖြစ်စေနိုင်မည့် တိုင်းရင်းသားများနှင့်ပဋိပက္ခကို ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်း
နိုင်မည့် နိုင်ငံရေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲသည် အလွန်အရေးကြီးသည်ဟုဆိုပါသည်။
အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်း ၁၁ ဖွဲ့သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအရှေ့တောင်ပိုင်းရှိ ရွာစု ပေါင်း ၂၂၂ စု မှ ရပ်ရွာအကြီးအကဲ၊ ခေါင်းဆောင်များ၏ လုံခြုံ
ရေးနှင့် ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်မှုဆိုင်ရာ စိုးရိမ်ပူပန်ချက်များနှင့်ပတ်သက်သည့် အမြင်များကို သုတေသနပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ နယ်စပ်ညွန့်ပေါင်းအဖွဲ့၏
နှစ်ပတ်လည် အထွထွေ အစည်းအဝေးနှင့် အလှူရှင်များဖိုရမ်တို့တွင် တွေ့ရှိချက်များကိုလည်း ဝေမျှခဲ့ပါသည်။ တီဘီစီသည် စစ်မက်ပဋိပက္ခကြောင့်
ထွက်ပြေးလာသည့် ဒုက္ခသည်များအတွက် စားနပ်ရိက္ခာ၊ခိုလှုံရာနေရာနှင့် စခန်းစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုတို့အား ထောက်ပံ့ကူညီခဲ့သည်မှာ နှစ်ပေါင်း ၃၀ခန့် ရှိခဲ့ပြီ
ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
ယခုAစီရင်ခံစာသည် ၂၀၁၁ခုနှစ်ကုန်ပိုင်းမှစတင်ခဲ့သည့် အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးညှိနှိုင်းဆွေးနွေးမှု နောက်ဆုံးအကြိမ်မှ စတင်ပြီး အနိုင်
ကျင့်ခံရမှုများ ပြောင်းလဲလာပုံများကို မှတ်တမ်းတင်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ တိုက်ပွဲများနည်းသွားသော်လည်း သဘာဝသယံဇာတများ ထုတ်ယူခြင်းနှင့် စီးပွားရေး
လုပ်ငန်း လုပ်ကိုင်မှုများ ပိုမိုများပြားလာပြီး စစ်တပ်အင်အားမှာလည်း လျော့နည်းမသွားပေ။
?ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံက ဒုက္ခသည်အနည်းစုပြန်ကြတာ၊ အခြေအနပြန်ကြည့်ကြတာမျိုးဘဲတွေ့ရပါတယ်။ ဒီစစ်တမ်းအရတော့ နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ ထွက်ပြေး
နေရတဲ့သူ(IDP)အရေအတွက်လည်း သိသိသာသာနည်းမသွားဖူးလို့ဆိုရပါမယ်။ နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာထွက်ပြေးရသူတွေ ပြန်လာဖို့၊ နေရာချထားဖို့အတွက်
ပြင်ဆင်ကြတဲ့လုပ်ငန်းတွေကို စစ်တပ်အင်အား ဆက်လက်တိုးချဲ့နေတာနဲ့ မလုံခြုံမှုတွေက အဟန့်အတားဖြစ်စေပါတယ်။” ဟု တီဘီစီ၏ အလုပ်
အမှုဆောင် ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှုး ဆယ်လီသွန်(မ်)ဆင်မှ မှတ်ချက်ပေးခဲ့ပါသည်။
ရာဇဝတ်မှုကြီးများနှင့် အပြင်းအထန် ခိုက်ရန်ဖြစ်ပွားငြင်းခုန်မှုများကို အဓိကဖြေရှင်းပေးသည့်သူများအဖြစ် ကျေးရွာအကြီးအကဲ၊ ခေါင်းဆောင်
များကို သတ်မှတ်ထားကြပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ တရားစီရင်ရေးစနစ်အပေါ် ယုံကြည်မှုပျက်ပြားစေသည့် အကြောင်းများမှာ အကျင့်ပျက်ခြစားမှု၊တရား
စီရင်မှုလုပ်ထုံးလုပ်နည်းများကို မသိရှိခြင်းနှင့် ဥပဒေကိုလိုသလို အသုံးချခြင်းတို့ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
အနိုင်ကျင့်ခံရမှုများနှင့် အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများ ရပ်တန့်သွားစေရန်အတွက် မြန်မာစစ်တပ်များဆုတ်ခွာရန် နှင့် အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲခြင်း အခြေအနေ
ကို စောင့်ကြည့်သည့်စနစ်များဖန်တီးပေးရန်တို့သည် အဓိကဦးစားပေးလုပ်ငန်းများအဖြစ် ဒေသခံများမှထင်မြင်ပါသည်။ ရပ်ရွာခေါင်းဆောင်များက
မိမိတို့၏အခွင့်အရေးများကို တောင်းဆိုတတ်စေရန်နှင့် မျှတသည့် တရားစီရင်မှုရရှိနိုင်စေရန် ရွာသူရွာသားမျာ?
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-12
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Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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The Border Consortium (TBC)
Date of publication:
2014-11-06
Description:
"...The peace process in Burma/Myanmar
is at a critical juncture from which it could evolve into
a transformative national dialogue or splinter into a divisive charade. While hopes for substantive
and inclusive discussion about structural injustice remain, ongoing militarisation and attacks
by the national armed forces
are undermining the confidence of ethnic stakeholders. This report
seeks to highlight the protection and security concerns of conflict-affected communities.
This survey was designed, conducted and analysed by eleven civil society organisations in
collaboration with The Border Consortium (TBC). A stratified sampling method was utilised to
select 222 out of 665 village tracts spread across 23 townships in South East Myanmar.
Community representatives were consulted about militarisation, displacement, security and
justice concerns between May and July 2014. Over 2,600 villagers participated in focus group
discussions structured around a multiple choice questionnaire and supplemented by personal
interviews.
There has been no respite from militarisation since negotiations for preliminary ceasefire
agreements began in 2011. The respective troop strength of both the national armed forces and
the ethnic armed groups was perceived by local communities as comparable, if not greater, in
over 70% of village tracts surveyed. While there has been a reduction infighting, militarisation
is increasingly related to resource extraction and commercial development..."
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2014-11-12
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Individual Documents
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English
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Description of the Burmese Empire, 1833
Date of publication:
1833-00-00
Description:
"This Code is divided into ten volumes, which treat of every thing relating to donations, heirships, and all other matters under the jurisdiction of the courts..."
Vincenzo Sangermano
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-11
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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(Thesis) School of Economics and Finance Curtin University of Technology
Date of publication:
2013-06-00
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Abstract:
"This paper comparatively examines the economic policies of Myanmar in transition with other Asian countries? experiences and test the credibility of the policies with econometric methodology. Comparative studies with other emerging economies and transitional stages offer the opportunity to examine Myanmar?s transitional policies clearly and found out that Myanmar is at the cross road and not focusing on the old pattern of developments of other?s success stories. Myanmar is definitely not focusing on the productivity of agriculture for the surplus transfer to industrialization.
It assesses the development pattern of Myanmar from the theoretical perspective. Growth models mainly address the importance of saving and capitals, human capital, openness to the trade, macroeconomic stability, political stability, technological change and most importantly the surpluses transfer from agriculture to industrialization as key drivers to economic growth.
Based on the Cobb-Douglas production function, this paper tests the credibility whether the economic policy reform of Myanmar is contributing much to the growth and development. It employs the time series data set from IMF staff estimates, World Bank, ADB, MOFA, and the technique of cointegration test within an Autoregressive Distributed Lag Framework (ARDL ) proposed by Pesaran (1997) . The empirical results show that the economic policies of new Myanmar government are not focusing on the right direction to realize the potential gains and last but not least, the paper shades lights on the policy recommendations."
Richard Takhun
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-09
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 2/2014: 91?124
Date of publication:
2014-09-00
Description:
Abstract:
"In an attempt to better grasp the realities of Myanmar?s na-
tional legislature, which was formed after the 2010 elections, this paper
examines the personal profiles and social backgrounds of its elected and
appointed members. I have sought to record data on the social composition of Myanmar?s first ?post-junta” parliament and provide a dataset for
further comparative research on the resurgence of legislative affairs in
the country. The study draws on official publications containing the biographies of 658 national parliamentarians. Focusing on six socio-demographic variables, the findings suggest that the typical Burmese legislator
still closely mirrors the conventional image of Myanmar?s characteristic
postcolonial leader: a man, in his mid-fifties, ethnically Bamar, Buddhist,
holding a Myanmar university degree, engaged in business activities or in
the education sector (in the case of the 492 elected legislators) or in the
security sector (for the 166 military appointees). However, I argue that
the profile of Myanmar?s first post-junta legislature offers a quite unexpected level of diversity that may augur well for the emergence of a new
civilian policymaking elite in Myanmar....
Manuscript received 14 August 2014; accepted 21 September 2014....
Keywords: Myanmar, parliament, legislature composition, parliamentary
elites, sociological profile, Burmese legislator,
Hluttaws
Renaud Egreteau
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-08
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of publication:
2014-09-00
Description:
"Zeid Ra?ad Al Hussein assumed his functions as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 1 September 2014, following the General Assembly?s approval on 16 June 2014 of his appointment by the United Nations Secretary-General. He will be the seventh individual to lead the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the first Asian, Muslim and Arab to do so..."
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-06
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School
Date of publication:
2014-11-05
Description:
Conclusion:
"...This memorandum describes a Myanmar military counterinsurgency offensive that
involved the widespread targeting of civilians in northern Kayin State and eastern Bago
Division. Myanmar Army soldiers fired mortars at villages, opened fire on fleeing
villagers, destroyed homes, laid landmines in civilian locations, forced villagers to work
and porter, and captured and executed civilians. The impact on the population was
massive. Tens of thousands of individuals were displaced during the campaign and many
were killed. In Thandaung Township—the area which was the focus of the Clinic?s
investigation—nearly every village was affected by the Offensive and almost all of the
villagers residing in black areas were forced to flee.
Evidence collected by the Clinic during the investigation demonstrates that the actions
of Myanmar Army personnel during the Offensive constitute crimes under international
criminal law. These crimes include the war crimes of attacking civilians, displacing
civilians, destroying or seizing the enemy?s property, pillage, murder, execution without
due process, torture, and outrages upon personal dignity, and the crimes against
humanity of forcible transfer of a population, murder, enslavement, torture, and other
inhumane acts. The Clinic has also collected evidence relevant to the war crime of rape,
as well as the crimes against humanity of rape and persecution. More research and
analysis is necessary to determine whether these crimes could be included in a criminal
case associated with the Offensive..."
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-06
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Humanitarian Law (reports of violations in Burma), Discrimination against the Karen, Internal displacement/forced migration of Karen villagers, Armed conflict in Karen State - military activities and their impact on village life, including livelihood, health, education and land tenure security
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English
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