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အဓိကအကြောင်းအရာ
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The Rohingya Issues written by Jacques P Leider.
31 books.
Source/publisher:
"Academia.edu" (USA)
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-30
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Date of entry/update:
2019-10-22
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Smokey_the_Bear_Sutra.pdf
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Date of entry/update:
2019-10-22
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Rilke - The Poet's Death.pdf
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"DS has just published a major 184-page legal report on the land grabbing in Myanmar and how these processes constitute internationally wrongful acts. The report includes a 21-step legal roadmap to end land grabbing once and for in Myanmar, a nation that is one of the worst in the world in
Although the general power of States to compulsorily acquire, expropriate or otherwise confiscate or ‘grab’ land, homes and properties is legislatively recognised in virtually all national legal systems, to be lawful these processes generally carry with them five fundamental pre-conditions. Namely, when housing, land or property rights are revoked or limited through these processes, this can only be carried out when the taking concerned is:
1) subject to law and due process;
2) subject to the general principles of international law;
3) in the interest of society and not for the benefit of another private party;
4) proportionate, reasonable and subject to a fair balance test between the cost and the aim sought; and
5) subject to the provision of just and satisfactory compensation..."
Source/publisher:
"Displacement Solutions" (Switzerland) via Reliefweb
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-21
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Land research including land grabbing - global and regional, Tenure insecurity in Burma (including land grabbing), Customary tenure - global and regional, International resources on land rights and tenure
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1.59 MB (184 pages)
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76 photographs of Brazilian photographer, Sebastiao Salgado.
Source/publisher:
"Sebastiao Salgado"
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-08
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Individual Documents
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"One of the 20th century’s most prolific scholars of Islamic mysticism, Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was Professor of Islam & Islamic Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Tehran. (Iran)
Corbin’s central project was to provide a framework for understanding the unity of the religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. His great work: “Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi “is a classic initiatory text of visionary spirituality that transcends the tragic divisions among the three great monotheisms.
Corbin’s life was devoted to the struggle to free the religious imagination from fundamentalisms of every kind.
Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi is one of the world's great spiritual teachers.
Ibn 'Arabi was born in Murcia, Spain in 1165 and his writings had an immense impact throughout the Islamic world and beyond. The universal ideas underlying his thought are of immediate relevance today.
Music: Armand Amar
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satash8 (video)
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-05
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Individual Documents
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Sub-title:
(The End Of Suffering)
Description/subject:
Read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem.
The creators of this audio track were Gary Malkin, the composer/arranger, producer, and collaborator Michael Stillwater. The work came from a CD/book called Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, and it could be purchased by going to wisdomoftheworld.com.
The creator of this video is R Smittenaar. This video can be downloaded at: https://vimeo.com/6518109
Visuals taken from:
HOME, Earth and Baraka
Source/publisher:
Plum Village
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-05
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Individual Documents
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"More than a million students are expected to walk out of class on Friday in a Global Climate Strike, with more than 800 climate strikes scheduled in the United States alone. Strikes are also being organized in another 150 countries around the world. In our New York studio, we speak to Amnesty International’s Secretary General Kumi Naidoo, who has urged school districts across the globe to allow students to walk out of school on Friday without facing punishment. In a letter, Naidoo, who is also the former executive director of Greenpeace, writes, “(c)hildren should not be punished for speaking out about the great injustices of our age. In fact, when it has fallen on young people to show the leadership that many adults who hold great positions of power have failed to, it is not young people’s behavior we should be questioning. It is ours.”..."
Source/publisher:
"Democracy Now!"
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-20
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Individual Documents
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"Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle the climate crisis.
Living ecosystems like forests, mangroves, swamps and seabeds can pull enormous quantities of carbon from the air and store them safely, but natural climate solutions currently receive only 2% of the funding spent on cutting emissions.
The film’s director, Tom Mustill of Gripping Films, said: 'We tried to make the film have the tiniest environmental impact possible. We took trains to Sweden to interview Greta, charged our hybrid car at George’s house, used green energy to power the edit and recycled archive footage rather than shooting new.'..."
Source/publisher:
"Guardian News"
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-20
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Individual Documents
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"We are facing an emergency resulting from our toxic economic and political system. The way we relate to each other and to nature is destroying Earth’s capacity to sustain life.
Unending economic growth and profits drawn from a planet with limited resources is causing gross inequality, poverty, mass misery, and species extinction.
We are sold an illusion that consumption will bring purpose and happiness into our lives, yet this systemic consumption is threatening our very existence. It is based on unjust and unethical land use and ownership, unsustainable and increasing amounts of debt and enslavement of individuals.
Power and money is concentrated in the hands of the few, while the masses struggle to simply survive. It is causing climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.
As Greta Thunberg has been saying since the ‘Declaration of Rebellion’ last October 31:
'We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed.
Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.
So, everyone out there, it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel.’.."
Source/publisher:
"Extinction Rebellion"
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-20
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Individual Documents
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"In her first extended broadcast interview in the United States, we spend the hour with Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who has inspired millions across the globe. Last year she launched a school strike for the climate, skipping school every Friday to stand in front of the Swedish parliament, demanding action to prevent catastrophic climate change. Her protest spread, quickly going global. Hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren around the globe have participated in their own local school strikes for the climate. Since her strike began in 2018, Greta has become a leading figure in the climate justice movement. She has joined protests across Europe. She has addressed world leaders at the U.N. climate talks in Poland and the European Union Parliament. She has even met the pope. And now she is in New York to join a global climate strike on September 20 and address the U.N. Climate Action Summit on September 23. Greta has refused to fly for years because of emissions, so she arrived here after a two-week transatlantic voyage aboard a zero-emissions racing yacht. She is also planning to attend the U.N. climate summit in Santiago, Chile, in December. Greta joined us Tuesday in our Democracy Now! studio..."
Source/publisher:
"Democracy Now!"
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-12
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"မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ နှင့် ကျား/မ အခြေပြု အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများနှင့်၊ တိုင်းရင်းသား ပဋိပက္ခများက လိင်အုပ်စုတစ်စုစီကို တမျိုးစီ ကွဲပြားစွာသက်ရောက်ပုံ။ (အကျဉ်းချုပ်)...(၂၀၁၈) စက်တင်ဘာလတွင် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးကောင်စီသို့ ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သော အစီရင်ခံစာ (ယခုမစ၍ "၂၀၁၈ အစီရင်ခံစာ") အတွင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ သီးသန့်လွတ်လပ်သော နိုင်ငံတကာ အချက်အလက်ရှာဖွေရေးကော်မစ်ရှင် (ယခုမစ၍ "ကော်မစ်ရှင်က" "(၂၀၁၁) ခုနှစ်မှစ၍ ရခိုင်၊ ကချင်နှင့်ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်များရှိ အရပ်သားပြည်သူများကို ပစ်မှတ်ထားသော ကျူးလွန်မှုများတွင် မုဒိမ်းမှုနှင့်လိင်ဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများသည် အလွန်အကျွံဆိုးရွားပြီး၊ အဖန်တလဲလဲ ဖြစ်ပွါးနေသော လက္ခဏာတရပ်ဖြစ်သည်"ဟုကောက်ချက်ချခဲ့သည်။..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/42/CRP.4)
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-23
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Statements, reports, press briefings and webcasts on Myanmar by fact-finding entities mandated by the Council, Myanmar Documents submitted to CEDAW by civil society organisations, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Women's rights, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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"1. In its report to the Human Rights Council in September 20181
(hereinafter “the 2018
Report”), the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (hereinafter
“The Mission”) concluded that “rape and other sexual violence have been a particularly
egregious and recurrent feature of the targeting of the civilian population in Rakhine,
Kachin and Shan States since 2011”.
2. The Mission found that sexual and gender-based violence was a hallmark of the
Tatmadaw’s operations in northern Myanmar and in Rakhine. These violations, for most
part perpetrated against ethnic women and girls, were used with the intent to intimidate,
terrorise and punish the civilian population and as a tactic of war. The Tatmadaw was
overwhelmingly the main perpetrator.
3. Two years after the “clearance operations” against the Rohingya population in
Rakhine, and one year since the publication of the Mission’s findings, accountability for
these egregious acts remains elusive. The Mission felt compelled to issue this thematic
report, further exposing these grave violations that the Mission considers amount to war
crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide.
4. In examining the situation of sexual and gender-based violence in Myanmar, the
Mission also reviewed the situation of gender inequality in Myanmar more broadly. It
found a direct nexus between the lack of gender equality more generally within the country
and within ethnic communities, and the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence.
Impunity for gender-based violence in Myanmar is exacerbated by underlying gender
inequality. Ethnic women and girls are doubly victimised: as women and girls and as
members of ethnic minority communities.
5. In its 2018 report, the Mission found that men and boys have also been victims of
sexual and gender-based violence by security forces. On 23 April 2019, in its resolution
2467, the Security Council recognized that sexual and gender-based violence also targets
men and boys in armed conflict and post-conflict settings, as well as in the context of
detention settings, and in the context of those associated with armed groups. Violent
conflict impacts men, women, boys, girls and those with diverse gender identities
differently. While there is an increasing awareness of the importance of gender in efforts to
build sustainable peace, much of the focus has been on women and girls. The experiences
of men and boys have not been understood well. Against this background, the Mission
conducted further investigations into the situation of sexual and gender-based violence
against men and boys in the context of Myanmar’s ethnic conflicts and found that they have
been subjected to sexual and gender-based violence, especially in the context of detention
settings. The physical and psychological consequences are severe and far-reaching,
exacerbated by the stigma attached to male rape..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/42/CRP.4)
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-23
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Statements, reports, press briefings and webcasts on Myanmar by fact-finding entities mandated by the Council, Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) - UN/Myanmar documents, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Women's rights, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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2019-08-22-A_HRC_CRP_4-en-red.pdf
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"The U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar said the country’s military must stop using sexual and gender-based violence to terrorise and punish ethnic minorities. The Mission said the brutal tactic was still being employed in Kachin and Shan states, and was so severe in Rakhine State, during the “clearance operations” of 2017, that it was a factor indicating the Myanmar military’s genocidal intent to destroy the Rohingya population.
The Mission made its conclusions in a new report, released Thursday in New York, that soldiers routinely and systematically employed rape, gang rape and other violent and forced sexual acts against women, girls, boys, men and transgender people in blatant violation of international human rights law.
“Extreme physical violence, the openness in which it is conducted … reflects a widespread culture of tolerance towards humiliation and the deliberate infliction of severe physical and mental pain or suffering on civilians,” the report said.
Marzuki Darusman, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission, said, “The international community must hold the Myanmar military to account for the tremendous pain and suffering it has inflicted on persons of all genders across the country.”
The Mission conducted interviews with hundreds of survivors and witnesses of sexual violence in Kachin and Shan States in the north, and in Rakhine State in the west, where the military’s “clearance operations” that began on 25 August 2017 led to more than 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh. On the second anniversary of the beginning of the operations, this report is an important reminder of the continuing need for accountability...လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ကျားမ အခြေပြု အကြမ်းဖက်ခံရသူများအတွက် တရားမျှတမှုကို ကုလသမဂအချက်အလက်ရှာဖွေရေးမစ်ရှင် တောင်းဆိုချက်..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/42/CRP.4)
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-23
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Statements, reports, press briefings and webcasts on Myanmar by fact-finding entities mandated by the Council, Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) - UN/Myanmar documents, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Women's rights, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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Description/subject:
"1. In its report to the Human Rights Council in September 20181
(hereinafter “the 2018
Report”), the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (hereinafter
“The Mission”) concluded that “rape and other sexual violence have been a particularly
egregious and recurrent feature of the targeting of the civilian population in Rakhine,
Kachin and Shan States since 2011”.
2. The Mission found that sexual and gender-based violence was a hallmark of the
Tatmadaw’s operations in northern Myanmar and in Rakhine. These violations, for most
part perpetrated against ethnic women and girls, were used with the intent to intimidate,
terrorise and punish the civilian population and as a tactic of war. The Tatmadaw was
overwhelmingly the main perpetrator.
3. Two years after the “clearance operations” against the Rohingya population in
Rakhine, and one year since the publication of the Mission’s findings, accountability for
these egregious acts remains elusive. The Mission felt compelled to issue this thematic
report, further exposing these grave violations that the Mission considers amount to war
crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide.
4. In examining the situation of sexual and gender-based violence in Myanmar, the
Mission also reviewed the situation of gender inequality in Myanmar more broadly. It
found a direct nexus between the lack of gender equality more generally within the country
and within ethnic communities, and the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence.
Impunity for gender-based violence in Myanmar is exacerbated by underlying gender
inequality. Ethnic women and girls are doubly victimised: as women and girls and as
members of ethnic minority communities.
5. In its 2018 report, the Mission found that men and boys have also been victims of
sexual and gender-based violence by security forces. On 23 April 2019, in its resolution
2467, the Security Council recognized that sexual and gender-based violence also targets
men and boys in armed conflict and post-conflict settings, as well as in the context of
detention settings, and in the context of those associated with armed groups. Violent
conflict impacts men, women, boys, girls and those with diverse gender identities
differently. While there is an increasing awareness of the importance of gender in efforts to
build sustainable peace, much of the focus has been on women and girls. The experiences
of men and boys have not been understood well. Against this background, the Mission
conducted further investigations into the situation of sexual and gender-based violence
against men and boys in the context of Myanmar’s ethnic conflicts and found that they have
been subjected to sexual and gender-based violence, especially in the context of detention
settings. The physical and psychological consequences are severe and far-reaching,
exacerbated by the stigma attached to male rape......မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ကျား/မ အခြေပြု အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများနှင့်၊ တိုင်းရင်းသားပဋိပက္ခများက လိင်အုပ်စုတစ်စုစီကို တစ်မျိုးစီ ကွဲပြားစွာ သက်ရောက်ပုံ။..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/42/CRP.4)
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-23
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Statements, reports, press briefings and webcasts on Myanmar by fact-finding entities mandated by the Council, Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) - UN/Myanmar documents, Sexual orientation - Discrimination based on, Women's rights
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"Extended interview with Indian writer Arundhati Roy talking about her new novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," Kashmir, Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Indian President Narendra Modi, and two of Roy’s biggest inspirations—Eduardo Galeano and John Berger"
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now! via Youtube
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-20
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Individual Documents
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Description/subject:
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases new report detailing how land use contributes to climate change..."
Source/publisher:
"euronews (in English)" via The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-09
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Individual Documents
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Sub-title:
IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse gas fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Description/subject:
"This Special Report on Climate Change and Land1 responds to the Panel decision in 2016 to
prepare three Special Reports2 during the Sixth Assessment cycle, taking account of proposals
from governments and observer organizations3
. This report addresses greenhouse gas (GHG)
fluxes in land-based ecosystems , land use and sustainable land management4 in relation to climate
change adaptation and mitigation, desertification5
, land degradation6 and food security7
. This
report follows the publication of other recent reports, including the IPCC Special Report on Global
Warming of 1.5°C (SR15), the thematic assessment of the Intergovernmental Science Policy
Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on Land Degradation and Restoration,
the IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and the Global
Land Outlook of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). This report provides
an updated assessment of the current state of knowledge8 while striving for coherence and
complementarity with other recent reports.
This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) is structured in four parts: A) People, land and climate in
a warming world; B) Adaptation and mitigation response options; C) Enabling response options;
and D) Action in the near-term.
Confidence in key findings is indicated using the IPCC calibrated language9
; the underlying
scientific basis of each key finding is indicated by references to the main report. The terrestrial portion of the biosphere that comprises the natural resources (soil, near-surface air, vegetation and
other biota, and water), the ecological processes, topography, and human settlements and infrastructure that operate
within that system.
2 The three Special reports are: “Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming
of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of
strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate
poverty.”; “Climate Change and Land: an IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land
Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse gas fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems”;
“The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”
3 related proposals were: climate change and desertification; desertification with regional aspects; land degradation –
an assessment of the interlinkages and integrated strategies for mitigation and adaptation; agriculture, foresty and other
landuse; food and agriculture; and food security and climate change.
4 Sustainable Land Management is defined in this report as “the stewardship and use of land resources, including soils,
water, animals and plants, to meet changing human needs, while simultaneously ensuring the long-term productive
potential of these resources and the maintenance of their environmental functions”. 5 Desertification is defined in this report as ‘land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas resulting
from many factors, including climatic variations and human activities’.
6 Land degradation is defined in this report as ‘a negative trend in land condition, caused by direct or indirect human
induced processes, including anthropogenic climate change, expressed as long-term reduction and as loss of at least
one of the following: biological productivity, ecological integrity, or value to humans’. 7 Food security is defined in this report as ‘a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social,
and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an
active and healthy life’..."
Source/publisher:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-09
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - Migration Global, Biodiversity - international standards and mechanisms, International standards, mechanisms and guidelines relating to land, including tenure, Food Security - global and regional literature, Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries
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In March 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Council established a Fact-Finding Mission to establish the facts and circumstances of the alleged recent human rights violations by military and security forces, and abuses, in Myanmar.
Description/subject:
"The U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar urged the international community on Monday to sever ties with Myanmar’s military and the vast web of companies it controls and relies on. The Mission said the revenues the military earns from domestic and foreign business deals substantially enhances its ability to carry out gross violations of human rights with impunity.
The report, for the first time, establishes in detail the degree to which Myanmar’s military has used its own businesses, foreign companies and arms deals to support brutal operations against ethnic groups that constitute serious crimes under international law, bypassing civilian oversight and evading accountability.
The Mission said the U.N. Security Council and Member States should immediately impose targeted sanctions against companies run by the military, known as the Tatmadaw. It encouraged consumers, investors and firms at home and abroad to engage with businesses unaffiliated with the military instead.
The Mission also called for the imposition of an arms embargo, citing at least 14 foreign firms from seven nations that have supplied fighter jets, armored combat vehicles, warships, missiles and missile launchers to Myanmar since 2016. During this period the military carried out extensive and systematic human rights violations against civilians in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine States, including the forced deportation of more than 700,000 ethnic Rohingya to Bangladesh..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/42/CRP.3)
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-05
Type:
Individual Documents
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Description/subject:
"The persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar caused shock waves around the world, but there is another conflict raging in the country. Fighting has intensified between government forces and Kachin rebels fighting for self-determination..."
Source/publisher:
Sky News
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-18
Type:
Individual Documents
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Summary:
"In April, hundreds of people packed into the Old South Church in Boston to hear the world-renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky speak. In this hour-long special, we air an excerpt of Chomsky’...
Description/subject:
"In April, hundreds of people packed into the Old South Church in Boston to hear the world-renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky speak. In this hour-long special, we air an excerpt of Chomsky’s speech and his on-stage interview with Amy Goodman"....includes transcript
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now!
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-06
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Source/publisher:
Plum Village
Date of publication:
2012-11-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-20
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Source/publisher:
Plum Village
Date of publication:
2007-09-26
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-20
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
text
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Source/publisher:
Satash8
Date of publication:
1164-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-20
Type:
Individual Documents
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Language:
English
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satash8 via Youtube
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-20
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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" The site contains Books (in English and Shan) , Articles, Epic Poetry , Dhamma, Folk songs and Tai Tube ( YouTube collections).
Khamkoo
Source/publisher:
Khamkoo
Date of publication:
2019-06-17
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Tai-Kadai languages: Shan
Language:
English, Shan
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Description/subject:
" A Sgaw Karen - English Dictionary with examples in Karen. Digitized versions of some of Rev. Jonathan Wade's English - Sgaw Karen language materials which were first published in the mid-19th century have recently become available..."
Rev. Jonathan Wade
Source/publisher:
Drum Publication Group
Date of publication:
2008-04-08
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Educational resources and materials (Burma- and non-Burma-related), Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen
Language:
Sgaw Karen, English
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Description/subject:
"Digitized versions of some of Rev. Jonathan Wade's English - Sgaw Karen language materials which were first published in the mid-19th century have recently become available..."
Rev. Jonathan Wade
Source/publisher:
Drum Publication Group
Date of publication:
2008-04-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Type:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen, Educational resources and materials (Burma- and non-Burma-related)
Language:
Sgaw Karen, English
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Description/subject:
"A small reference book in Sgaw Karen language with brief profiles of 38 famous people in history from Cleopatra to Mozart to Nelson Mandela..."
Drum Publication Group
Source/publisher:
Drum Publication Group
Date of publication:
2008-03-31
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen
Language:
Sgaw Karen
Font:
Unicode
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Description/subject:
"Based on the Time Magazine list of the 100 most influential people of the twentieth century, this reference book for middle to high school students provides brief biographies of Time’s top 20 most influential leaders and revolutionaries of the 20th century in Sgaw Karen language. This complements the previously published Drum book “People in History” for elementary to middle school students..."
Drum Publication Group
Source/publisher:
Drum Publication Group
Date of publication:
2008-03-31
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-17
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen
Language:
Sgaw Karen
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Description/subject:
"Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, among others, are platforms enabling free expression of information and ideas, but they are also increasingly used to spread fake news and hate speech - making serious public policy discussions more difficult and thereby undermining democracies. What is the state of freedom of speech around the world? Is democracy under threat from all the misinformation and manipulation? And how do you police the internet without censorship and restricting freedom of expression? David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur for freedom of expression, is an independent expert who is tasked by the UN Human Rights Council to report and monitor on the freedom of expression globally - including on the internet and social media. "The problem that we see all around the world today is that governments are increasingly interfering with all sorts of human rights, but in terms of my mandate, they are interfering increasingly with everyone's right to freedom of expression and this is unfortunately a global phenomenon," he told Al Jazeera. Since 2014, when Kaye started his role, he has seen the state of freedom of expression going backwards. "We have seen increasing efforts by political leaders, by governments to restrict the kind of robust debate that we expect in democratic societies. We see an increasing concentration of media controlled by the state, it's been deeply problematic over the last couple of years." While the US has traditionally played a role in advocating for freedom of expression, US President Donald Trump may be sending a different message. "When you have a president who attacks the media on a regular basis, where he calls the media 'the enemy of the people' which I think he does for strategic purposes to sow doubt in the people's opinion about media and in the truthfulness of traditional reporting, I think that's deeply problematic," Kaye said, adding, "the rhetoric gives some comfort to authoritarians." While Kaye says some societies - like North Korea - are "closed", others may have journalists targeted for their words. The brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on October 2, 2018, inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, has led to a demand for accountability and transparency. US intelligence agencies have concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also referred to as MBS, ordered the murder of Khashoggi - a conclusion the Saudi kingdom denies. Kaye says there is a broader issue of inaction in the face of Khashoggi's murder. "There's been no effort in the UN system by states to seek to censure Saudi Arabia, except in one instance led by Iceland actually in the Human Rights Council. Except for that, in an informal way, there's been very little censure of Saudi Arabia for its role in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and I think that is frankly a travesty," he said. "All of the threads lead back to the crown prince. He is responsible, I think that seems pretty clear. Whether it amounts to criminal culpability, I think is a question I would really like to see handled by the structures of the UN system." The UN determined that the ability to use Facebook was one of the motivators for people to incite violence against the Rohingya in 2016 and 2017. "Facebook really did not do anything in the face of that incitement of violence even though that was inconsistent with its own rules for participating in the service," Kaye said. Facebook acknowledged it wasn't doing enough to prevent the incitement of violence against the Rohingya community and created additional rules to address the issue, but Kaye noted in many instances it is a real question whether companies are consistently enforcing these rules. "The major problem here is that we don't know because they are not transparent about their implementations of their rules." Kaye said government regulation to ensure transparency may be a solution but the other issue is policing the internet without censorship. According to Kaye, the internet itself has changed and it is no longer a place where you can discover a whole world of information without any restrictions. "It was very difficult for governments to impose restrictions. But that internet is gone," he said. "The internet in the last 15 years has made censorship easier, rather than allow us to reach what we had expected at some level, which might have been a naive expectation of a nirvana of free speech online." "
David Kaye (interviewee), James Bays (interviewer)
Source/publisher:
Al Jazeera (Talk to Al Jazeera) via Youtube
Date of publication:
2019-06-09
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-09
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Description/subject:
"Home is a 2009 documentary directed by French photographer, reporter and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand and produced by Luc Besson. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows how tightly linked Man and nature are, and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet. The English version of the film is narrated by Glenn Close.
Yann Arthus-Bertand is especially known for his book Earth from Above, published in 1999. As a aerial photographer, the main goal of his work is to help people see how beautiful Earth is and to raise awareness of the negative impact of human activities on our ecosystem..."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (film-maker), Armand Amar (composer)
Source/publisher:
GoodPlanet Foundation
Date of publication:
2015-07-15
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-05
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - climate education, introductions, films, guides, links, bibliographies, The global environment - resources
Language:
English
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Description/subject:
"What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ?
Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Working with a dedicated team of translators, journalists and cameramen, Yann captures deeply personal and emotional accounts of topics that unite us all; struggles with poverty, war, homophobia, and the future of our planet mixed with moments of love and happiness..... The VOL.3 deals with the themes of love, women, work and poverty.
In order to share this unique image bank everywhere and for everyone,
HUMAN exist in several versions :
A theatre version (3h11) , a tv version (2h11) and a 3 volumes version for the web..."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (film-maker), Armand Amar (composer)
Source/publisher:
GoodPlanet Foundation
Date of publication:
2015-09-11
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-02
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Inter-Communal violence and discrimination - global
Language:
Multiple languages sub-titles
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Description/subject:
"What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ?
Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Working with a dedicated team of translators, journalists and cameramen, Yann captures deeply personal and emotional accounts of topics that unite us all; struggles with poverty, war, homophobia, and the future of our planet mixed with moments of love and happiness.....The VOL.2 deals with the themes of love, women, work and poverty.
In order to share this unique image bank everywhere and for everyone,
HUMAN exist in several versions :
A theatre version (3h11) , a tv version (2h11) and a 3 volumes version for the web..."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (film-maker), Armand Amar (composer)
Source/publisher:
GoodPlanet Foundation
Date of publication:
2015-09-11
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-02
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Inter-Communal violence and discrimination - global
Language:
Multiple languages sub-titles
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Description/subject:
"What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ?
Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Working with a dedicated team of translators, journalists and cameramen, Yann captures deeply personal and emotional accounts of topics that unite us all; struggles with poverty, war, homophobia, and the future of our planet mixed with moments of love and happiness.....The VOL.1 deals with the themes of love, women, work and poverty.
In order to share this unique image bank everywhere and for everyone,
HUMAN exist in several versions :
A theatre version (3h11) , a tv version (2h11) and a 3 volumes version for the web..."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (film-maker), Armand Amar (composer)
Source/publisher:
GoodPlanet Foundation
Date of publication:
2015-09-11
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-02
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Inter-Communal violence and discrimination - global
Language:
Multiple languages sub-titles
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"A statement from the Chinese government on Sunday has renewed concerns among ethnic Kachin over the stalled Myitsone dam project. In the statement, the Chinese Embassy in Yangon claimed that Kachin political leaders and social organizations had a “positive attitude” toward the dam. It added that “local people of Kachin State do not oppose the Myitsone hydropower project; it is some individuals and social organizations from outside that oppose the project.”
Three Kachin political parties and community leader Rev. Hkalam Samson immediately issued a statement of their own to insist that China’s claims were false and misleading.
It is obvious that the people of Myanmar, and the Kachin in particular, have been opposed to the Myitsone dam projects even before it forced thousands of Kachin villagers to relocate.
Myitsone is hardly China’s only planned dam in Myanmar. It also hopes to build dams in Lasa on the Mali River and in Khaunglanghpu, Phizaw, Lakin and Pashe on the Nmai River. A dam on the Nmai in Chiphwi is already finished..."
JOE KUMBUN
Source/publisher:
The Irrawaddy
Date of publication:
2019-01-15
Date of entry/update:
2019-05-31
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Dams and other projects on the Irrawaddy and its tributories, Burma's economic relations with China, China-Burma relations
Language:
English
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Description/subject:
"Life After Conflict: Healing the Environmental Wounds of War:
earthrise looks at ways of healing one of the silent and often forgotten casualties of war – the environment.
In conflict, one of the silent and forgotten casualties is often the environment.
From the chemical contamination of soils with chemicals, and the collapse of water and food supplies, to the habitat damage caused by displacement, war has devastating consequences. Not only man-made infrastructures but also natural ecosystems are destroyed and lives lost.
But even amid the most vicious struggles, there are people fighting to protect the world we live in and recover what was lost.
"Protection of the environment is a norm. It's something which we do, where are standards in place. Yet, during conflict, it is almost as if anything goes. You can cause whatever damage you like and there is no accountability, there's no redress," says Doug Weir, director, The Conflict and Environment Observatory
The Rohingya and the elephants
In August 2017, a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing began in Myanmar. The military and armed fighters claimed the lives of more than 6,000 Rohingya in just one month. Fearing death, thousands more fled the country for the forests of Bangladesh.
The scale of the exodus was enormous, and today they are still unable to return home.
Over 1.2 million refugees are living in the sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh. When they arrived, they were unaware that the forest in which they took shelter was already occupied - by wild elephants. Shortly after they settled, elephants began to rampage through the camp, killing 13 people in the space of five months.
"All the camps used to be forest, they used to be elephant habitat," says Raquib Amin, an IUCN Bangladesh representative. "There is a space we call elephant corridor ... since the camp, [we are] completely blocking that corridor. Elephants cannot pass through the camp ... it is in search of its shelter, its food, its migration path."
earthrise travelled to Kutupalong Camp in Bangladesh to find out how the Rohingya are learning to live with their elephant neighbours and how they are saving lives, both human and elephant, in the process.
Saving Syria's Seed Bank
In Lebanon, ICARDA seed bank, where seeds are saved from a bank in Aleppo, Syria, is helping scientists develop new pest and weather resistant crops. Crop diversity, which is so essential for food security, has declined by three quarters since the 1900s. The world's insurance policy is a network of 1,750 seed banks which safeguard plant biodiversity and can be turned to in times of crisis.
But conflict can make even the seed banks themselves vulnerable.
"It became impossible to access the gene bank in October 2015 because we were banned from accessing the centre by the armed group controlling the area," says Syrian seed conservationist Ali Shehadeh. "They stole the vehicles, they stole a lot of equipment ... nothing was left in the headquarters except the building and the gene bank."
We meet a remarkable team of scientists who have fled the horrors of the Syrian war and are rebuilding the ICARDA seed bank in the heart of the fertile crescent where agriculture began..."
Source/publisher:
Al Jazeera
Date of publication:
2019-05-28
Date of entry/update:
2019-05-31
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Internal displacement/forced migration of Rohingyas, Discrimination against the Rohingya
Language:
English
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"Energy use in our homes, industry and transport accounts for two thirds of our total human induced carbon dioxide emissions. Far from dramatically reducing since the 'historic' Paris agreement in 2015, those emissions have actually started to creep back up. The world is now catastrophically off track to meet any of the lower pathways set out by the IPCC special report published in 2018. We know what we must do. So why aren't we doing it.? This week we look at a new report just out from the International Renewable Energy Agency, which provides a stark assessment of what's required..."
Dave Borlace
Source/publisher:
Just Have a Think
Date of publication:
2019-04-28
Date of entry/update:
2019-05-28
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - networks, campaigns, guides, resources, Tools for advocates and activists
Language:
English
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Description/subject:
"Extinction Rebellion : Supplementary Video Diary.
By the time the police began to clear the Pink Boat from Oxford Circus, the Extinction Rebels had clearly become quite emotionally attached to it and were reluctant to give it up without a (non-violent) struggle. This supplementary video documents the events of the evening of Good Friday 19th April 2019..."
Dave Borlace
Source/publisher:
Just Have a Think
Date of publication:
2019-04-21
Date of entry/update:
2019-05-28
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - networks, campaigns, guides, resources, Tools for advocates and activists
Language:
English
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Description/subject:
"Extinction Rebellion were expected to have been removed from the streets of London well before Good Friday. But their peaceful protest completely wrong footed the authorities and they still held the same key areas on 19th April 2019. In the third of four video diaries I go out again for a progress update..."
Dave Borlace
Source/publisher:
Just Have a Think
Date of publication:
2019-04-21
Date of entry/update:
2019-05-28
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - networks, campaigns, guides, resources, Tools for advocates and activists
Language:
English
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