Human Rights Education
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
"The Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB) is a progressive organization administering and facilitating human rights trainings, advocacy programs, and internships for Burma ?s diverse communities. We are based on the Thai-Burma border.
HREIB uses a participatory teaching methodology to empower grassroots activists, community leaders, women, sexual minorities, and youth to become trainers, community leaders, and human rights activists..."
Programs;
Publications;
Photo Galleries;
Links.
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB)
Date of entry/update:
2005-02-16
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Human Rights Education, Human Rights Education
Language:
English, Burmese, Karen, Karenni
more
Individual Documents
Description:
''The Government of Myanmar should immediately and unconditionally free seven university students sentenced to three months in prison with hard labor for peacefully protesting security conditions on their university campus in Mandalay, said Athan and Fortify Rights today.
“These convictions are absurd,” said Maung Saungkha, Founder of Athan. “This is yet another example of the Myanmar government jailing students and activists for exercising their right to peacefully assemble. Instead of locking up students for holding a protest, the government should listen to their calls for better security.”
On February 13, the Amarapura Township Court found seven students of Yadanabon University guilty of arson and holding a protest without providing proper notification, sentencing the students to a total of three months’ in prison with hard labor.
The seven students are prominent members of the Yadanabon Student Union and were involved in organizing a series of protests beginning on December 28 on Yadanabon University campus, calling for improved campus security.
The security conditions on the campus of Yadanabon University and in surrounding areas in Mandalay are troubling, said Athan and Fortify Rights. In the fall of 2018, three students—Ko Nay Min Htet, age 19, Htet Lin Thant, age 18, and So Moe Hein, age 20—were robbed and murdered in Mandalay, while up to 15 motorcycles of students are stolen each year, according to the protesters. Yadanabon University employs around 30 security officers to provide security for approximately 25,000 students.
After raising concerns with local officials—including University Rector Maung Maung Naing, Mandalay Regional Chief Minister Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, and other relevant authorities—and failing to receive an adequate response, the Yadanabon Student Union organized protests. In addition to demanding better security for students, they called for toilets to be fixed and more maintenance personnel...''
Source/publisher:
"Fortify Rights"
Date of publication:
2019-02-15
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-23
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Education in Burma/Myanmar - general, Education in Mandalay Region, Human Rights Education
Language:
English
Local URL:
more
Description:
"Burma/Myanmar is currently in a transition with important ramifications for capacity development efforts. The present preliminary study explores some of the critical issues at stake for capacity development activities in order to better understand how the field as a whole can continue to undertake effective trainings and evolve to adapt to current trends. Of particular interest to the researchers is the question of how to teach human rights and social sciences in complex settings such as in Burma/Myanmar and how this field may evolve. The preliminary research has two research interests: contemporary issues of concern in capacity development which need to be addressed by the current stakeholders; and the interaction between the stakeholders within the capacity development network (including Burma/Myanmar participants, Burma/Myanmar organizations, universities, Thai based organizations, political groups, and so on). As a preliminary study, this report seeks to give some first impressions of the current situation of the capacity development field during a period of change in Burma/Myanmar. This research does not attempt to quantify the field or undertake a mapping of it. Rather, the preliminary study intends to draw out issues and concerns expressed by stakeholders in capacity development which can guide future directions of activity, development, and research.
The capacity development field is large, yet there has been limited analysis of how this field works and few studies of how stakeholders adapt to current changes. This report wishes to contribute to the understanding of capacity development in the field of human rights and social sciences in three specific ways:
• Understanding how and why young Myanmar people get involved in civil society activities.
• Understanding how the capacity development field is structured and how it operates.
• Understanding what organizational and quality concerns capacity development organizations should be addressing..."
Camilla Buzzi, Mike Hayes, Matthew Mullen
Source/publisher:
Institute for Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University
Date of publication:
2012-02-21
Date of entry/update:
2012-02-21
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Tertiary (higher) education, training and capacity-building, Civil Society, Dialogue/transition: resources, Human Rights Education
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
404.07 KB
Local URL:
more
Description:
"With the onset of the cold season the State Peace & Development Council (SPDC) has been able to push ahead with military attacks against villages and displaced communities in the northern districts of Karen State. In Thaton District and other areas further south, however, the military is more firmly in control, fewer displaced communities are able to remain in hiding, and SPDC rule is facilitated by the presence of its ally the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA). By increasingly relying on DKBA forces to administer Thaton, the SPDC has been able to free up soldiers and resources which can then be deployed elsewhere. To force the civilian population into submission, the DKBA has scoured villages throughout Thaton - detaining, interrogating and torturing villagers and conscripting them to serve as army porters. Commensurate with its increased control over the civilian population, DKBA soldiers have subjected villagers to regular extortion, arbitrary and excessive ?taxation?, forced labour, land confiscation and restrictions on movement, trade and education which all serve to support ongoing military rule in Thaton. By systematising control over local villagers, the SPDC and DKBA have been able to implement ?development? projects that financially benefit and further entrench the military hierarchy. Amongst such initiatives, the construction in Thaton District of the United Nations-supported Asian Highway, connecting Burma with neighbouring countries, has involved uncompensated land confiscation and forced labour..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Field Report (KHRG #2006-F11)
Date of publication:
2006-12-21
Date of entry/update:
2009-11-08
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food Security and militarisation in Burma, Torture and ill-treatment: reports of incidents in Burma, Non-ILO Reports on forced labour, including forced portering, in Karen (Kayin) State, Human Rights Education
Language:
English
Local URL:
more
Description:
"This report includes interviews with two deserters who fled the Burma Army in 2008 and spoke to KHRG about their experiences in February 2009. The interviews cover issues of forced recruitment, child soldiers, corruption and theft within the army, low moral and desertion, and the brutal treatment of both civilians and fellow soldiers by armed forces personnel..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Field Reports (KHRG #2009-F9)
Date of publication:
2009-04-27
Date of entry/update:
2009-10-30
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Karen, Child labour in Burma, Childrens's rights in Karen State - reports of violations, Human Rights Education, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against individual ethnic groups
Language:
English
Local URL:
more
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB)
Date of publication:
2004-05-31
Date of entry/update:
2005-02-16
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Human Rights Education
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
Format :
pdf
Size:
2.95 MB
more
Description:
Manual in Burmese (120 pages) of human rights standards and mechanisms.
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB)
Date of publication:
2004-02-29
Date of entry/update:
2005-02-16
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Human Rights Education
Language:
Burmese
Format :
pdf
Size:
1.06 MB
Local URL:
more