In the year following ASEAN?s member states signing the Charter on 20 November 2007, Burma?s military regime has openly trampled on the values and rights enumerated in the document. The regime has used the ?grace” period for the formal enactment of the Charter as a politically expedient way of engaging in further rights violations and oppression. The briefer summarizes the military regime?s actions in the year since it signed the Charter...... CONTENTS: 2 SPDC DEFILES ASEAN CHARTER... 3 ASEAN says, SPDC does... 4 Burma in numbers... 4 ASEAN still lacks political will on Burma..... INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: 7 ASEAN from revulsion to rescue... 9 UN frustration, more sanctions, and more condemnation... 10 Cyclone Nargis..... DEMOCRACY: 11 SPDC imposes constitution..... HUMAN RIGHTS: 13 Crackdown on dissidents... 14 Detention conditions... 14 Forced labor practices ? no end in sight... 15 Freedom of information..... MILITARY: 17 SPDC offensive intensifies in Eastern Burma... 17 Arms flow into Burma..... DISPLACEMENT: 18 Migrant workers from Burma in the region..... AID: 19 Restrictions on humanitarian aid... 19 Cyclone Nargis... 20 Disaster mismanagement..... WOMEN & CHILDREN: 22 Women ? violence continues with impunity... 22 Children ? the most vulnerable..... HEALTH: 24 Curable diseases turn deadly... 24 Food security ? hungrier than ever... 25 SPDC ? Still Asia?s chief supplier of amphetamines, world?s #2 source of heroin...... ECONOMY: 27 Trade and investment goes forward... 27 Sanctions... 28 Reconstruction... 28 Dams... 30 The year of shame in review.