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Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group, Karen Rivers Watch
Date of publication:
2018-06-00
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အဓိကကျသော အချက်အလက်များ အကျဉ်းချုပ် 4
အစီရင်ခံစာပြုစုပုံ နည်းလမ်းများ 5
အသုံးပြုထားသော ဝေါဟာရနှင့် အတိုကောက် အသုံးအနှုန်းများ 6
မြေပုံနှင့် အချက်အလက်ပြ ဇယားကွက်များ 7
မြေပုံ (၁) KHRG သုတေသနပြုသည့် နယ်မြေဧရိယာ 7
မြေပုံ(၂) မြန်မာပြည်အရှေ့တောင်ပိုင်းရှိ အဆိုပြုထားသည့်ရေကာတာနှင့်
ဆောက်လုပ်ပြီးစီးခဲ့သော ရေကာတာများ 8
ဇယားကွက်(၁)သုတေသနဧရိယာအတွင်းရှိဆောက်လုပ်ရန်စီစဉ်ထားသည့်ရေကာတာနှင့်
ဆောက်လုပ်ပြီးစီးခဲ့ သောရေကာတာများ 9
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ရေအားလျှပ်စစ်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး မဟာစီမံကိန်းများ 9
ရေကာတာစီမံကိန်းများနှင့် လူမှုဘဝ ထိခိုက်နိုင်ခြင်းများ 11
မြေယာများ ဆုံးရှုံးခံရနိုင်ခြင်း 11
ရေလွမ်းနိုင်ခြင်း၊အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကြောင်းထိခိုက်နိုင်ခြင်းနှင့် လျော်ကြေးငွေမရရှိခြင်း 12
ဇယား(၂)ရေကာတာတည်ဆောက်ခဲ့ခြင်းကြောင့်မြေယာသိမ်းဆည်းခြင်းနှင့်ရေလွမ်းမိုးခြင်း 12
နေရပ်ရွှေ့ပြောင်းခံရနိုင်ခြင်း 13
ညှိနှိုင်းဆွေးနွေးမှုများတွင် ပါဝင်ခွင့်အားနည်းခြင်း 13
ပြန်လည်အစားထိုးမရနိုင်သော ဆုံးရှုံးနစ်နာမှုများ 14
တရားမျှတမှုမရှိသော လျော်ကြေး 14
ဇယား(၃)ရေကာတာစီမံကိန်းကြောင့် အဓမ္မ နေရပ်ရွှေ့ပြောင်း နေထိုင်ရခြင်း 15
လက်နက်ကိုင်တိုက်ပွဲနှင့် မိုင်းအန္တရာယ်များ 16
အကျိုးအမြတ်ခွဲဝေပေးခြင်း ယန္တရားများထားရှိရန် ပျက်ကွက်ခြင်း 17
မြန်မာပြည်တွင်း သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်နှင့် လူမှုဘဝ ကာကွယ်မှုအခြေအနေ - ခြုံငုံသုံးသပ်ချက် 18
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိခိုက်မှု ဆန်းစစ်ခြင်း ဥပဒေလုပ်ထုံးလုပ်နည်းဆိုင်ရာ လုပ်ငန်းစဉ် 18
ဇယား(၄) ရေအားလျှပ်စစ် စီမံကိန်းများအတွက် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိခိုက်မှုဆိုင်ရာ ဆန်းစစ်လေ့လာချက်
(EIA) နှင့် ကနဦး ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ဆန်းစစ်ချက် (IEE) တို့၏ ဆန်းစစ်ချက် အဆင့်များ 19
မြန်မာ့ ရေအားလျှပ်စစ် စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်မှုအောက်ရှိ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိခိုက်မှု ဆန်းစစ်လေ့လာချက် 20
အကြံပြုချက်များ 23
မြန်မာအစိုးရအတွက် အကြံပြုချက်များ 23
ရေအားလျှပ်စစ်စီမံကိန်းများတွင် ပါဝင်သော ကုမ္ပဏီများအတွက် အကြံပြုချက်များ 25
ပါဝင်လုပ်ဆောင် သူများအားလုံးအတွက် အကြံပြုချက်များ 27
ဓာတ်ပုံမှတ်တမ်းများ 28
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နိဒါန်း
အဓိကကျသော အချက်အလက်များ အကျဉ်းချုပ်
မြန်မာပြည် အရှေ့တောင်ပိုင်း အထူးသဖြင့် ဝေးလံခေါင်ဖျားသော ကျေးလက်ဒေသ၊ ပဋိပက္ခ ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သော ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ1 နယ်စပ်နှင့် နီးသောဒေသများတွင် လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အား ရရှိမှုနှုန်းသည် အနိမ့်ဆုံး ဒေသများထဲမှ တစ်ခု အပါအဝင်ဖြစ်သည်။ မြန်မာ့အမျိုးသား လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အား ရရှိရေး စီမံကိန်း (NEP) သည် ၂၀၃၀2ခုနှစ်တွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ အိမ်ထောင်စုအားလုံး လျှပ်စစ်ဓါတ်အား ရရှိရန် စီမံချက်ထားရှိပါသည်။ အမျိုးသား လျှပ်စစ်ဓါတ်အား ရရှိရေးစီမံကိန်းနှင့် အခြားအမျိုးသားဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး၏ ရည်မှန်းချက်အား အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက် နိုင်ရန် မြန်မာ့စွမ်းအင်မဟာစီမံကိန်း (Myamar Energy Master Plan) မှ လျှပ်စစ်ဓါတ်အားလိုအပ်မှုအတွက် ၂၀၃၀3 ခုနှစ်အထိ နှစ်စဉ်နှစ်တိုင်း လျှပ်စစ်ရရှိမှု ၁၀ ရာခိုင်နှုန်း တိုးမြှင့်သွားမည် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ဤအနာဂတ်လိုအပ် ချက်ကို ဖြည့်ဆည်းနိုင်ရန် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် စွမ်းအင်ထုတ်လုပ်မှုကို တိုးချဲ့ရပါမည်။ လက်ရှိတွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအင်သုံးစွဲလည်ပတ်မှုနှုန်း၏ သုံးပုံ နှစ်ပုံသည် ရေအားလျှပ်စစ်အားဖြင့် လည်ပတ်နေပါသည်4။မြန်မာ့ စွမ်းအင်ပင်မစီမံကိန်း (အမျိုးသားစွမ်းအင်စီမံခန့်ခွဲရေးကော်မတီ)နှင့် မြန်မာပြည်တွင်းရှိ အခြားရွေးချယ်စရာလျှပ် စစ်ကဏ္ဍဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု လျာထားသည့်နည်းလမ်းများသည် ၂၀၅၀ ခုနှစ်အထိ ရေ
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-25
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese (ွမနျမာဘာသာ)
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Source/publisher:
Delta Alliance
Date of publication:
2015-02-00
Description:
Contents:
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Context 1
1.2 Results Phase 1 3
1.3 Proposal for phase 2 4
1.4 Undertaken activities 5
1.5 Guide to this report 6
2 Methodology 7
2.1 Vulnerability and Resilience Assessment 7
2.2 Stakeholder participation and multi-criteria analyses 10
2.2.1 Introduction to the stakeholders participation and multi-criteria analyses 10
2.2.2 Methodology 11
3 Base Layer 14
3.1 Description current situation 14
3.1.1 Geographical Situation 14
3.1.2 Climatic Conditions 15
3.1.3 Soils and Sediment 15
3.1.4 Subsidence (natural or human-induced) 15
3.1.5 Water resources 16
3.1.5.1 River system 16
3.1.5.2 Drinking water resources 17
3.1.5.3 Water resources for agriculture 18
3.1.5.4 Water resources for fisheries and aquaculture 19
3.1.5.5 Surface water quality and pollution 20
3.1.5.6 Groundwater 22
3.1.6 Flood hazard in the Ayeyarwady Delta 22
3.1.6.1 Types of floods 23
3.1.6.2 Historical riverine floods 24
3.1.6.3 Coastal floods by cyclones and storm surges / Cyclone Nargis 26
3.1.7 Tsunami?s 26
3.1.8 Salinity intrusion 27
3.1.9 Coastal and river bank erosion 28
3.1.10 Nature and Wetlands 28
3.1.10.1 Mangrove forests 28
3.1.10.2 Functions of mangroves 29
3.1.10.3 Degradation of the mangroves in the Ayeyarwady Delta 30
3.2 Drivers of change 32
3.2.1 Climate change (temperature, precipitation, sea level rise) 34
3.2.2 Subsidence (natural or human-induced) 36
3.2.3 Research gaps 36
3.3 Pressures 37
4 Network Layer 42
4.1 Description current situation 42
4.1.1 Importance of the network layer 42
4.1.2 Roads, ports and waterways in Myanmar 42
4.1.3 Polders: Embankments, Sluices and Drainage System 43
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4.1.4 Irrigation infrastructure 44
4.1.5 Energy 45
4.1.6 Drinking water supply systems 45
4.2 Drivers of change 46
4.3 Pressures 48
5 Occupation layer 51
5.1 Description current situation 51
5.1.1 Population 51
5.1.2 Political Changes/History in Delta Management 51
5.1.3 Economic Development 52
5.1.4 Agriculture 52
5.1.4.1 Importance of the Agricultural Sector 52
5.1.4.2 Farm size and high percentage of landless people in the Delta 53
5.1.4.3 Problems on Livelihood and Income Sources 54
5.1.4.4 Land acquisition 54
5.1.4.5 Cropping patterns 56
5.1.4.6 Crop Yields and Prices 57
5.1.4.7 Irrigation development 58
5.1.4.8 Agricultural Practices 62
5.1.4.9 Agricultural credit 63
5.1.4.10 Agricultural Damage by Cyclone Nargis 64
5.1.4.11 Constraints for Farming 64
5.1.5 Fisheries and aquaculture 65
5.1.5.1 Fisheries important for livelihood 65
5.1.5.2 Fish consumption in Myanmar 67
5.1.5.3 Zoning of fishery and aquacultural activities 67
5.1.5.4 Impact of cyclone Nargis 69
5.1.5.5 Fishing practices and developments 69
5.1.5.6 Capture Fisheries 70
5.1.5.7 Fishing Gears in the Delta. 72
5.1.5.8 Aquaculture 74
5.1.5.9 Production and fisheries values chains 76
5.1.5.10 Constraints for the fishery and aquaculture sector 79
5.1.5.11 Research on fisheries and aquaculture: MYFish project 81
5.1.6 Industry 82
5.2 Drivers of change 83
5.3 Pressures 84
6 Governance 90
6.1 Administrative system 91
6.1.1 Land and water management 91
6.2 Governance 93
6.2.1 Key trends in governance. 93
6.2.2 Implications of the trends for policy and for developments cooperation 94
7 Results from the stakeholders participation and multi-criteria analyses 96
8 Vulnerability assessment and score card assessment 105
9 Overview of adaptive measures in the Ayeyarwady Delta 112
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9.1 Flood management at national level 112
9.2 Disaster Risk Reduction and flood mitigation in Myanmar 112
9.3 Disaster Risk Reduction in the ASEAN region 114
9.4 Forest conservation and restoration 115
9.5 Early Forecasting, Warning Systems and Mitigation Measures 115
9.6 Adaptive measures mentioned in the NAPA 117
10Overview of technical methods and tools to support delta management and
development in the Ayeyarwady Delta 124
11Knowledge gaps 125
12Comparative assessment of 14 deltas including Ayeyarwady 127
12.1 The 14 deltas assessed 127
12.2 Drivers of change 127
12.3 Pressures 128
12.3.1 Base layer (Natural resources) 128
12.3.2 Network layer (Infrastructure) 129
12.3.3 Occupation layer (land and water use) 130
12.4 Governance 131
12.5 Adaptive measures 131
12.6 Comparison of delta score cards 132
12.7 Research gaps and opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaboration 134
13Summary of Findings 137
14References 138
Annex A: Comparative assessment of 14 deltas 147
Annex B: Main indicators for drivers, pressures and governance 148
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-24
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
UPENN via Google
Description:
7,780 results for Burma OR Myanmar (July 2018)
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-20
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Online Books - general lists
Language:
English +
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Source/publisher:
Fortify Rights
Date of publication:
2018-07-19
Description:
"Preparations for Genocide
and Crimes Against Humanity
Against Rohingya Muslims in
Rakhine State, Myanmar...This report documents and reveals a sinister subplot: Myanmar authorities
made extensive and systematic preparations for the commission of mass
atrocity crimes against indigenous Rohingya civilians during the weeks and
months before Rohingya-militant attacks on August 25, 2017. While the Myanmar authorities have subjected Rohingya to widespread
and systematic human rights violations for decades, the Myanmar Army?s
preparations for the most recent attacks on civilians in northern Rakhine
State occurred between October 2016 and August 2017. On October 9, 2016,
Rohingya men and boys armed mostly with sticks and knives attacked three
police outposts, reportedly killing nine police and sparking a Myanmar Armyled
attack on Rohingya civilians in approximately 40 villages in Maungdaw
Township, displacing more than 94,000 civilians.
Following that wave of brutal violence, the international community
failed to act, and Myanmar officialdom evidently took note: The military,
administrative, and civilian authorities subsequently made a series of
decisions and enacted several measures that contributed to the commission of
the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity beginning August 25, 2017..."
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-19
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Rohingya, Atrocities against Groups - documents, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
13.42 MB
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Fortify_Rights-2018-07-Long_Swords.pdf
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Source/publisher:
Fortify Rights (Press Reslease for "TheGave them ong Swords")
Date of publication:
2018-07-19
Description:
Report finds ?reasonable grounds” for ICC arrest warrants, identifies 22 military and police officials...The Myanmar authorities made ?extensive and systematic preparations” for attacks against Rohingya civilians during the weeks and months before militants attacked police on August 25, 2017, Fortify Rights said in a new report released today. The report finds ?reasonable grounds” that crimes against Rohingya constitute genocide and crimes against humanity, and it identifies 22 Myanmar Army and Police officials who should be criminally investigated for their roles in atrocities.
In order for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant, the prosecutor must find ?reasonable grounds” that perpetrators committed genocide and/or crimes against humanity. The report calls on the United Nations Security Council to urgently refer the situation in Myanmar to the ICC.
?Genocide doesn?t happen spontaneously,” said Matthew Smith, Chief Executive Officer at Fortify Rights. ?Impunity for these crimes will pave the path for more violations and attacks in the future. The world can?t sit idly by and watch another genocide unfold, but right now, that?s exactly what?s happening.”
The dominant narrative about what occurred in Myanmar?s northern Rakhine State in 2017 suggests that Rohingya militants attacked dozens of police outposts, instigating a spontaneous Myanmar Army-led crackdown against Rohingya civilians, forcing the displacement of hundreds of thousands to Bangladesh.
The 160-page report, ?They Gave Them Long Swords”: Preparations for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, Myanmar, documents how the Myanmar authorities committed mass killings, rape, and arson attacks against Rohingya in Maungdaw Township in October and November 2016. When the international community failed to effectively respond to these attacks, Myanmar authorities made preparations to commit another attack that extended throughout all three townships of northern Rakhine State—Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathedaung.
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-19
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Rohingya
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Patrick T. Brown? blog
Date of publication:
2017-11-29
Description:
"We have a paper out in Nature titled ?Greater future global warming inferred from Earth?s recent energy budget”.
The Carnegie press release can be found here and Coverage from the Washington Post can be found here.
A video abstract summarizing the study is below...The study addresses one of the key questions in climate science: How much global warming should we expect for a given increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases?...[I] we were to assume that humans will continue to increases greenhouse gas emissions substantially throughout the 21st century (the RCP8.5 future emissions scenario), climate models tell us that we can expect anywhere from about 3.2°C to 5.9°C (5.8°F to 10.6°F) of global warming above pre-industrial levels by 2100. This means that for identical changes in greenhouse gas concentrations (more technically, identical changes in radiative forcing), climate models simulate a range of global warming that differs by almost a factor of 2...Using the steepest future emissions scenario as an example (the RCP8.5 emissions scenario), the figure below shows the comparison of the raw-model projections used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to our projections that incorporate information from observations..."
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-18
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change science - multiple issues
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
International Crisis Group (Asia Report N°296)
Date of publication:
2018-05-16
Description:
Executive Summary:
"In the last eight months, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled indiscriminate and brutal
operations by Myanmar?s military in northern Rakhine State to Bangladesh, joining
tens of thousands who left earlier in 2017, and many more from previous years.
The two countries have agreed upon a procedural framework for voluntary repatriation,
but no Rohingya have returned and small numbers continue to flee. The burden
of the crisis may have shifted to Bangladesh, but the onus of responsibility remains
squarely on Myanmar. The world must pursue accountability for crimes committed
and press the government to create the conditions for voluntary repatriation. The
tragic reality, however, is that the vast majority of refugees are unlikely to return in
the foreseeable future, however much international opprobrium Myanmar faces.
Planning for the refugees should proceed on that assumption, while efforts continue
to protect those Rohingya who remain in Myanmar.
Failing to develop long-term plans for the refugees would not only risk that hundreds
of thousands of people remain in limbo. It could also lead the status quo to
morph in dangerous ways. For now, host communities and political elites in Bangladesh
largely sympathise with the refugees, but if the sentiments of either were to
shift ? after the December elections, for example, or due to prolonged negative impacts
on host communities ? the Rohingya might face pressure to return against
their will or move into more isolated camps in Bangladesh, such as those the Bangladeshi
government is building on remote Bhasan island. Such developments could
prompt instability or violence on either side of the border ? due to organised resistance
by refugees to relocation or premature repatriation, communal violence against
returning refugees, or renewed ARSA mobilisation in Rakhine State.
The social, political and strategic implications of this crisis for Bangladesh are
complex at all levels. The host communities ? neglected by Dhaka at the best of times
? are already feeling the strain. While there is no disagreement in political and policy
circles about the intractability of the crisis, there is widespread reluctance to acknowledge
it, as it would reflect badly on the Bangladeshi government?s ability to protect its
sovereignty and could be interpreted as tacit acceptance of ethnic cleansing. Public
sympathy for the Rohingya will not last forever, and the current situation is likely to
evolve in unpredictable ways. After the December elections, the next government
(likely to be the same as the present one) will have to make some difficult longer-term
decisions. This subject will be covered in detail in a forthcoming report.
Myanmar has constructed some of the infrastructure that could support a limited
return, in the form of heavily guarded processing and holding camps. But it has done
little if anything to create conditions on the ground that would give refugees, who
fled abuses that likely constitute crimes against humanity, and who continue to be
fearful and traumatised, the confidence to go back. It has bulldozed many burned
Rohingya villages, is building new roads, power lines and security infrastructure
across northern Rakhine State, and has promoted or allowed the expansion of existing
villages and construction of new settlements inhabited by other ethnicities. The
refugees? return to their homes and lands thus is not only increasingly unlikely, but
also becoming impossible in practice. Ethnic Rakhine political leaders and local
The Long Haul Ahead for Myanmar?s Rohingya Refugee Crisis
Crisis Group Asia Report N°296, 16 May 2018 Page ii
communities are staunchly opposed to repatriation, and the government has done
little to mitigate their resistance (indeed, its own relations with ethnic Rakhine have
soured). Moreover, hostility toward the Rohingya across Myanmar political elites and
in society more broadly remains firmly entrenched.
Most refugees express no intention to go to third countries, and in any case their
opportunities to do so are likely to remain scarce. They want to return home. Many
refugees hope that the unprecedented international attention their plight has received
over the past months could help them achieve that, but they are resigned to
staying for an extended period in Bangladesh.
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army militant group has significant networks
of members and supporters in the Bangladesh camps, and appears determined to
remain relevant as an insurgent and political force. The extent to which it can do so
is uncertain. It launched a small cross-border attack on a Myanmar army convoy on
5 January, but it has conducted no actions since then. Whether it can leverage widespread
disaffection and the significant sympathy it still enjoys in the camps into
political authority and sustain cross-border attacks remains to be seen. There is no
evidence it has established links to transnational groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda. Indeed,
viewing the situation in the camps through a counter-terrorism lens would be
unhelpful, as the Bangladeshi authorities appear to recognise.
Improving the situation in northern Rakhine State, where 100,000-150,000 Rohingya
still live (and on some estimates as many as 250,000), is not primarily a development
challenge. It depends on the Myanmar government and security forces changing
course. For the Rohingya in northern Rakhine, particularly those in rural areas,
life is becoming increasingly untenable. Curfews, checkpoints and movement restrictions
mean that they cannot gain access to farms, fishing grounds, markets, day labour
opportunities or social services. These people say they do not want to leave, but if the
restrictions are not urgently eased, many may decide they have no other choice.
To prevent further deterioration, the international community should continue
pushing the government to allow unfettered United Nations and aid agency access to
northern Rakhine. They should press for accountability for crimes committed by the
security forces and others. It is also vital to ensure that the government changes
conditions in northern Rakhine, to improve the prospects of an eventual refugee
return, and more urgently to stabilise the situation of the Rohingya who remain, so
as to prevent a further exodus. The recent appointment of a UN special envoy for
Myanmar, combined with continued scrutiny and engagement from the Security
Council ? which just completed a visit to Bangladesh and Myanmar ? can hopefully
result in some progress on these issues. The recent statement from State Counsellor
Aung San Suu Kyi?s office promising improved relations with the UN, together with
the appointment of a new president, may open space for changes in the government?s
approach.
Realistically, however, the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled to
Bangladesh appear unlikely to return any time soon. Donors should prepare for the
long haul. They should not only fund the humanitarian operation but also invest in
the development of Cox?s Bazar district, where the refugees currently reside, to reduce
the burden on host communities, minimise risks that local sentiment turns
against refugees and create an environment more amenable to their integration. The
The Long Haul Ahead for Myanmar?s Rohingya Refugee Crisis
Crisis Group Asia Report N°296, 16 May 2018 Page iii
Bangladeshi government currently resists such an approach, given the domestic political
costs of acknowledging that the Rohingya will remain indefinitely. Similarly,
many Western governments are understandably loath to acknowledge explicitly that
prospects of the refugees? return are slim. But sustained political discussions on longterm
solutions between the government, donors and multilateral institutions are
vital. Failing to develop plans for the Rohingya?s prolonged stay i
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2018-07-15
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VICE News
Date of publication:
2016-05-12
Description:
"In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by a military junta. As the reforms took hold, however, things were growing progressively worse for the Rohingya, a heavily persecuted ethnic Muslim minority concentrated in the country?s western state of Rakhine.
The 2012 gang rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by three Muslim men ignited violent riots in which hundreds were killed as Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya attacked each other. In the following months, tens of thousands of Rohingya were rounded up and forced to live in squalid camps; Human Rights Watch deemed the attacks crimes against humanity that amounted to ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya. Thousands of Rohingya have since attempted to leave the country, fueling the region?s intricate and brutal human trafficking network."
VICE News traveled to Myanmar to investigate the violence and discrimination faced by the country?s Muslim minority.
Watch "The Struggle of the Rohingya: Escape From Myanmar” - http://bit.ly/1O1SQk2
Read "Dozens of Countries Committed War Crimes or Illegally Deported Refugees in 2015” - http://bit.ly/1rCGb48
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-06
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Vice News" via Youtube
Description:
About 7,960 results (July 2018)
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-05
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
www via google
Description:
About 45,800,000 results (July 2018)
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-05
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Climate literacy via Youtube
Description:
"These are the lecture videos from the free UBC [University of British Colombia,I think] course Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations, which tackles the scientific and socio-political dimensions of climate change. This course introduces the basics of the climate system, models and predictions, human and natural impacts, mitigative and adaptive responses, and the evolution of climate policy. This course formed the basis of the book Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Practice..."
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-03
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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United Nations (UNFCCC Adaptation Committee)
Date of publication:
2014-12-12
Description:
"A new video documentary by the UNFCCC Adaptation Committee aims at raising awareness on climate change adaptation. The 20 minute documentary ?Adapting to a changing climate” introduces viewers to the topic of climate change adaptation, weaving in inspiring stories of adaptation action and interviews with experts. Experts: Christina Chan, Co-Chair, Adaptation Committee Juan Hoffmaister, Co-Chair, Adaptation Committee Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC HE Lucille Sering, Secretary of the Climate Change Commission of the Philippines Ms Mary Robinson, UN Special Envoy for Climate Change Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, academic and author of the ?Stern Review” Ms Bianca Jagger, Chair of the Human Rights Foundation."
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-01
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Adaptation
Language:
English (Other languages available?)
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Source/publisher:
Climate literacy
Description:
33 modules on different aspects of Earth?s climate system, climate change, adaptation, mitigation etc.
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-01
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Aljazeera (Inside Story)
Date of publication:
2018-06-29
Description:
"New questions are being raised about whether Rohingya refugees, living in Bangladesh, will be able to return to Myanmar.
More than 700,000 were forced to flee their homes last year during a military crackdown that the UN says amounted to "ethnic cleansing".
Myanmar has agreed to start letting them back into the country.
But Peter Maurer, who?s head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has cast doubt on that commitment after a visit to Myanmar?s Rakhine State.
So, will the Rohingya ever return - and how long can Bangladesh afford to house them?"....
Presenter: Elizabeth Puranam...
Guests:
Tuhn Khin - President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation, UK;
Matthew Smith - Co-founder & CEO of Fortify Rights;
Robert Templer - director of the Higher Education Alliance for Refugees.
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-30
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Advisory Commission on Rakhine State
Date of publication:
2018-06-00
Description:
Table of Contents:
Executive Summary . . .
Part I: The Political Context . . .
Part II: The Commission?s Mandate and Structure . . .
Part III: The Work of the Commission . . .
Part IV: Lessons Learned: Technical Considerations . . .
Part V: Lessons Learned: Political Considerations . . .
Indication of Sources for this Brief . . .
...Executive Summary:
"...Despite its efforts, the Commission was unable to secure the buy-in
from some key domestic constituencies, including parts of the Rakhine
community and the Myanmar Army. Moreover, as the Commission?s work
progressed, the situation on the ground deteriorated. In the immediate
aftermath of the release of the Commission?s final report, attacks by
the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on government positions
were followed by a comprehensive ?clearance operation” by Myanmar
authorities. Violence and destruction of private property forced more
than 600,000 Muslims to flee across the border to Bangladesh. Reports of
serious human rights violations carried out by security forces and Rakhine
vigilante groups abounded...In December 2017, the Kofi Annan Foundation initiated an internal
?lessons learned” process in order to assess the strengths and weaknesses
of the Commission?s work. This report sums up the main findings of the
evaluation process, which was primarily based on some 50 interviews
with key stakeholders with intimate knowledge of the Commission,
including Government representatives, analysts, diplomats, UN
officials, representatives of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as the
commissioners themselves. The interviews were carried out in Yangon,
Naypyidaw, Bangkok and Geneva...The report presents an outline of the Commission?s work, and examines
its mandate, structure and modus operandi. It also assesses the political
opportunities and constraints provided by the political context in which
the Commission operated, and ? most fundamentally ? looks at the
outcome and legacy of the Commission?s work. The scope of the report
is limited to activities of the Commission and developments over the course of its mandate, and thus it does not seek to track or assess
the implementation of the Commission?s recommendations by the
government of Myanmar...The ?lessons learned” from the Commission?s work may potentially be of
use and interest beyond Myanmar. Through this report, the Kofi Annan
Foundation seeks to share these lessons in a way that is accessible and
instructive for policy makers, academics, and practitioners alike..."
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-30
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
UN Human Rights Council
Date of publication:
2018-06-27
Description:
SPEAKERS:
Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of HR in Myanmar (Introduction)...
Myanmar (Concerned Country), Mr. Htin Lynn...
European Union, Mr. Peter Sorensen...
Canada, Ms. Rosemary Mccarney...
Poland, Mr. Zbigniew Czech...
Thailand, Mr. Sek Wannamethee...
Czech Republic, Mr. Michal Kaplan...
Japan, Ms. Mitsuko Shino...
Sweden, Ms. Veronika Bard...
Belgium, Mr. Karl Dhaene...
Iraq, Mr. Yahya Ibraheem Fadhil Al-Obaidi...
Germany, Mr. Gunnar Schneider...
France, Mr. Francois Gave...
Australia, Ms. Sally Mansfield...
Denmark, Mr. Carsten Staur...
Norway, Mr. Kjetil Elsebutangen...
Netherlands, Ms. Marianne de Jong...
OIC, Mr. Rashid Al Balushi...
Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ms. Alyaa Ihsan Abbood Alsayegh...
Liechtenstein, Mr. Claudio Silvio Nardi...
Republic of Korea, Mr. Jang-Keun Lee...
Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of HR in Myanmar (Comments and Answers)
Saudi Arabia, Mr. Fahad Obaydullah Almutairi
Indonesia, Mr. Irwansyah Mukhlis
New Zealand, Ms. Katy Diane Donnelly...
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Mr. Edgardo Toro Carreño...
Mexico, Ms. Emilia Hernández Martínez...
China, Mr. Zhang Sisi.
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-28
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar at the 38th Session of the Human Rights Council (video), International Criminal Court (Myanmar), Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
UN Human Rights Council
Date of publication:
2018-06-27
Description:
SPEAKERS:
Afghanistan, Ms Suraya Dalil...
Bangladesh, Mr. Md. Emdadul Islam Chowdhury...
Luxembourg, Ms. Anne Goedert...
Estonia, Ms. Triinu Kallas...
Russian Federation, Mr. Evgeny Ustinov...
Turkey, Mr. Ali Naci Koru...
Lao People?s Democratic Republic, Mr. Kittiphone Sayaphet...
Ireland, Ms. Amy Sheils...
Belarus, Mr. Andrei Taranda...
Maldives, Ms. Hala Hameed...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ms. Miriam Shearman...
Viet Nam, Ms. Le Duc Hanh...
Human Rights Now, Mr. Nicolas Torres Vieira...
Amnesty International, Ms. Laura Haigh...
International Federation for Human Rights Leagues, Ms. Manon Karatas...
Lawyers? Rights Watch Canada, Ms. Helene Ramos Dos Santos...
Alliance Defending Freedom, Ms. Mariam Gomez de Aguero...
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Ms. Khin Ohmar...
International-Lawyers.Org, Ms. Jennifer D. Tapia...
Human Rights Watch, Mr. John Fischer...
Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Ms. Claire Denman...
Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of HR in Myanmar (Final Remarks).
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-28
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar at the 38th Session of the Human Rights Council (video), International Criminal Court (Myanmar), Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Amnesty International (ASA 16/8630/2018)
Date of publication:
2018-06-27
Description:
Executive Summary: "Early in the morning of 25 August 2017, a Rohingya armed group known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation
Army (ARSA) launched coordinated attacks on security force posts in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. In
the days, weeks, and months that followed, the Myanmar security forces, led by the Myanmar Army,
attacked the entire Rohingya population in villages across northern Rakhine State.
In the 10 months after 25 August, the Myanmar security forces drove more than 702,000 women, men, and
children—more than 80 per cent of the Rohingya who lived in northern Rakhine State at the crisis?s outset—
into neighbouring Bangladesh. The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya population was achieved by a relentless
and systematic campaign in which the Myanmar security forces unlawfully killed thousands of Rohingya,
including young children; raped and committed other sexual violence against hundreds of Rohingya women
and girls; tortured Rohingya men and boys in detention sites; pushed Rohingya communities toward
starvation by burning markets and blocking access to farmland; and burned hundreds of Rohingya villages
in a targeted and deliberate manner.
These crimes amount to crimes against humanity under international law, as they were perpetrated as part
of a widespread and systematic attack against the Rohingya population. Amnesty International has evidence
of nine of the 11 crimes against humanity listed in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court being
committed since 25 August 2017, including murder, torture, deportation or forcible transfer, rape and other
sexual violence, persecution, enforced disappearance, and other inhumane acts, such as forced starvation.
Amnesty International also has evidence that responsibility for these crimes extends to the highest levels of
the military, including Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services.
This report is based on more than 400 interviews carried out between September 2017 and June 2018,
including during four research missions to the refugee camps in Bangladesh and three missions to
Myanmar, one of which was to Rakhine State. The interviews were overwhelmingly with survivors and direct
witnesses to crimes. Amnesty International sought out people from different ethnic and religious
communities from northern Rakhine State, including Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim group; ethnic
Rakhine, Mro, Khami, and Thet, all predominantly Buddhist groups; and Hindu.
In addition to survivors and witnesses, Amnesty International interviewed humanitarian aid workers in
Bangladesh and Myanmar; medical professionals in Bangladesh who had treated violence-related injuries
among Rohingya refugees; analysts of the Myanmar military; diplomats; journalists; and local administrative
officials in Myanmar, known as Village Administrators. The report also draws on an extensive analysis of
satellite imagery and data; forensic medical examination of injury photographs; authenticated photographic
and video material taken by Rohingya in northern Rakhine State; confidential documents, particularly on the
Myanmar military?s command structure; and open source investigations and analysis, including of Facebook
posts related to the Myanmar military..."
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-27
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Criminal Court (Myanmar), Amnesty International reports on Burma/Myanmar, Discrimination against the Rohingya, Atrocities against Groups - documents, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
Language:
English
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"The Irrawaddy"
Date of publication:
2018-06-25
Description:
"NAYPYITAW — The government will not respond to a request that the International Criminal Court (ICC) consider opening a case over the alleged deportation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh, government spokesman U Zaw Htay said.
?The ICC has nothing to do with Myanmar. Whatever [steps toward] prosecution the ICC has made, Myanmar has no reason to respond,” U Zaw Htay told The Irrawaddy on Friday.
The President?s Office called the ICC?s demand a deliberate attempt to increase international attention and pressure on the Myanmar government. It said the ICC?s demand is not in line with international law, rules, regulations or procedures.
In a decision published on Thursday, the ICC asked Myanmar to respond by July 27 to a request made in April that the ICC exercise jurisdiction over the alleged crimes. The ICC asked Myanmar to submit its views on the court?s jurisdiction and the circumstances surrounding the movement of Rohingya across the border into Bangladesh..."
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-26
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Criminal Court (Myanmar)
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
International Criminal Court (ICC) - icc-cpi.int
Description:
About 139 results (June 2018)
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-24
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
International Criminal Court (Myanmar), Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. - inter-governmental and other international sources
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Date of publication:
2018-06-21
Description:
Related documents:
07 May 2018, Decision Inviting the Competent Authorities of the People?s Republic of Bangladesh to Submit Observations pursuant to Rule 103(1) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence on the ?Prosecution?s Request for a Ruling on Jurisdiction under Article 19(3) of the (0.36 MB | 5 Pages)
ICC-RoC46(3)-01/18-3 | Pre-Trial Chamber I
11 April 2018, Decision assigning the ?Prosecution?s Request for a Ruling on Jurisdiction under Article 19(3) of the Statute” to Pre-Trial Chamber I (0.39 MB | 4 Pages)
ICC-RoC46(3)-01/18-2 | President of the Pre-Trial Division
09 April 2018, Prosecution?s Request for a Ruling on Jurisdiction under Article 19(3) of the Statute (0.86 MB | 31 Pages)
ICC-RoC46(3)-01/18-1 | Office of the Prosecutor
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-24
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
International Criminal Court (Myanmar), Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. - inter-governmental and other international sources
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Date of publication:
2018-05-18
Description:
"Abstract. Dams as well as protective dikes and levees are critical infrastructures whose associated risk must be properly
managed in a continuous and updated process. Usually, dam safety management has been carried out assuming stationary
10 climatic and non-climatic conditions. However, the projected alterations due to climate change are likely to affect different
factors driving dam risk. Although some reference institutions develop guidance for including climate change in their
decision support strategies, related information is still vast and scattered and its application to specific analyses such as dam
safety assessments remains a challenge.
This article presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary review of the impacts of climate change susceptible to affect
15 dam safety. The global effect can be assessed through the integration of the various projected effects acting on each aspect of
the risk, from the input hydrology to the calculation of the consequences of the flood wave on population and assets at risk.
This will provide useful information for dam owners and dam safety practitioners in their decision-making process."
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-21
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
World Bank Group
Date of publication:
2018-05-00
Description:
"Myanmar?s economy performed better in 2017/18 with a modest growth acceleration that partially
reversed the deterioration experienced in 2016/17. While the outlook remains positive, risks have
intensified. The economy experienced a broad-based increase in real GDP growth to 6.4 percent in 2017/181
from 5.9 percent in 2016/17. Inflation moderated from 7 percent in 2016/17 to 5.5 percent in 2017/18. The
exchange rate was stable and appreciated slightly towards the end of the year, the current account deficit
narrowed slightly on strong export growth, and the fiscal deficit also narrowed in the first three quarters of the
fiscal year. While performance remains strong and the macroeconomic outlook is positive, there are concerns
that the slow pace of reforms, vulnerabilities in the financial sector, and limited progress in addressing the
humanitarian crisis in Rakhine are starting to affect business sentiment and could weaken performance. External
risks from uncertainty in global trade policy and in commodity prices intensify the downside risks to the growth
outlook..."
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-21
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
World Bank and its Watchers
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Karen Refugee Committee
Date of publication:
2018-04-00
Description:
"There are currently
89,982
refugees living in Karen Refugee Camp in Thailand. Initially, there have
been more than 200,000 refugees living in the camps. The camps have existed for 43 years now,
since the beginning of 1975. The estimated amount spent over refugee?s assistance
is around
many
millions
Bahts. The accountable blessings received by the refugees over these years from various
countries, organizations and individuals. The organizations providing services include NGOs, INGOs,
religious organization, UNHCR, Royal Thai Government, people of Thailand and Vocational Training
College. I hope that, every one of us currently living in refugee camps or those who already settled
should acknowledge this immeasurable gratitude contributed to us. There have been ups and
downs throughout those year in refugee camps; sometimes good and bad. However, we would like
to see that, every family living should consider themselves as family and that is always the attitude
of the Karen refugee committee. The Committee would like to see that,
every one living in the
camp are able to live peacefully without discrimination and support one another. If one is hurt, we
all suffer and if one is happy, we all rejoice together.
We have been living together in this community for years and each of us
knows who we are and
where we belong. We have to be grateful each day for the blessing that we receive from friends
near and far. As the time goes by, our hope and dream are shattered away by the uncertain future.
We need and
desire
have
changed. Our attitude towards one another has changed. And our
dreams are shattered. Some of us become more selfish than the others. The spirit of love,
gratitude and forgiveness have become far beyond. We need to restore our relationship and
continue to live as peaceful co
mmunity and contribute back, in whatever means we receive to
others. Once again, we thanks God for his unceasing blessings and continue to thanks our friends,
donors, NGOs, INGOs and UNHCR and Thai government for your continuous supports. We also
want to thank CBOs, religious organizations, and all the camp residents for your ceaseless
contribution throughout these years....
Map of Karen Refugee Camps...Newsletter and Activities report...Monthly Activities Report ...NGO Supporters...Camp Population Report: Registered people in the 7 camps (Mae La; Umphiem; Nu Po; Mae La Oon; Mae Ra Moe; Htam Hin; Don Yang); Unregistered people in the 7 camps; New Arrivals in the 7 camps; Pre-Screening People in the 7 camps; Number of PAB People in the 7 camps; Boarding House Students in the 7 camps; Feeding Figures in the 7 camps; General Population in the 7 camps."
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English, Karen, Burmese
Format :
pdf
Size:
1.19 MB
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Source/publisher:
"Nature" VOL 558, 14 JUNE 2018
Date of publication:
2018-06-14
Description:
"The Antarctic Ice Sheet is an important indicator of climate change and driver of sea-level rise. Here we combine satellite
observations of its changing volume, flow and gravitational attraction with modelling of its surface mass balance to show
that it lost 2,720 ± 1,390 billion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2017, which corresponds to an increase in mean sea level
of 7.6 ± 3.9 millimetres (errors are one standard deviation). Over this period, ocean-driven melting has caused rates of
ice loss from West Antarctica to increase from 53 ± 29 billion to 159 ± 26 billion tonnes per year; ice-shelf collapse has
increased the rate of ice loss from the Antarctic Peninsula from 7 ± 13 billion to 33 ± 16 billion tonnes per year. We find
large variations in and among model estimates of surface mass balance and glacial isostatic adjustment for East Antarctica,
with its average rate of mass gain over the period 1992?2017 (5 ± 46 billion tonnes per year) being the least certain"
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
"Live Science - Planet Earth"
Date of publication:
2018-06-13
Description:
" Antarctica has lost 3 trillion tons of ice in the past 25 years, and that ice loss has accelerated rapidly over the last five years.
In a new study, the most comprehensive to date of the continent?s icy status, an international group of 84 researchers analyzed data from multiple satellite surveys, from 1992 to 2017.
They discovered that Antarctica is currently losing ice about three times faster than it did until 2012, climbing to a rate of more than 241 billion tons (219 billion metric tons) per year. Total ice loss during the 25-year period contributed to sea level rise of about 0.3 inches (around 8 millimeters), approximately 40 percent of which — about 0.1 inches (3 mm) — happened in the past five years."
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-14
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Myanmar Attorney General?s Office
Description:
"The Myanmar Law Information System is a website providing service of the Myanmar law information"..."The Union Attorney General?s Office has launched the Myanmar Law Information System aimed at providing the public easier access to information and details about the laws of the country.
Union Attorney General U Tun Tun Oo said the website will host the Burma Code Volume 1 to 13, which are laws enacted from 1955 until now, as well as rules, regulations, bylaws, orders, instructions, procedures and subordinate legislation including laws and rules enacted by state and region Hluttaws.
?The public can now easily get law information via their computers or mobile phones. This system will promote legal knowledge and help law enforcement,” he said.
The website will also enable those who access it to see international laws and conventions if Myanmar is a signatory.("Myanmar Times")
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-12
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English, Burmese
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Source/publisher:
Vum Ko Hau
Date of publication:
1963-00-00
Description:
"IT IS a privilege and a pleasure to write this brief note to Ambassador Vum Ko Hau?s
remarkable book. What I know of him, how high a regard I have for him, will appear in the
profile of him that I wrote for The Guardian magazine of Burma several years ago and which is
reproduced in this collection. The memoirs themselves project a deeply human profile of a
remarkable man who, like the memoirs he has composed, is simultaneously simple and sophisticated,
modest and proud, shy and out-going, a man whose heart is in his native hills and yet
who feels quite at home in the glittering diplomacy and statecraft of London or Paris, United
Nations or Rangoon. Here is a man who loves the folklore and folksong of his people, the Chins
of Burma, who is so deeply conscious of his origins as to call himself "Vum Ko Hau of Siyin"
after the valley in which his ancestors and he were born, and yet who is also fond of the
cultures and the fine things of the world, the literatures, the arts, history, music and even the
rare coins.
U Vum Ko Hau wrote to me a few months ago to say that he was preparing the"memoirs
for the press with the very modest purpose of satisfying the wish of his late father — an illustrious
man whom I had the honour to meet in the hills a few years before his death — that
the family be traced and put on the record and the family papers and stories and songs be? preserved
and handed on to the future generations. Only a very small edition is contemplated, U
Vum Ko Hau wrote, for the book would be for family and friends alone. Even then, however,
I at once felt that the author was either unaware of or too modest about the value of the book
,he was writing. In the Chin Hills there is much in the way of oral history, but little is on record.
The tombstones and the monuments tell some tales, but how much can they tell ? And this
oral history, how long can it endure, for memories of man fade. Not history alone, but the
cultures, the mores and the traditions of his people are going into the book, I gathered from
what little U Vum Ko Hau wrote to me in outline, and I told him that such a book will be a
treasure to the historian as well as the anthropologist, the social scientist and the administrator,
and scholars of Burma and of the world. More and more scholars the world over are realizing
that there is no such thing as pure history, pure law, pure science, or pure arts : these are interlinked,
and poor is the historian who looks upon his role as that of a recorder of dates and events,
poor the lawyer who can only glibly cite the statutes and the ancient precedents, poor the
artist who can only dream of beauty in the abstract. More and more the frontiers of fields of
study and scholarship are expanding, and there is much lending "and borrowing and overlapping,
and each field of scholarship, whatever name it bears, only marks a degree of emphasis. Thus
this book which contains, in the author?s own words, "a sort of blend of history, biography,
ethnography, primitive culture, political events, arts, etc" is bound to interest and excite scholars
in many fields. And what a pleasant and potent blend the- book makes ! 1
There is yet another reason why I expect that this book will have a much wider circulation and
a much greater value than the author modestly anticipates. People in Burma do not write memoirs
or collections like this. Our literature is rich, and authors and scholars are many who more
than attain international standards. But come to biography, come to meVnoirs, authors are shy and
reticent. The result is that a large part of our contemporary history is going by unrecorded.
In a decade or so, the historian will find it difficult to get together the raw material for his work.
He may find some old newspapers and bulletins, but much of the history that is being seen at close
quarters, lived through, or made by people like Ambassador Vum Ko Hau would have been lost.
People like U Vum Ko Hau, but not U Vum Ko Hau himself, for here is his book, and before
this he has written and spoken, and after this too, we must hope, he will continue to write
and speak. Here, therefore, is not just the folksong of the Chin Hills, or the story of a family,
but an important part of the living history of our country. Here in this book is much meat
and many beautiful gems, and in writing the book the author has done much more than fulfil the
wish of his late father; he has given us a gift we can treasure and enjoy....
Maung Maung
Rangoon,
March 27, 1963.
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-06
Type:
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Category:
Chin history
Language:
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Date of publication:
2017-06-12
Description:
"Scripps Oceanography?s Octavio Aburto examines how Mangroves, trees that form forests in the transition between land and sea, provide an essential habitat for a great diversity of plants and animals and why it is vital to put enormous efforts into understanding the value of mangrove ecosystems."
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-02
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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Date of publication:
2009-06-00
Description:
Executive summary:
"Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar on 2 and 3 May
2008, making landfall in Ayeyarwady Division,
approximately 250 kilometres (km) southwest of
Yangon. A category 3 cyclone, Nargis affected
more than 50 townships, mainly in Yangon and
Ayeyarwady Divisions, including Yangon, the
country?s largest city. Strong winds and heavy rain
caused the greatest damage in the Ayeyarwady
Delta, where a storm surge compounded the
impact of the cyclone. Nargis was the worst
natural disaster in the history of Myanmar. More
than 140,000 people were killed, mainly by the
storm surge.
Cyclone Nargis caused devastating damage to
the environment of the Ayeyarwady and Yangon
Divisions, an area where local livelihoods are
heavily reliant on the natural resource base.
Cyclone Nargis destroyed 38,000 hectares (ha)
of natural and replanted mangroves, submerged
over 63 percent of paddy fields and damaged
43 percent of freshwater ponds.
The cyclone?s impacts were exacerbated by
earlier damage to the environment, including
deforestation and degradation of mangroves,
over-exploitation of natural resources such as
fisheries, and soil erosion. For example, the heavy
loss of life as a result of the storm surge was primarily
due to prior loss of about 75 percent of the original
mangrove cover in the Delta, which could have
served as a buffer against the storm surge. The
deterioration of the natural resource base, in
effect, reduced people?s resilience against the
impacts of Nargis. The damage caused by the
cyclone in the Ayeyarwady and Yangon Divisions
poses a major challenge for recovery efforts that
are striving to achieve sustainable development
in the region.
Experiences from Cyclone Nargis clearly
demonstrate the vicious circle in which pre-existing
environmental degradation increased vulnerability,
turning a natural hazard into a major disaster. The
disaster resulted in further environmental damage,
jeopardizing the sustainability of livelihoods
and ecosystem functions. The root cause of
environmental degradation in the Ayeyarwady
Delta is poverty.
Unless remedial action is taken to restore livelihoods,
the impacts of Cyclone Nargis will likely increase
poverty as communities have little in reserve to
cope with the disaster. One key lesson from Nargis
is that developing more sustainable livelihoods
can not be achieved by focusing solely on
natural resource management interventions.
Ensuring sustainability will require a coherent
and integrated approach across a number of
sectors, including livelihoods and food security;
shelter; education and training; water, sanitation
and hygiene; disaster risk reduction (DRR); and
protection of vulnerable groups. At the same
time, these sectoral approaches will need to be
augmented by capacity-building and institutional
strengthening for national and local governments
as well as civil society, an enabling framework at
the national level to provide laws and policies that
support sustainable development, and a reliable
information base on the environment."
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2018-06-02
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Category:
Cyclone Nargis: Individual documents
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www via Google
Description:
About 2,090,000 results (June 2018)
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-01
Type:
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Category:
Policies and projects
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About 3,370 results (May 2018)
Date of entry/update:
2018-05-29
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BLUE GLOBE via Youtube
Date of publication:
2014-09-01
Description:
"Scientists, engineers and governments plan for today?s super sized storms by using barriers and technology in an attempt to protect coastal populations..."
Date of entry/update:
2018-05-28
Type:
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Category:
Climate Change science - Sea-level rise
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Transnational Institute (TNI)
Date of publication:
2018-05-22
Description:
"Shifting cultivation is a form of agro-forestry in which the cultivation of annual agricultural crops is combined with fallowing long enough for trees to grow before the plot is cultivated again. Why is shifting cultivation so controversial, and why do different stakeholders hold such divergent views - for some a valuable and honourable tradition but for others virtually a criminal activity?..."
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2018-05-26
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The Gaia Foundation
Date of publication:
2017-12-14
Description:
"In this powerful and positive talk for The Gaia Foundation, George Monbiot brings to life his new book, Out of the Wreckage - A New Politics for an Age of Crisis.
George explains how a toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism not only rules the world, but misrepresents human nature, thereby destroying hope and common purpose whilst fracturing communities and the ecosystems upon which we all depend. He argues that only a positive vision can replace it; a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world, and a more respectful relationship with our beautiful planet.
George explore new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and cooperators. He shows how we can build on these findings to create a new politics: a ?politics of belonging?, and a politics which has community, reciprocity and respect for all species at its heart. Both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganised from the bottom up, enabling us to take back control and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our ambitions for a better society and better stewardship of the Earth.
George provides a thrilling and positive vision, and the hope and clarity required to change the world."
Date of entry/update:
2018-05-23
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Economy and social justice (global)
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Climate State
Date of publication:
2017-04-26
Description:
"The Reality of Climate Change is a global warming documentary about many of the problems and the solutions to the climate crisis."
Date of entry/update:
2018-05-12
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Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science Series 5, Volume 41, April 1896, pages 237-276.
Date of publication:
1896-04-00
Description:
£This photocopy was prepared by Robert A. Rohde for Global Warming
Art (http://www.globalwarmingart.com/) from original printed material
that is now in the public domain.
Arrhenius?s paper is the first to quantify the contribution of carbon
dioxide to the greenhouse effect (Sections I-IV) and to speculate about
whether variations in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide
have contributed to long-term variations in climate (Section V).
Throughout this paper, Arrhenius refers to carbon dioxide as ?carbonic
acid” in accordance with the convention at the time he was writing.
Contrary to some misunderstandings, Arrhenius does not explicitly
suggest in this paper that the burning of fossil fuels will cause global
warming, though it is clear that he is aware that fossil fuels are a
potentially significant source of carbon dioxide (page 270), and he does
explicitly suggest this outcome in later work.£
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2018-05-12
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Climate State
Date of publication:
2017-04-20
Description:
Bill McKibben from http://350.org Jim Hansen, Katharine Hayhoe and others give us an update on the science and solutions to climate change.
Notice there is a typo, the chart at around 10:03 should read 1880 1900, not 1880 1990.
Date of entry/update:
2018-05-09
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Tree Media
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"Green World Rising is a series of short films on the state of climate and solutions to the climate crisis. All the films of Green World Rising are for global distribution, free to the public and hold a Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International. ...
Green World Rising is brought to you by Tree Media with the support of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. The series is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, presented by Thom Hartmann and directed by Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio, Earl Katz and Roee Sharon Peled, and produced by Mathew Schmid.....
The series is comprised of four films:
Last Hours is about the real threat of the release of methane from the melting arctic, thus triggering an extreme climate change event...
Carbon shows how we can keep carbon in the ground through putting a price on carbon...
Green World Rising shows our pathway forward through renewable technology that decentralizes the current power grid...
Restoration discusses how the earth?s natural ecosystems deal with climate and how we can work with nature to turn the tide."
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2018-05-09
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USAID - Fact Sheet
Date of publication:
2017-01-00
Description:
COUNTRY OVERVIEW
"Burma,
also
called
Myanmar,
is
a
mountainous country in
Southeast Asia
with an extensive coastline
and
an estimated
population of 51.4 million people.
The
country
is
inherently
prone to
extreme weather events, including
floods, cyclones
,
tsunami
s
, heavy monsoon
rains,
flood
s
,
storm surges
and
drought
.
For example, t
he
2008
Cy
clone Nargis resulted in
138,000 fatalities.
Climate change increases
the
frequency
and severity of extreme weather events
and poses new threats
from rising seas,
food and water insecuri
ty, and public health
outbreaks.
The majority of Burma?s
population
an
d principal
economic activities are concentrated in coastal and low
-
lying
zones vulnerable to sea level rise
and increased storm surge
.
For example, if sea level
were to
rise by a half meter, the
shoreline of the Ayeyarwad
d
y Delta
?
the country?s main rice
producer
?
would recede by 10
km
.
Burma?s economy,
largely
dependent
on natural resources (mining, forestry, fishing) and
rice production
,
would
also be at risk from higher temperatures and
increased
precipitation
variability
.
Afte
r
50
years
of
military rule
, Burma
transitioned to a civilian government in 2011 and
is at a historic stage in its
development
,
pursuing
p
olitical and econo
mic reforms. Climate change, compounded by high levels of
poverty, high exposure to
natural
hazards
,
and low capacity to respond
to those hazards
, could undermine
the country?s
development efforts and economic progress
if not addressed..."
Date of entry/update:
2018-05-04
Type:
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Category:
Climate Change - Burma/Myanmar: general
Language:
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