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Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project (WCRP)
Date of publication:
2012-01-00
Description:
"Research by the Women and Child Rights Project (WCRP) has demonstrated that grave violations of children?s rights continue to occur in southern Burma despite the creation, by the United Nations, of the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) pursuant to United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1612 on Children and Armed Conflict passed in 2005.
The Burmese government has failed to meet the time-bound action plan under Resolution 1612, demonstrated by the fact that WCRP researchers found numerous accounts of ?grave violations? under United Nations Security Council?s Resolution 1612 on children and armed conflict. These violations, committed by Burmese soldiers against children in southern Burma, include recruitment of child soldiers, killing and maiming, rape and sexual abuse, and forced labor. Though the Burmese government agreed to the implementation of a monitoring and reporting mechanism (MRM), pursuant to Resolution 1612, to report on instances of these grave violations, WCRP has found that abuses have continued unabated since 2005.
The data detailed below provide evidence of widespread and systematic abuses, the vast majority of which were committed by soldiers from the Tatmadaw, the Burmese military. These confirmed cases of grave violations, taken from just 15 villages in two townships, committed over a period of 5 years, suggest that the Burmese government has failed to live up to its obligations under international law to protect children during situations of armed conflict. Limitations imposed by the Burmese government on the UN country team has made it difficult for them to receive, or verify, accounts of grave violations, in turn preventing the MRM from making a noticeable impact on the continued widespread abuse of children in southern Burma. WCRP?s data strongly suggests that the real numbers of abuses against children is vastly greater than officially recognized.
Additionally, despite the fact that WCRP?s primary research covered only the period from 2005 through November 2010, recent updated reports suggest that all of the violations documented by WCRP have continued to occur over the course of the past year. Despite the political changes that may be underway in Naypyidaw, children in areas where armed conflict is ongoing continue to suffer grave violations. Thus, the international community must take further action to ensure that the MRM can effectively protect the rights of Burma?s children and realize the objective put forth in Resolution 1612, an end to the grave violations of children?s rights..."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-27
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Children and armed conflict, Childrens's rights in Mon State - reports of violations, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Women and Child Rights Project, home page, articles and reports, HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
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English
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Source/publisher:
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
Date of publication:
2011-12-00
Description:
[Despite Gen. Thein Sein?s attempts to move
towards democratization or a democratic transition}
"...the Burmese Army still operates military
offensives against ethnic rebel groups in Karen State, Shan State
and Kachin State whilst the government has conducted ceasefire
talks. Human rights violations have continued in these areas and
thousands of ethnic civilians continue to suffer from abuses
committed by troops of the Burmese Army..."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-27
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Language:
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Source/publisher:
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Date of publication:
2012-01-00
Description:
"Burma?s human rights situation remained dire in 2011 despite some significant moves by the government which formed in late March following November 2010 elections. Freedoms of expression, association, and assembly remain severely curtailed. Although some media restrictions were relaxed, including increased access to the internet and broader scope for journalists to cover formerly prohibited subjects, official censorship constrains reporting on many important national issues. In May and October the government released an estimated 316 political prisoners in amnesties, though many more remain behind bars.
Ethnic conflict escalated in 2011 as longstanding ceasefires with ethnic armed groups broke down in northern Burma. The Burmese military continues to be responsible for abuses against civilians in conflict areas, including forced labor, extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, the use of ?human shields,? and indiscriminate attacks on civilians. Despite support from 16 countries for a proposed United Nations commission of inquiry into serious violations of international humanitarian law by all parties to Burma?s internal armed conflicts, no country took leadership at the UN to make it a reality. Foreign government officials expressed their optimism about government reforms despite abundant evidence of continuing systematic repression..."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-23
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Masanobu Fukuoka
Date of publication:
1978-00-00
Description:
An Introduction to Natural Farming
Masanobu Fukuoka
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-22
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Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Myanmar Consolidated Media Co.Ltd.
Date of publication:
2012-01-19
Description:
ပြင်သစ်နိုင်ငံ၏ အမြင့်ဆုံးဆုတံဆိပ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် အား ချီးမြှင့်... "ပြည်သူတွေရဲ့ယုံကြည်မှုကို ဇွတ်အတင်းဖန်တီးလို့မရဘူး"... အမှန် တကယ် ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲ နေပြီဟုယုံကြည်ကြောင်း ?ကန်? အမတ်ပြော... မြန်မာနှင့် စီးပွားရေး မလုပ်ရန် နော်ဝေကုမ္ပဏီများကို အကြံပြု ထားခြင်းကို နော်ဝေအစိုးရ ပြန်ရုပ်သိမ်း... မြန်မာ့ယဉ်ကျေးမှု အမွေအနှစ် ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်မှု ယူနက်စကိုစီမံချက်အတွက်... ယူရို လေးသိန်း ထောက်ပံ့... အင်န်အယ်လ်ဒီ ထံမှ ရရှိသည့်စာရင်းကို စိစစ်ကာ ၃၀၂ ဦးကို လွှတ်ပေးခဲ့ဟုဆို... "တန်ဖိုးရှိတဲ့ သတင်းတွေ ဆိုရင် ပြည်သူက ထမင်းတစ်နပ် မစားရလည်း ဝယ်ဖတ်မယ်"... နောက် တစ်ဖန် အာဏာ သိမ်းမှု ဖြစ်လာနိုင်စရာ အကြောင်းမရှိဟု သူရ ဦးရွှေမန်း ပြောကြား... တာလီဘန်နှင့် ဆက်သွယ်သူ ၁၃ ဦးအား ဖမ်းဆီးထား
... ပြည်ပရောက် အတိုက်အခံ များ ရာဇဝတ်မှုများ ကျူးလွန်ခြင်း မရှိ က ပြန် လာနိုင်... တောင်ကိုရီးယား ရေနံတင်သင်္ဘောပေါက်ကွဲမှု မြန်မာနှစ်ဦး သေဆုံးကြောင်း အတည်ပြု... အင်န်အယ်ဒီက နေပြည်တော်တွင် အောင်နိုင်ရေးအဖွဲ့ ဖွဲ့စည်း... အလုံမြို့နယ်ရှိ သိပ ္ပံဈေးပြန်လည် တည်ဆောက် ရန် ဈေးသူ၊ ဈေးသားများ ဆန္ဒမဲဖြင့် ဆုံးဖြတ်... မြန်မာ တစ်နိုင်ငံ လုံး တွင် ပြန်လည် အအေးလျော့လာမည်... တိုင်းပြည် တိုးတက်ဖို့ ပြည်တွင်း အင်အားရော ပြည်ပအင်အားပါ လိုအပ်ပါတယ်... ကေအိုင်အိုနှင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဆွေးနွေးရန် ရွှေလီသို့ သွားကြပြီ... ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် ဘာသာပေါင်းစုံ ချစ်ကြည်ရေးနှင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးအတွက် ဆုတောင်းပွဲကျင်းပ... ပြင်သစ်၏ အကူအညီ သုံးဆတိုးမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး ပိတ်ဆို့မှု များကို အဆင့်ဆင့်ရုပ်သိမ်းရန်ရှိဟု ပြင်သစ်ဝန်ကြီးဆို... စစ်ဘေး ဒုက္ခသည် တို့ အတွက် အလှူရှင်များ လိုအပ်ဆဲ... တိုင်းပြည်ရဲ့ ပျော်ရွှင်မှုကို ပုံဖော်ခဲ့ တဲ့နေ့ ၂၀၁၂ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၁၃ ရက်... ပြန်လည်လွတ်မြောက်လာသူ တချို့၏အသံများ... ဖဒိုမန်းငြိမ်းမောင်အတွက် လွတ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာခွင့် ကိစ္စကို ဒုတိယအဆင့်အနေဖြင့် စဉ်းစားမည်ဟုဆို... အောင်ဘာလေထီဆု ကျပ်သိန်း ၁,၅၀၀ သို့ တိုးမြှင့်လိုက်သဖြင့် ထီဈေးကွက်ကောင်း လာမည် ဟု မျှော်မှန်း... မြန်မာ လုပ်သားများထံမှ ငွေလွဲှစနစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလဆန်း စတင်နိုင်မည်... အကျိုးတူ ပူးပေါင်းလယ်ယာစနစ် စစ်တမ်းအား လွှတ်တော် မခေါ်မီ အပြီးဆောင်ရွက်မည်... အမေရိကန် စီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်းရှင် အုပ်စု လာမည်... ရခိုင်မှထွက်သည့်သယံဇာတဓာတ်ငွေ့ကို ရခိုင်သို့ခွဲဝေပေးရန် စီမံချက်ရှိ... မြန်မာ့ရေလုပ်ငန်းကဏ္ဍ နိုင်ငံခြားရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှုကို အထူး မျှော်လင့်နေ... ဖားကန့်မှော် ပိတ်သိမ်းပေမယ့် ဈေးကွက်မထိခိုက်... ဧရာဝတီလင်းပိုင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေး၊ ကင်းလှည့်ခရီးစဉ်စတင်... ဆီနှင့်ဆီထွက် သီးနှံဆိုင်ရာ ဆွေးနွေးပွဲ ကျင်းပ... တရုတ်ကြက်သွန်ဖြူ၊ အရည် အသွေး ကောင်း ၍ ပိုမိုသုံးစွဲလာလျက်ရှိ... မန္တလေး၌ တီဘီလူနာ ၄,၀၀၀ ပိုရှာရန် အစီအစဉ်စတင်... HIV- AIDS ဝေဒနာ ခံစားနေရသော ကလေးများ အတွက် ပရဟိတ ဂေဟာဖွင့်လှစ်ရန် နေရာပြောင်း... ကိုလူချောတို့ အဖွဲ့အတွက် ရန်ပုံငွေဗီဒီယိုရိုက်မည်... ချန်ချန်ရဲ့ ဈေးရောင်း ပွဲတော်... ရှေးလက်ရာတွေ ခံစားနိုင်မယ့် ?မြန်မာအလှ?ပန်းချီပြပွဲ... အကယ် ဒမီ ပဟေဠိ အဖြေညှိကြမယ်... ?လွတ်လပ်ခြင်းအနုပညာ? ပွဲတော်မှ ဆုရကားများ စင်ကာပူတွင်ပြမည်... ရွှေကမ္ဘာလုံးပွဲမှာ အောင်ပွဲခံခဲ့တဲ့ "The Artist" ဇာတ်ကား အော်စကာမှာရော အခြေအနေ ကောင်းနိုင် မလား... နှစ်သစ်အစမှာပဲ ပရိသတ် ပေးတဲ့ဆုတွေ အများကြီး ရခဲ့တဲ့ ကေတီပယ်ရီ... ကယမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားတို့ရဲ့ ကြေးခွေပတ် ဓလေ့ ပျောက်ကွယ်သွားတော့မလား... သွေးသံရဲရဲနဲ့ အလဲအကွဲထိုးသတ်ခဲ့ကြတဲ့ ဒဂုံ ရွှေအောင်လံ... ေ
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-21
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Source/publisher:
United Nations - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of publication:
2011-00-00
Description:
"...This publication provides a thorough legal analysis and guidance to
State authorities, human rights and humanitarian actors and others
on the application of international human rights law and international
humanitarian law for the protection of persons in armed conflict. It
addresses, in particular, the complementary application of these two
bodies of law. It does not aim to cover all relevant aspects, but seeks
instead to provide an overview of their concurrent application. It provides
the necessary legal background and analysis of the relevant notions,
in order for the reader to better understand the relationship between
both bodies of law, as well as the implications of their complementary
application in situations of armed conflict..."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-18
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Eleven Media Group
Date of publication:
2012-01-18
Description:
Freedom from Fear နိုင်ငံတော် သမ္မတကြီး၏ လွတ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာ ခွင့်ဖြင့် မြန်မာ နိုင်ငံရေး အနာဂါတ် ခရီး အတွက် အရေးပါသော ခွန်ထွန်းဦး၊ ၈၈မျိုးဆက် ကျောင်းသားခေါင်းဆောင် ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်နှင့် နိုင် ငံရေး ခေါင်းဆောင် များ ပြန်လည်လွတ်မြောက်လာ... နှစ်ပေါင်း ၆၀ ကျော်အတွင်း ကရင်အမျိုးသား အစည်းအရုံး (KNU) နှင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး တည်ဆောက်ရန် ပဏာမ သဘောတူညီချက် ငါးချက် လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုး... မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် နှုန်းထားအမျိုးမျိုးဖြစ်ပေါ်နေသော ငွေလဲနှုန်းကို တစ်မျိုးတည်း အဖြစ် ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ်အတွင်း ပေါင်းစည်းသွားမည်... တရုတ်နိုင်ငံအနေဖြင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် တရားဝင်ရင်းနှီး မြှုပ်နှံမှု စုစုပေါင်း ၏ ၃၅ ရာခိုင်နှုန်းနီးပါးရှိနေ... ဈေးကွက်အတွင်းရောင်းချနေသည့် အလှကုန်ပစ္စည်း အချို့ ၌ အရေပြားကင်ဆာအပါအဝင် အရေပြား ရောဂါများဖြစ်နိုင်သော တာမြစ်ထားသည့် ဟိုဒရိုကွီနုန်းအမည်ရှိ ဓာတုပစ္စည်းပါဝင်နေကြောင်း တွေ့ရှိ...
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-17
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Source/publisher:
The Arakan Project
Date of publication:
2012-01-19
Description:
For the Examination of the combined 3rd and 4th periodic State Party
Reports (CRC/C/MMR/3-4)
-MYANMAR - Updated
in January 2012....."...The Muslim population of Northern Rakhine State, known as Rohingya2, constitutes
an ethnic, linguistic and religious minority group in Myanmar. Their number is
estimated at 735,000 or about 91% of the total population of that area3. They are
ethnically related to the Chittagonian Bengalis just across the border in Bangladesh.
The Rohingya are discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity and religion,
and are subject to systematic state policies of exclusion, restrictions and arbitrary
treatment imposed on them by successive governments over the last few decades.
These policies were the root causes of two mass refugee exoduses to Bangladesh,
in 1978 and again in 1991/92. The outflow has not stopped and today Rohingyas
continue to flee from Myanmar. In addition to 29,000 registered refugees housed in
two refugee camps, Bangladesh currently hosts 200,000 or more unregistered
Rohingya refugees living among local communities. Tens of thousands have also
migrated to Malaysia and the Middle-East, including thousands of boat people.
Rohingya children, in particular, bear the full brunt of the devastating impact of these
policies, which gravely impair their physical and mental development as children and
will affect the long-term future of their community..."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-16
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Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Karen National Union
Date of publication:
2012-01-14
Description:
"• The 19-member KNU delegation held talks with Railways Minister, U Aung Min, and other
representatives of the Burmese government on 12-1-2012, in Pa-an.
• The KNU delegation reached an initial agreement with the Burmese government?s representatives
towards a ceasefire agreement. When the delegation returns to our headquarters, the KNU leadership
will discuss about subsequent steps required in this dialogue with the Burmese government.
• The KNU welcomes the report by its delegation that the Burmese government?s representatives agreed,
in principle, to the eleven-point proposal, which the KNU presented in the talks. The KNU leadership will
take further steps to continue concrete discussions on how the terms and conditions of the proposal will
be materialized on the ground, in detail, before both sides can agree on the final ceasefire agreement.
• The eleven points of the KNU proposal are:..."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-14
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Individual Documents
Category:
Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies)
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Karen News
Date of publication:
2012-01-13
Description:
"Yesterday, a 19-member Karen National Union delegation held talks with Burma government representatives, led by Railways Minister, Aung Min, in Pa-an, Karen State to discuss a ceasefire agreement. A KNU spokesperson confirmed to Karen News what the talks had achieved.
?The KNU delegation reached an initial agreement with the Burma government?s representatives towards a ceasefire agreement. When the delegation returns to our headquarters, the KNU will continue to discuss about subsequent steps in this negotiation with the Burmese government.?
The KNU spokesperson said the KNU welcomed the Burma delegation?s agreement-in-principle to the 11 key points they presented at the Pa-an talks..."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies)
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English
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Source/publisher:
Government of the Union of Burma
Date of publication:
1898-07-01
Description:
အကျဉ်းသား၊ အကျဉ်းသ ူ (၆၅၁)ဦးအား ပြစ်မှုဆိုင်ရာကျင့ ်ထုံးဥပဒေပုဒ်မ ၄ဝ၁၊ ပုဒ်မခွဲ(၁)အရ လွတ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာခွင့ ်ပြု ခဲ့သည်ဟု ရေးသားဖေါ်ပြခဲ့...
ပြစ်မှုဆိုင်ရာကျင့ ်ထုံးဥပဒေပုဒ်မ ၄ဝ၁၊ အပြည့်အစုံ ကို ဖေါ်ပြပါသည်။
(ပြစ်ဒဏ်များကို ဆိုင်းငံ့ထားခြင်း၊ လွတ်ငြိမ်းသက်သာခွင့်ပေးခြင်းနှင့် လျှော့ပေါ့ ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း)...This legislation was cited in the release of prisoners, 13 June 2012
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
The Code of Criminal Procedure (Burmese)
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Government of the Union of Burma
Date of publication:
1898-07-01
Description:
Legislation cited in the release of prisoners, 13th January, 2012
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
The Code of Criminal Procedure (English)
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English
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Asian Human Rights Commission
Date of publication:
2011-04-07
Description:
"The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the case of a group of farmers who lodged a complaint about attempts of an army-owned company and the powerful Htoo Company to acquire their land at a greatly undervalued amount. The farmers? complaint was rejected in court on grounds that the land was being acquired for a government project, even though the company is private. After, the company and army officers involved organized for a gang to ambush and attack a group of the farmers and to have a false criminal case lodged against them. The case has gone to court very quickly and it looks as if the court is getting orders to punish the farmers severely as a way to frighten the other farmers to stop opposing the army-backed construction project..."....Land rights; judicial system; fabrication of charges; corruption...
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-10
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Farmers? Rights Defenders Network/ လယ်သမားအခွင့်အရေးကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်သူများကွန်ယက်
Date of publication:
2012-01-10
Description:
BURMA: Farmers? land fight celebrated in new booklet...
(Hong Kong, January 10, 2012) A Burma-based rights group has released a new publication documenting and recounting the courageous fight against land expropriation, intimidation and false prosecution of a group of rural villagers.
The 38-page Burmese language booklet, "Forced expropriations of farmlands and partial victories", written and published by the Farmers? Rights Defenders Network, retells the story of the villagers of Sissayan, in Magway, part of the country?s dry central zone, who have been struggling against the attempts of army-backed companies to take over their land for use by factories that will produce toxic substances.
The Asian Human Rights Commission issued an urgent appeal in April about an attack and false prosecution of a group of the farmers leading the fight against the army-backed companies in Sissayan: http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-073-2011
Although a court convicted the farmers, the village community rallied around them, as told and illustrated through photographs in the new booklet, and on appeal their sentences were reduced to the time already served.
အမှာစာ... လယ်ယာမြေအဓမ္မသိမ်းယူမှုများနှင့်အောင်ပွဲအပိုင်းအစများ(မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ သရက်ခရိုင်၊ ကံမမြို့နယ်၊ စစ္စရံကျေးရွာ)... သိမ်းပိုက်ခံလယ်မြေများနှင့် စက်ရုံပြင်ဆင်တည်ဆောက်မှုများ (ဓာတ်ပုံ)... အာဏာပိုင်များအား တရားစွဲဆိုခဲ့သည့် လယ်သမားများ (ဓာတ်ပုံ)... လယ်သမားအခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ ဟောပြောမှုအား နားထောင်ကြစဉ် (ဓာတ်ပုံ)... ရွာသူရွာသားများ တရားခွင်သို့ စုစည်းညီညွတ်စွာ လိုက်ပါအားပေး နားထောင်ကြ (ဓာတ်ပုံ)... လယ်သမားများ ပြန်လည်လွတ်မြောက်လာမှုကို
ဒေသခံပြည်သူများ ကြိုဆိုခဲ့ (ဓာတ်ပုံ)...
(ယခုတင်ပြလိုက်သော စာအုပ်ပါအကြောင်းအရာများမှာ လယ်သမားတို့သည်
ရိုးသားစွာ လုပ်ကိုင်စားသောက်နေသူများဖြစ်ပြီး မတရားမှုများကို မိမိတို့၏ စုစည်းမှုအားဖြင့် တွန်းလှန်၍ တရားမျှတမှုကို ရှာဖွေတိုက်ပွဲဝင်ခဲ့ကြသည့် ဖြစ်ရပ်တခုအား စံနမူနာပြုနိုင်ရေးကို ရည်ရွယ်၍ ထုတ်ဝေဖြန့်ချိလိုက်ခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။)
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-10
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Source/publisher:
Chinland Guardian
Description:
News
Recent News
News feeds
Khonumthung News
News Archived
Articles
Interviews
Poems
Cartoons
Multimedia
Audio
Photos
Video
Election..."Chinland Guardian is an independent, internet-based news agency committed to providing reliable news and current issues about Chinland and Burma through a balanced, objective and professional reporting. Recognizing that access to information is a universal human right and that media plays an important role in a democratic society, Chinland Guardian will strive to fill in the information vacuum that has been created by decades of information blackout in Chinland and in Burma..."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-10
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
"Chinland Guardian"
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
The Arakan Project
Date of publication:
2011-08-22
Description:
Submission to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) for consideration by the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) – ILO Convention 29
22 August 2011..."This report, prepared by the Arakan Project, documents and analyses forced labour practices in North Arakan State/North Rakhine State of Burma/Myanmar over the 9-month period which followed the national elections of 7 November 2010 that brought a new ?civilian? government to power. It aims to provide information to the International Trade Unions Confederation (ITUC) to be incorporated in their annual submission to the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) reviewing Myanmar?s compliance with ILO Convention 29. It updates our previous report ?Forced labour in times of elections? dated 24 August 2010, covering practices in the run-up to the elections in 2010.
This submission is based on field reports transmitted by sources within North Arakan and on 13 interviews with Rohingya visitors and seasonal migrants carried out along the Bangladesh-Burma border between March and July 2011. It includes an analysis of trends and practices while relevant excerpts from these 13 testimonies have been included as annexes...Conclusion: Following national elections on 7 November 2010, a new civilian government was sworn in on 30 March 2011. But, for the Rohingya villagers in North Arakan, nothing has changed. Forced labour is as pervasive as ever and there was even a spike in forced labour demands just after the elections around the end of the year. Even though a budget has been allocated to pay fair wages for work on strategic infrastructure construction projects such the border fence and certain roads, villagers at the grassroots level have hardly benefitted and the funds have disappeared in cuts by the NaSaKa and other authorities. So far, no serious measures have been implemented for the purpose of eradicating forced labour."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-10
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Rohingya
Language:
English
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Karen National Union (KNU)
Date of publication:
1993-12-00
Description:
LETTER TO GENERAL THAN SHWE (1) (from DAB, April 1993); LETTER TO GENERAL THAN SHWE (2)(from DAB, August 1993); THE SLORC BECOMES SO AFRAID; "THE WAY TO PEACE" -
PAPER PRESENTED BY Dr. Em MARTER AT THE INTERNATIONAL BURMA CONFERENCE
(BERLIN, GERMANY 16-18 APRIL, 1993}; Resolution on Karen National Day; "Let us establish a Federal Union"; CENTRAL ORGANIZING DEPARTMENT MEETING; Memo: for the Human Rights Monitoring Organizations.
From the Political Defiance Committee of the NCUB; THIRD NCUB MEETING HELD IN MANERPLAW; FIRST CONGRESS OF THE DAB; Urgent Request:
To the parents, mentorsi monks, sons and daughter, and wives
concerned:-; Letter to Senior General Than Shwe from DAB, 1 December 1993,expressing its willingness: "to officially hold negotiation
for internal peace and the development of the country..."; The Atrocities and Human rights
committed by the SLORC Army;
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-05
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
"KNU Bulletin"
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
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5.02 MB
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The Kuki Women?s Human Rights Organization (KWHRO)
Date of publication:
2011-12-00
Description:
"The Burmese military government, together with
the government of India, is planning to build a giant
hydroelectric dam near Tamanthi on the Chindwin River
in northwest Burma?s Sagaing Division. The dam?s fl ood
reservoir will be almost 1,400 sq km, the size of Delhi, and
will permanently displace over 45,000 people, including
the entire town of Khamti. Already over 2,400 people have
been relocated at gunpoint from the dam site, without fair
compensation.
The Tamanthi dam will adversely affect the biodiversity
and ecological balance of the entire Chindwin River, which,
as the largest tributary of the Irrawaddy, acts as a major
watershed for the whole country. Although the dam will
bring about massive changes to the Chindwin, the entire
dam building process has been shrouded in secrecy, and
there has been a complete lack of public participation in
decision making.
Local indigenous Kuki people have been nourished by the
Chindwin for generations, and are determined to protect
the river from this destructive project. We therefore urge
the Burmese regime and Indian government to immediately
cancel the Tamanthi dam."
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-03
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Dams and rivers - articles, reports, resources, Dams and other projects on rivers in Burma/Myanmar (countrywide), Internal displacement/forced migration of the Kuki and other groups along the Chindwin River
Language:
Kuki, Burmese and English
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Wikipedia
Description:
"The Burmese language (Burmese: မွနျမာဘာသာ; pronounced [mjəm? b???]; MLCTS: myanma bhasa) is the official language of Burma. Although the constitution officially recognizes it as the Myanmar language,[1] most English speakers continue to refer to the language as Burmese. Burmese is the native language of the Bamar and related sub-ethnic groups of the Bamar, as well as that of some ethnic minorities in Burma like the Mon. Burmese is spoken by 32 million as a first language and as a second language by 10 million, particularly ethnic minorities in Burma and those in neighboring countries.
Burmese is a tonal, pitch-register, and syllable-timed language,[2] largely monosyllabic and analytic language, with a subject–object–verb word order. It is a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family, which is a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. The language uses the Burmese script, derived from the Old Mon script and ultimately from the Brāhmī script..."
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-31
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Burmese
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Source/publisher:
Federation of Trade Unions-Burma (FTUB)
Date of publication:
2002-05-06
Description:
"..The objective of this report is to help the policy makers with an analysis of the
international sanctions effect and to try to explain the real current economic and social
conditions, impact on and Burma?s urgent need to combat poverty. Moreover, also try
to present the relationship between macro economic situation such as economic
growth, foreign trade, state budget, inflation, employment, wages and the conditions
of freedom, equity, security and human dignity in Burma. In addition, to explain how
the Burmese generals and their crony drug lords exploit the Burmese economy, and
how the Burmese military has become the sole beneficiary of foreign direct investment
by setting up its own industries separately from the state enterprises since 1988. And
also would like to explain the impact on the military?s confiscation of land, labor, crops
and capital assets or militarization on the whole economy..."
Sein Htay
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-30
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar: Ministry Of Rail Transportation
Date of publication:
2011-08-21
Description:
မြန်မာ့မီးရထား လက်ရှိအခြေအနေ နှင့် ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ ဆန်းစစ် သုံးသပ်ချက်... မြန်မာ့မီးရထား၏ အဓိကတာဝန်... မြန်မာ့မီးရထား၏ ရည်မှန်းချက် တာဝန်... မြန်မာ့မီးရထား၏ လက်ရှိပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုများ ... ဝန်ဆောင်မှုပေးခြင်းနှင့် ဝင်ငွရှောဖွခြေင်း ... ဝင်ငွနှေင့် အသုံးစရိတ်အခြေအနေ ... ရထားလုပ်ငန်းကုန်ကျစရိတ် ... ကုန်ကျစရိတ်လျှော့ ချရေးနှင့် စွမ်းဆောင်ရည်မြင့်မားရေး... စိန်ခေါ်မှုများ ...
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-30
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Source/publisher:
Wikipedia
Description:
About 10,000 items...Use Myanmar-3...A number of Health topics
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-30
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
Burmese
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Source/publisher:
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Description:
"Created in 1985, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is today the main coalition of international non-governmental organisations (NGO) fighting against torture, summary executions, enforced disappearances and all other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. With 311 affiliated organisations in its SOS-Torture Network and many tens of thousands correspondents in every country, OMCT is the most important network of non-governmental organisations working for the protection and the promotion of human rights in the world.
Based in Geneva, OMCT?s International Secretariat provides personalised medical, legal and/or social assistance to hundreds of torture victims and ensures the daily dissemination of urgent appeals across the world, in order to protect individuals and to fight against impunity. Specific programmes allow it to provide support to specific categories of vulnerable people, such as women, children and human rights defenders. In the framework of its activities, OMCT also submits individual communications and alternative reports to the special mechanisms of the United Nations, and actively collaborates in the development of international norms for the protection of human rights.
OMCT enjoys a consultative status with the following institutions: ECOSOC (United Nations), the International Labour Organization, the African Commission on Human and Peoples? Rights, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, and the Council of Europe."
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-28
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Detentions, Trials, Independence of the Judiciary: specialist NGOs, Torture, freedom from: specialist NGOs
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)
Date of publication:
2011-12-23
Description:
"...The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), AAPP has been verifying
the political prisoner database in attempts to publicly account for each individual who has
been unjustly detained and arrested for exercising their fundamental freedoms. AAPP can
now verify there are at least 1,572 individuals in Burma who have been arrested and
sentenced on political grounds and are believed to currently be in prison.
There is an ongoing secondary verification process to confirm their current
whereabouts, for example, whether they are in prison or have been released. The
verification process is currently underway, and this does not mean there are only 918
political prisoners in Burma. AAPP maintains that the number of political prisoners is likely
much higher, given the lack of access and reliable information in remote ethnic areas,
monasteries, and during periods of mass arrests, compounded by the absolute lack of
prison transparency in Burma. The number of verified political prisoners will continue to
increase as the verification process continues, and AAPP will make sure to provide the
public with consistent updates as to progress made..."
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-27
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Ministry of Finance and Revenue, Central Bank of Myanmar
Date of publication:
2011-08-21
Description:
ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှင့် အခွန်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန... မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဗဟိုဘဏ်... မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဘဏ်လုပ်ငန်း ကဏ္ဍတိုးတက်ဖြစ်ပေါ်မှု ... နိုင်ငံပိုင်စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းများစွမ်းဆောင်မှုအရည်အေသွေးမြင့်မားရန်၊...
ပုဂ္ဂလိကစီးပွားရေးကဏ္ဍကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့်တိုးတက်စေရန်၊...
နိုင်ငံတော်၏ဒေသအသီးသီးဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်စေရန်၊ ... ဘဏ်လုပ်ငန်းသည်စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းများအတွက်အဓိကမောင်းနှင်အား... ဘဏ်သမိုင်း ... ဈေးကွက်စီးပွားရေးစနစ်အတွက်ဘဏ်များတည်ထောင်ခြင်း... ဈေးကွက်စီးပွားရေးစနစ်အတွက်ဘဏ်ဥပဒေများပြဌာန်းခြင်း ... ဈေးကွက်စီးပွားရေးစနစ်အတွက်ဘဏ်များတည်ထောင်ခြင်း ... အပ်ငွေလုပ်ငန်း ... ချေးငွေလုပ်ငန်း ... ချေးငွေအမျိုးအစားများ ... ငွေချေးသည့်နည်းလမ်းများ ... အာမခံအမျိုးအစားများ ... ဘဏ်ဝန်ဆောင်မှုလုပ်ငန်းများ ... ဘဏ်များကိုကြီးကြပ်ခြင်း ... ဘဏ်များတည်ငြိမ်မရှိအောင်ဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်း ... ဘဏ်များကိုအကဲဖြတ်ခြင်း ... ဘဏ်၏ဆုံးရှုံးနိုင်ခြေ စီမံခန့်ခွဲခြင်း... နိုင်ငံပိုင်ဘဏ်နှင့် ပုဂ္ဂလိကဘဏ် များ၏ အပ်ငွေများအား နှိုင်းယှဉ်မှုအခြေအနေ ... နိုင်ငံပိုင်ဘဏ်နှင့် ပုဂ္ဂလိကဘဏ် များ၏ ချေးငွေများအား နှိုင်းယှဉ်မှုအခြေအနေ ... ၃၁•၃•၂ဝ၁၁ ရက်နေ့ရှိ နိုင်ငံပိုင်ဘဏ်နှင့် ပုဂ္ဂလိကဘဏ်များ၏ လုပ်ငန်း အမျိုးအစား အလိုက်ချေးငွေ ထုတ်ချေးထားမှု အခြေပြဂရပ် ... ၃၁•၃•၂ဝ၁၁ ရက်နေ့ရှိ နိုင်ငံပိုင်ဘဏ်နှင့် ပုဂ္ဂလိကဘဏ်များ၏ အာမခံ အမျိုးအစား အလိုက်ချေးငွေ ထုတ်ချေးထားမှု အခြေပြဂရပ် ... နိုင်ငံပိုင်ဘဏ်နှင့် ပုဂ္ဂလိကဘဏ်များ ထည့်ဝင်ပြီး မတည်ငွေရင်း၊ အပ်ငွေနှင့်ချေးငွေ အခြေအနေ
၃၁•၃•၁၉၉၄ မှ ၃၁•၃•၂ဝ၁၁ အထိ... ပုဂ္ဂလိကဘဏ်များ၏ (၃၁•၃•၁၉၉၄) မှ (၃၁•၃•၂ဝ၁၁) ရက်နေ့ထိ ထည့်ဝင်ပြီး မတည်ငွေရင်း၊ အပ်ငွေနှင့်ချေးငွေ အခြေအနေ ... ပုဂ္ဂလိကဘဏ်များ၏ အရင်း/ အတိုးပေး ဆပ်ရန် ပျက် ကွက်သောချေးငွေများ အချိုး ၃၁•၃•၂ဝဝ၂ မှ၃၁•၃•၂ဝ၁၁ အထိ ... မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဘဏ်များအသင်း ... ဘဏ်လုပ်ငန်း ကျွမ်းကျင် သူများမွေး ထုတ်ခြင်း... Banking Network ... Payment System Development ... Myanmar Payment Union Card (MPU Debit Card) ... Deposit Insurance ... ဆက်လက်ဆောင်ရွက်ရမည့်လုပ်ငန်းများ ...
U Thein Zaw ဦးသိန်းဇော် (ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး)
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-27
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Al Jazeera (101 East)
Date of publication:
2011-08-11
Description:
"For more than 60 years, Karen rebels have been fighting a civil war against the government of Myanmar...In February 1949, members of the Karen ethnic minority launched an armed insurrection against Myanmar?s central government.
In pictures: Sixty years of war.
Over 60 years later, the conflict continues, with more than a dozen ethnic rebel groups waging war against the army in their fight for self-rule.
Now, the war is entering a new and bloody stage.
Myanmar is the only regime still regularly planting anti-personnel mines. But it is not only the army that uses them. Rebel groups also regularly use homemade landmines or mines seized from the military.
As the conflict escalates, civilians are trapped in the middle of some of the worst fighting in decades.
101 East travels to Myanmar, home to the world?s longest running civil war."
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-27
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Individual videos and films on Burma in English and other non-Asian languages, Karen and other refugees from Burma in Thailand - general reports and articles, Internal displacement/forced migration of Karen villagers, Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar, Non-Ceasefire Groups, Armed conflict in Karen State - general articles and reports
Language:
English, Karen (English sub-titles)
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Source/publisher:
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, via Ministry of Labour
Date of publication:
2011-10-11
Description:
Official version (on the site of the Ministry of labour)... This law came into force on the 9th March 2012, though it is not entirely clear to the Librarian whether the Legislature has adopted the enabling regulations and whether the amended Trade Disputes Act (now called The Settlement of Labour Dispute Law) contains all the conciliation mechanisms referred to in the LOL.
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-23
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw: Laws and bylaws/rules/regulations proposed (bills) and/or adopted in 2011, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to labour (texts), Burma/Myanmar laws, decrees and regulations (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw), 2011
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication:
2011-10-11
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-23
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw: Laws and bylaws/rules/regulations proposed (bills) and/or adopted in 2011, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to labour (texts), Burma/Myanmar laws, decrees and regulations (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw), 2011
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Source/publisher:
Hesperian Foundation
Date of publication:
2012-07-00
Description:
"?Where There Is No Dentist? is a book about what people can do for
themselves and each other to care for their gums and teeth. It is written for:
• village and neighborhood health workers who want to learn more
about dental care as part of a complete community-based approach to
health;
• school teachers, mothers, fathers, and anyone concerned with
encouraging dental health in their children and their community; and
• those dentists and dental technicians who are looking for ways to
share their skills, to help people become more self-reliant at lower cost.
Just as with the rest of health care, there is a strong need to
?deprofessionalize? dentistry—to provide ordinary people and community
workers with more skills to prevent and cure problems in the mouth. After
all, early care is what makes the dentist?s work unnecessary—and this is the
care that each person gives to his or her own teeth, or what a mother does
to protect her children?s teeth...".....Read online or download (3.7MB)...Originally published 1983; last revised 2011.
Murray Dickson
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-22
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
3.69 MB
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Source/publisher:
Hesperian Health Guides
Date of publication:
2011-00-00
Description:
"This handbook has been written primarily for those who live far from medical
centers, in places where there is no doctor. But even where there are doctors, people
can and should take the lead in their own health care. So this book is for everyone who
cares. It has been written in the belief that:
1. Health care is not only everyone?s right, but everyone?s responsibility...
2. Informed self-care should be the main goal of any health program
or activity...
3. Ordinary people provided with clear, simple information can prevent and
treat most common health problems in their own homes—earlier, cheaper,
and often better than can doctors...
4. Medical knowledge should not be the guarded secret of a select few, but
should be freely shared by everyone...
5. People with little formal education can be trusted as much as those with a
lot. And they are just as smart...
6. Basic health care should not be delivered, but encouraged.....
Clearly, a part of informed self-care is knowing one?s own limits. Therefore
guidelines are included not only for what to do, but for when to seek help. The book
points out those cases when it is important to see or get advice from a health worker
or doctor. But because doctors or health workers are not always nearby, the book also
suggests what to do in the meantime—even for very serious problems...".....The Hesperian.org site provides links to the 23 individual chapters, for easy download."
David Werner; with Carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-22
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Hesperian Health Guides
Description:
"Hesperian Health Guides are easy to use, medically accurate, and richly illustrated. We publish 20 titles, spanning women?s health, children, disabilities, dentistry, health education, HIV, and environmental health, and distribute many others. Buy, download, or read from this page, or view resources by language to explore materials in Spanish and over 80 other languages..."
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-22
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English and other languages
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Source/publisher:
WEAVE/Hesperian Health Guides
Date of publication:
2011-00-00
Description:
Summarized and Translated by Women?s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE).... Foreword: "Health is a right; and like all other human rights it applies to everybody, particularly those person
living in deplorable conditions. Quality health services must be based on poor people?s
particularly poor women?s needs.
Historically, women have been at a disadvantaged on account of neglect and discrimination in
treatment by the state and societal institutions in most parts of the world. This leads to
marginalization of women as attributed by the lack of opportunity and indignities perpetrated by
discriminatory legal systems.
We are very pleased to offer this new adapted Burmese version of the book entitled Where
Women Have No Doctor which combines self-help medical information with an understanding
of the way of poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs that limit women?s health and access to
care. The book aims to empower women to improve their health and to support community
health workers who continue to improve women?s health.
Our special thanks go to the women and men behind the publication of this book whose
immeasurable contribution led to the completion work. Moreover, to the Hesperian Foundation,
without the generous support of, this book will not come into fruition.
Moreover, we dedicate this book to the Burmese women who continue to be marginalized.
May this book offer relief and support to you.".....The Hesperian site provides the full text in high resolution and links to individual chapters...
"An essential resource for any woman or health worker who wants to improve her health and the health of her community, and for anyone to learn about problems that affect women differently from men. Topics include reproductive health, concerns of girls and older women, violence, and mental health..."
A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, Katharine Shapiro...translated by Women’s Education for Advancement, Empowerment (WEAVE)
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-22
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese
Format :
pdf
Size:
3.7 MB
Local URL:
Where_women_have_no_doctor(bu).pdf
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Source/publisher:
Hesperian Health Guides
Date of publication:
2010-00-00
Description:
"This book was written to help women care for their own health, and to help
community health workers or others meet women?s health needs. We have tried to
include information that will be useful for those with no formal training in health care
skills, and for those who do have some training.
Although this book covers a wide range of women?s health problems, it does not
cover many problems that commonly affect both women and men, such as malaria,
parasites, intestinal problems, and other diseases. For information on these kinds of
problems, see Where There Is No Doctor or another general medical book.
Sometimes the information in this book will not be enough to enable you to solve
a health problem. When this happens, get more help. Depending on the problem, we
may suggest that you:
• see a health worker. This means that a trained health
worker should be able to help you solve the problem.
• get medical help. This means you need to go to a
clinic that has trained medical people or a doctor, or a
laboratory where basic tests are done.
• go to a hospital. This means you need to see a doctor
at a hospital that is equipped for emergencies, for
surgery, or for special tests..."......The Hesperian site provides the full text in high resolution and links to individual chapters. The OBL Alternate URLs are to the full text in low and medium resolution... See also the Burmese version on the OBL and Hesperian sites.
A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, Katharine Shapiro
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-22
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
Format :
pdf pdf
Size:
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Source/publisher:
UN Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Date of publication:
2011-12-00
Description:
"...Opium Poppy Cultivation:
In 2011, for the fifth year in a row, opium poppy cultivation increased in Myanmar. The total area
under opium poppy cultivation was estimated at 43,600 ha, an increase of 14% compared to 2010
(38,100 ha). This upward trend started in 2007 after six years of decline between 2001 and 2006.
Shan State accounted now for 91% of opium production in Myanmar, while the largest increase in
poppy cultivation was observed in Kachin State (+27%). In Shan State most of the increase in the
area cultivated took place in South Shan (+21%) followed by North Shan (+17%). There was no
significant change in East Shan (+1%)...Opium yield and production
In 2011, the national average opium yield was estimated at 14.0 kg per hectare, which represents a
decrease of 8% compared to last year?s yield. Nevertheless, the larger area under cultivation
resulted in an increase in total opium production of 5%, from 580 mt in 2010 to 610 mt in 2011...
Opium prices:
Opium prices in Myanmar have significantly increased in 2011. The average farm-gate price of
opium (weighted by the estimated area under cultivation) was US$ 450/kg in 2011, up some 48%
from US$ 305/kg in 2010. Opium prices have continued to increase since 2002. The most recent
increase can be explained by the strong demand in opium from neighbouring countries as well as
the depreciation of the Kyat against the US$ (by some 14% over the past year)...
Household income from opium:
The average annual cash income of opium-producing households increased by almost 24% in the
Shan State, from US$ 830 in 2010 to US$ 1,030 in 2011. However, opium farmers in Myanmar
generally remain poorer than non-opium growing farmers. For non-opium cultivating households
(including those that never cultivated or have stopped opium poppy cultivation), the average
annual cash income was almost US$ 1,200. On average, income from opium accounts for 54% of
total cash income among poppy-growing farmers and in South Shan even more than 60%. For
Myanmar opium survey 2011
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these farmers, opium cultivation is the principal income to survive, which is illustrated by the
comments of farmers that had stopped cultivating opium and had to purchase food on credit or
borrow food and rely on relatives and friends...
Addiction:
Data on opium and other drug addiction was collected via interviews with village headmen.
Headmen were asked about the number of daily opium users and the number of ?regular? users of
other drugs (without specifying frequency of use). According to the headmen, daily opium use in
Shan State and in Kachin affects 0.8% of the population aged 15 years and above. As in previous
years, the prevalence rate was higher in opium-growing villages (1.3%) than in non-opiumgrowing
villages (0.4%). Although the number of amphetamine type stimulant (ATS) users is
increasing, the prevalence rate remained very low, at 0.2% of the population in opium-growing
areas which is almost the same ratio as last year. Heroin use is also reported to be very low,
affecting less than 0.1% of the population aged 15 and above. However, information on drug use
must be interpreted with caution, as respondents may have been reluctant to report opium, heroin
and ATS consumption in the context of the Government?s efforts to curb drug use and addiction...
Reported Eradication:
This survey did not monitor or validate the results of the eradication campaign carried out by the
Government of Myanmar (GOUM). According to the GOUM, a total of 7,058 ha were eradicated
in the 2010-2011 opium season, which is 15% less the area eradicated in 2009-2010. Most of the
eradication continued to take place in Shan State (85% of the total), notably in South Shan (51%).
44% of the eradication concentrated in three townships in the southern part of South Shan, namely
Pinlaung, Pekong and Sisaing townships...
Food security and coping strategies:
Food security remains a major problem in almost all regions where the survey took place for both
poppy-growing and non-poppy-growing villages. The erosion of food security is of particular
concern because it could trigger a further increase in opium cultivation. In order to meet their food
deficit, households across all regions most frequently sought assistance from friends and/or took
loans to buy food.
The high (and rising) price of opium in Myanmar is making opium production more attractive. In
fact, as a proportion of total income, opium income has increased among opium growing farmers.
Among opium growing farmers, the proportion of total household income derived from opium
production is also now increasing. Between 2003 and 2009, the income generated by opium was a
declining proportion of opium-growing farmers? total cash income falling (from 70% to about
20% during the period). However, in 2010, this trend reversed and the proportion of total cash
income coming from opium is now 54%. With the cultivation of one hectare of opium farmers
earned 9 times more than from rice cultivation in low lands, and 15 times more than rice cultivated
in uplands. This makes it more difficult to convince farmers to abandon opium and switch to other
crops. Nonetheless, this survey provides important information to help design and target
alternative livelihood-programmes..."
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-21
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Project Maje
Date of publication:
2011-12-20
Description:
"Project Maje?s previous report, ?The North War: A Kachin Conflict Compilation Report? (August 15, 2011) contained background information on the Kachin conflict and a compilation of articles about it from June-July 2011. This new report includes first hand observations from a November 2011 visit to the conflict area, two interviews and a compilation of news articles from August through early December 2011. Both reports are intended for journalists, aid workers and other researchers who may be interested in the in the conflict situation in northern Burma.
"Project Maje hopes that the ongoing situation in northern Burma, including resource extraction and human rights issues in addition to the KIO conflict, will be covered in increasing depth and scope by journalists and other investigators in the future. For a detailed view of the human rights and IDP situations in the conflict area, Project Maje particularly recommends two recent NGO reports:..."
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-19
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of publication:
2011-12-15
Description:
"...Human rights abuses faced by ethnic communities across rural eastern Burma have continued since November 2010, and are consistent with patterns KHRG has documented since 1992. Drawing from a dataset of 1,270 oral testimonies, sets of images and documentation written and collected over the last year by villagers trained to monitor human rights conditions in their own communities, this report presents information on 17 categories of abuse and quantifies their occurrence across KHRG research areas. By placing recent testimony from villagers in the context of twenty years of abusive practices, this report should make clear that developments since the 2010 elections have neither expanded villagers? options for claiming their human rights, nor addressed the root causes of abuse in rural eastern Burma. External assessments of developments in Burma that ignore local perspectives on continuing human rights abuse thus exclude the input of the most knowledgeable and engaged stakeholders ? who also stand to lose the most from inaccurate conclusions drawn without their participation. The testimony presented in the report should thus function as a critique of any attempt to assess changes in Burma that ignores local perspectives, and a call to heed the concerns of rural people who are gauging, on a day-to-day basis, the way past, present and continuing abuse impacts the future for communities in eastern Burma..."
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-15
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
Format :
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Size:
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Source/publisher:
Chatham House Videos via Youtube
Date of publication:
2011-12-01
Description:
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese democracy campaigner, has been voted the winner of the Chatham House Prize 2011. Madeleine Albright will receive the Prize on behalf of Aung San Suu Kyi at an award ceremony and dinner...
Aung San Suu Kyi recorded a video message for Chatham House, in which she accepts the award (received on her behalf by Madeleine Albright) and discusses reform in Burma....
The alternate link leads to a video and transcripts:
Opening Remarks, Dr Robin Niblett (video)...
Award Presentation, Aung San Suu Kyi (video message)
Award Presentation, Madeleine Albright (video)...
Keynote Address, Malcolm Brinded (transcript)...
Keynote Address, Lord Howell (transcript)...
Keynote Address, Lord Ashdown (transcript)...
Closing Remarks, DeAnne Julius (transcript.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-10
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Individual videos and films on Burma in English and other non-Asian languages, By Aung San Suu Kyi (Statements, Speeches, Writings, Interviews), Videos featuring Aung San Suu Kyi
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Naciones Unidas - Asamblea General (A/C.3/66/L.55/Rev.1)
Date of publication:
2011-11-21
Description:
Votes: Yes-98; No-25; Abstention-63
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-10
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Resoluciones aprobada por la AG sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en Myanmar (Español)
Language:
Espa?ol, Spanish
Format :
pdf
Size:
143.44 KB
Local URL:
GAres-2011-L55-rev.1(sp).pdf
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Source/publisher:
Nations Unies (A/C.3/66/L.55/Rev.1)
Date of publication:
2011-11-21
Description:
Les voix: Oui-98; Non-25; Abstention-63
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-10
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Fran?ais, French
Format :
pdf
Size:
58.09 KB
Local URL:
GAres-2011-L55-rev.1(fr).pdf
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Source/publisher:
United Nations (A/C.3/66/L.55/Rev.1)
Date of publication:
2011-11-21
Description:
Adopted by vote: Yes-98; No-25; Abstained-63.....Russia voted No.
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-10
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Russian
Format :
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