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"The timber trade has been one of the most important economic sectors in Myanmar?s economy for over a century. A sophisticated administration has developed to facilitate it. However the capacity to extract and export has overridden considerations for sustainability, for in-country value addition and even for domestic use.
Forests have been systematically over-logged for decades: Colonial and military governments have focussed on export-oriented timber exploitation and significantly exceeded estimated sustainable levels (the Annual Allowable Cut) for decades. This plunder reached a final crescendo in the felling season of 2013-2014 as it became clear the opportunities provided by the military era were ending.
Myanmar?s forests are now largely exhausted. There are very few commercially valuable trees remaining in accessible forest areas.
Illicit logging practices have been widespread: Specific details and evidence of how the shadowy system has precisely worked is not easy to come by, but the overall picture is clear. MTE needed sub-contractors because MTE did not have enough capacity itself for the level of extraction they wanted. In return for award of concessions they are said to have paid very large bribes to senior military and MTE staff. In conjunction with the MTE the timbers have been sold off at low prices to neighbouring countries. Windfall profits to subcontractors from ?mining? the forests, free grants of timber as patronage for loyalty and in return for substantial bribes and timber allocations ? all kept the dysfunctional system generating huge profits for those unethical enough to plunder the nation?s heritage.
There is a new mood of improved stringency to enforce harvesting regulations indicated by policy pronouncements, interviews and observation. But there is also lack of transparency and entrenched interests. Unaccounted illegal flows and malpractice evidently persist, although the extent is reduced.
Felling still continues but is ?scraping the barrel?: Today, the harvested volume as well as the sawing grade quality is far lower than in the 1980s, and preferred species have become very scarce. Many sawmills are idle or running below capacity.
The timber industry is in a difficult transition from exporting logs to further processing: The business model of ?mining? old growth forest resources has precipitated the current crisis and is no longer viable or legal.
Reforms are urgent An inter-related set of actions are urgently required to transform the forest sector from the current ?vicious cycle? of decline to a ?virtuous cycle? of regeneration through participatory management focused on the growing and marketing of timber trees. Such reforms are:..."
Source/publisher:
University of East Anglia; University of Copenhagen; EcoDev
Date of publication:
2016-02-29
Date of entry/update:
2018-05-04
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"New and rapid political and economic changes in Myanmar are increasing the pressures on the country?s forests. Yet, little is known about the past and current condition of these forests and how fast they are declining. We mapped forest cover in Myanmar through a consortium of international organizations and environmental non-governmental groups, using freely-available public domain data and open source software tools. We used Landsat satellite imagery to assess the condition and spatial distribution of Myanmar?s intact and degraded forests with special focus on changes in intact forest between 2002 and 2014. We found that forests cover 42,365,729 ha or 63% of Myanmar, making it one of the most forested countries in the region. However, severe logging, expanding plantations, and degradation pose increasing threats. Only 38% of the country?s forests can be considered intact with canopy cover >80%. Between 2002 and 2014, intact forests declined at a rate of 0.94% annually, totaling more than 2 million ha forest loss. Losses can be extremely high locally and we identified 9 townships as forest conversion hotspots. We also delineated 13 large (>100,000 ha) and contiguous intact forest landscapes, which are dispersed across Myanmar. The Northern Forest Complex supports four of these landscapes, totaling over 6.1 million ha of intact forest, followed by the Southern Forest Complex with three landscapes, comprising 1.5 million ha. These remaining contiguous forest landscape should have high priority for protection. Our project demonstrates how open source data and software can be used to develop and share critical information on forests when such data are not readily available elsewhere. We provide all data, code, and outputs freely via the internet at (for scripts: https://bitbucket.org/rsbiodiv/; for the data: http://geonode.themimu.info/layers/geonode%3Amyan_lvl2_smoothed_dec2015_resamp)"
Source/publisher:
PLoS ONE 12(5): e0176364
Date of publication:
2017-05-17
Date of entry/update:
2018-05-04
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About 649,000 results (May 2018)
"Dr. Htun Lwin or Tun Lwin is a Burmese meteorologist.[1] He holds a PhD in Physics and has worked in Burma?s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology since he was 17 years old in 1965 for 44 years until 2009 when he retired from his (then) position as Director General.[2]
Dr Tun Lwin is a well-known, active "netizen" in Myanmar who operates a free, non-profit online service called Myanmar Climate Change Watch (MCCW). Through various social media platforms such as Facebook and his website, he primarily gives weather and climate updates as well as some posts and updates about his own personal life and opinions.[3]
He has written numerous successful books on weather in Myanmar, works with local radio stations on weather-related segments and regularly writes articles on various topics not limited to just weather updates in Burmese magazines and newspaper journals. His book, The Girl Called La Niña and Articles about Natural Disasters, won the Science Knowledge Prize in the Thuta Swesone literary awards in 2007.[4]
He also gives presentations at talks and seminars relating to climate change frequently both locally and internationally, in cities and villages in rural areas.
On December 10?11, 2009, Lwin presented his 30-page paper at a seminar hosted by the International Centre for Water Hazard (ICHARM) in Tsukuba, Japan, stressing the importance of awareness of storms, tsunamis and flooding in delta regions and potential natural disaster preparedness strategies in the region.[5] In October 2010 he spoke to the Burmese media about the expected path of Cyclone Giri...." (Wikipedia)
Source/publisher:
www.via Google
Date of entry/update:
2018-05-01
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"Our oceans are rising. With human use of hydrocarbons skyrocketing, waters around the globe are getting hotter and, now, this warm sub-surface water is washing into Antarctica?s massive western glaciers causing the glaciers to retreat and break off. Antarctica holds 90% of the world?s ice and 70% of its freshwater, so if even a small fraction of the ice sheet in Antarctica melts, the resulting sea level rise will completely remap the world as we know it ? and it is already happening. In the last decade, some of the most significant glaciers here have tripled their melt rate.
VICE founder Shane Smith travels to the bottom of the world to investigate the instability of the West Antarctic ice sheet and to see first hand how the continent is melting -- and VICE follows the rising oceans to Bangladesh for a glimpse into the world?s underwater future. From the UN Climate conference to the People?s Climate March to the forces that deny the science of global climate change, this special extended episode covers all sides of the issue and all corners of the globe, ending with a special interview with Vice President Joe Biden.
Watch Season 4 of VICE on Fridays at 11 PM, only on HBO.
Watch Season 1: http://bit.ly/1HyVviK
Watch Season 2: http://bit.ly/1LBL8y6
More from Shane Smith: http://www.vice.com/author/shane-smith
Follow Shane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shanesmith30
If you, like us, want to help put the brakes on global warming, or just want to learn more about what you saw in tonight?s episode, check out these groups and get involved: Climate Central, Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies, Environmental Defense Fund, National Science Foundation, Ralph J. and Carol M. Cierone Endowed Chair and Fellowship Fund in Earth System Science, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation."
Source/publisher:
VICE on HBO via Youtube
Date of publication:
2016-01-11
Date of entry/update:
2018-04-29
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Climate Change science - Sea-level rise
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"Planet Ocean" is an international documentary directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot. It has won "Best Cinematography Award, Blue Ocean Festival", "Audience Award, UK Green Film Festival" and "Monterey Bay Film Festival".
Source/publisher:
Hope Productions
Date of publication:
2014-06-02
Date of entry/update:
2018-04-27
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Water security (global, regional)
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"PIK addresses crucial scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate impacts and sustainable development.
Researchers from the natural and social sciences work together to generate interdisciplinary insights and to provide society with sound information for decision making.
The main methodologies are systems and scenarios analysis, modelling,
computer simulation, and data integration."
Source/publisher:
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Date of entry/update:
2018-04-22
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: "Burma has a quasi-
parliamentary system of government in which the national
parliament selects the president and c
onstitutional provisions grant
one
-quarter of
parliamentary seats to active
duty military appointees.
The military also has the
authority to appoint the ministers of defense, home affairs, and border affairs and
one of two vice presidents,
as well as to
assume power over all branches of the
government should the president declare a national state of emergency. In 2015
the country held nationwide parliamentary elections that the public widely
accepted as a credible reflection of the will of the people. In
2016
parliament
selected
National League for Democracy (
NLD)
member Htin Kyaw as president
and created the position of S
tate
Counse
llor for NLD party leader Aung San Suu
Kyi,
formalizing
her position as the civilian government?
s de facto leader.
Under the constitution, civilian authorities
have
no authority over the security
forces;
armed forces
Commander
-in
-Chief
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
maintain
ed effective control over the security forces.
Ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya minority in Rakhine State occurred during
the year.
In early August some
security forces
deployed throughout northern
Rakhine State, committing enforced disappearances and arbitrary arrests and
displacing
villagers, the majority of whom were Rohingya
. On August 25, the
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) claimed responsibility for coordinated
attack
s against
30
security
outposts
in
northern
Rakhine State
, killing
12 security
personnel.
Augmented
security forces, as well as local
vigilante groups acti
ng
independently or in concert with security forces, then reportedly committed
widespread
atrocities
against Rohingya villagers, including extrajudicial
killings
,
disappearances,
rape, torture, arbitrary arrest, and burning of tens of thousands of
homes
an d some religious structures and other buildings
. Th
is displaced
more than
655,000 Rohingya
to
neighboring
Bangladesh
as of December
, as well as an
unknown number
within
Rakhine State
, and more than
20,000
villagers from other
ethnic groups, many
of whom were evacuated by the security forces.
In addition to the
atrocities
in Rakhine
State
, the most significant
human rights
issues
included:
arbitrary or unlawful
killings;
politically motivated arrests;
authorities?
hum
an rights violations against
civilians in other ethnic minority areas
and conflict zones, particularly in Kachin State and Shan State
; continued harsh
conditions in prisons and labor camps;
restrictions on freedom of speech,
BURMA
2
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017
United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
assembly, and association, including intimidation and arres
t of journalists;
restrictions on freedom of religion; continued
statelessness
for some populations
and severe restrictions on freedom of movement
; criminaliz
ation
of
same
-sex
sexual
activities, although the law was rarely enforced; and
trafficking in pers
ons,
including forced labor of adults and children.
Although
the government took some limited actions to prosecute or punish
officials responsible for abuses, the vast majority of such
abuses
continued with
impunity.
Some
nonstate
groups committed human rights abuses, including extrajudicial
killings,
forced labor of adults and children
, and failure
to protect civilians in
conflict zones"
Source/publisher:
[US] Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Date of publication:
2018-04-21
Date of entry/update:
2018-04-21
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Adopted by a recorded vote (32 to 5, with 10 abstentions), 55th meeting, 23 March 2018
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Council (A/HRC/37/L.43)
Date of publication:
2018-03-23
Date of entry/update:
2018-04-21
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"For the first time since Myanmar?s military crackdown last year that led to almost 700,000 Rohingya fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh, a government minister has visited a refugee camp.
Win Myat Aye, Myanmar?s social welfare minister, provoked anger when he reportedly told a group of about 40 Rohingya that if they were to return to Myanmar, they would have to accept national verification cards and state they were migrants from Bangladesh.
The refugees at the Kutupalong camp in the border city of Cox? Bazar say they are from Myanmar. They gave the minister a list of 13 demands they want to be met before they return home.
Bangladesh and Myanmar had agreed to begin the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees in January, but there were delays because of safety concerns.
So how will the government respond and how committed is it to resolving the crisis?"
Source/publisher:
Aljazeera (Inside Story)
Date of publication:
2018-04-12
Date of entry/update:
2018-04-13
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Abstract:
"Myanmar may for a long time remain in a transitional state with an uncertain future. After a series of political and economic liberalization reforms from 2011 onwards, Myanmar?s political trajectory remains open-ended, although the most plausible scenario remains a continued slow democratization process. The democratic opening has been driven largely by the interest of the military rulers in changing Myanmar?s relations with Western states and thereby gaining leverage vis-à-vis China. Continued military influence, persistent capacity problems in political parties and parliamentary politics, weak channels of political representation and limited administrative capacity give rise to critical questions about the substance of democratization and economic development in Myanmar. The country?s informal economy is one of the largest in the world and is upheld by informal elite pacts that were formed in the military era, often involving high-ranking officers and crony companies. Along with a high level of corruption and lack of redistributive mechanisms the continuing cronyism hinders inclusive growth. If these economic structures persist, social and ethnic conflicts may intensify and progress towards further democratization stall. Despite this, foreign direct investments in resource extraction and other sectors have been on the rise since 2011 and are likely to continue. Myanmar is also ranked as the world?s second-most vulnerable country to climate change. The government needs a better understanding of climate change and its effects ? both its direct impacts on Myanmar and its indirect impacts via neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh. As Myanmar remains at a crossroads, smart external assistance may have greater long-term impact in Myanmar than in other recipient countries where the situation is less volatile. However, donors may also become increasingly frustrated and reduce their assistance because of the ongoing Rohingya crisis and because of the limited local capacity to absorb international assistance."
Source/publisher:
Researchgate (Report commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Date of publication:
2018-01-31
Date of entry/update:
2018-04-06
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?Welcome to the companion website for
"The Age of Migration" 5th Edition
by Stephen Castles, Hein de Haas and Mark J. Miller...
On this website you?ll find detailed information about the book together with a range of extra learning resources:
Weblinks...
Additional case studies...
A web-only chapter...
Migration photos.....
Click on the links above to access the materials you?re looking for, or use the navigation panel to the left of the screen....?
Source/publisher:
Palgrave.com, Guilford.com
Date of publication:
2013-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2018-04-02
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"As we continue to discuss the developments since the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer, we turn to john a. powell, professor of law, African American studies and ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. ?The black community tends be overpoliced and underprotected,” powell says. ?That?s a very serious problem."
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now
Date of publication:
2014-08-19
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-29
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Executive Summary: "Incitement to violence that targets communities or
individuals based on their identity can contribute to
enabling or preparing atrocity crimes, (genocide, war
crimes and crimes against humanity), and is both a
warning sign and early indicator of the risk of those
crimes . Monitoring, preventing and countering incite-
ment to violence, particularly in societies divided along
identity lines and in situations where tensions are high,
can contribute to prevention efforts .
States have the primary responsibility to protect popu-
lations from atrocity crimes, as well as their incitement,
but other actors can and should play a role . Religious
leaders and actors can play a particularly influential role,
as they have the potential to influence the behaviour
of those who follow them and share their beliefs . Given
that religion has been misused to justify incitement to
violence, it is vital that religious leaders from all faiths
show leadership in this matter
.
The process that led to the development of the Plan
of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent
Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity
Crimes, known as the ?Fez Process”, stemmed from the
need to better understand, articulate and encourage
the potential of religious leaders to prevent incitement
and the violence that it can lead to, and to integrate
the work of religious leaders within broader efforts to
prevent atrocity crimes .
The ?Fez Process” refers to a series of consultations,
organised by the United Nations Office on Genocide
Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect between
April 2015 and December 2016, with religious leaders,
faith-based and secular organizations, regional organi-
zations and subject matter experts from all regions of
the world . The recommendations contained in the Plan
of Action were developed by the religious leaders and
actors who participated in these consultations . They are
relevant not only to situations where there is a risk of
atrocity crimes, but also to other contexts, including
the protection of human rights, the prevention of vio-
lent extremism and the prevention of conflict .
As efforts to prevent atrocity crimes and their incite-
ment are most likely to succeed when different actors
are working in collaboration, the Plan of Action also
includes recommendations for other actors, including
States and state institutions and civil society, includ-
ing new and traditional media . The Plan of Action is
founded on human rights principles, in particular the
right to freedom of expression and opinion, freedom of
religion and belief and the right of peaceful assembly
.
The Plan of Action contains three main clusters of
recommendations that aim to
prevent
,
strengthen
and
build
. Each cluster includes recommendations that are
organised according to thematic focus .
It is recommended that, under the stewardship of the
United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the
Responsibility to Protect, this Plan of Action is imple-
mented at regional, national and local levels . For a com-
prehensive implementation of the Plan of Action, it is
recommended that all relevant stakeholders contribute,
including state and religious institutions, secular and
religious civil society organizations, new and traditional
media, academia and education institutions, as well as
regional and international organizations .
Implementing this Plan of Action could contribute to
the prevention of atrocity crimes worldwide, especially
in areas affected by religious and sectarian tensions
and violence . Its implementation will also enhance the
respect, protection and promotion of human rights."
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of publication:
2017-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-24
Type:
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Category:
Genocide, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Inter-Communal violence and discrimination - global
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SPEAKERS:
Ireland, Ms. Sarah Carney 00:05:54
Lao People?s Democratic Republic, Mr. Kham-Inh Khitchadeth 00:07:42
Belarus, Ms. Inna Vasilevskaya 00:09:21
Iceland, Mr. Harald Aspelund 00:10:18
Slovakia, Mr. Juraj Podhorský 00:11:57
OIC, Mr. Mostafa Alaei 00:13:39
Republic of Korea, Mr. Jung Jin Ho 00:15:56
Libya, Mr. Salim Abaiss 00:18:02
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Mr. Kyaw Win 00:19:47
Human Rights Watch, Mr. John Fisher 00:21:54
Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Ms. Claire Denman 00:24:09
Amnesty International, Ms. Hilary Power 00:26:21
Plan International, Ms. Anya Gass 00:28:28
International Federation for Human Rights Leagues, Ms. Manon Karatas 00:30:36
International Commission of Jurists, Mr. Ilya Sobol 00:32:47
Presse Embleme Campagne, Ms. Ana Lurinda 00:34:32
Article 19 - International Centre Against Censorship, Mr. Andrew Smith 00:36:23
Asian Legal Resource Centre, Mr. Md. Asharfuzzaman 00:38:34
Human Rights Now, Ms. Katherine Walton 00:40:45
Maarij Foundation, Mr. Abdul Gadir Elkhalil 00:42:54
International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Ms. Lisa-Marlen Gronemeier 00:45:23
Child Foundation, Mr. Peyman Raoofi...International Educational Development, Ms. Karen Parker 00:49:53
Ms. Yanghee Lee, Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar (Final Remarks) 00:51:23
Mr. Marzuki Darusman, Chairperson of the Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (Final Remarks) 00:57:46
Mr. Christopher Dominic Sidoti, Member of the Independent, International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (Final Remarks)
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Council (webcast)
Date of publication:
2018-03-12
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-14
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SPEAKERS:
Ms. Yanghee Lee, Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar (Introductions) 00:02:52
Mr. Marzuki Darusman, Chairperson of the fact-finding mission on Myanmar (Introductions) 00:16:38
Myanmar (Concerned country), Mr. Htin Lynn 00:32:58
European Union, Mr. Carl Hallergard 00:38:45
Philippines (on behalf of ASEAN), Ms. Maria Teresa T. Almojuela 00:40:54
Liechtenstein, Mr. Peter Matt 00:43:15
Germany, Ms. Susanne Fries-Gaier 00:45:25
Finland, Mr. Renne Klinge 00:47:22
Russian Federation, Mr. Evgueni Ustinov 00:49:13
Norway, Mr. Herborg Fiskaa Alvsåker 00:49:54
Croatia, Ms. Vesna Batistic Kos 00:51:42
Estonia, Mr. Andre Pung 00:53:38
Denmark, Ms. Lone Thorup 00:55:31
Belgium, Mr. Geert Muylle 00:57:29
Canada, Ms. Kaitlyn Pritchard 00:59:37
Spain, Mr. Emilio Pin 01:01:44
Switzerland, Ms. Laura Aubry 01:03:47
Czech Republic, Mr. Jirí Luhan 01:05:46
Japan, Ms. Mitsuko Shino 01:08:05
Viet Nam, Mr. Duong Chi Dung 01:10:09
Poland, Ms. Agnieszka Karpinska 01:11:39
Australia, Mr. Lachlan McCleve Strahan 01:13:29
France, Ms. Elisabeth Laurin 01:15:16
China, Ms. Song Danhui 01:17:18
Qatar, Ms. Maha Mohamed Al-Moadhadi 01:19:12
Sweden, Ms. Veronika Bard 01:21:13
Greece, Mr. Michail Manousakis 01:23:14
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Mr. Manuel Enrique García Andueza 01:25:30
Mr. Marzuki Darusman, Chairperson of the fact-finding mission on Myanmar (Comments and Answers) 01:38:23
Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Member of the Independent, International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (Comments and Answers) 01:47:03
Mr. Christopher Dominic Sidoti, Member of the Independent, International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (Comments and Answers) 01:49:41
Iraq, Ms. Alyaa Ihsan Abbood Alsayegh 01:51:37
Mexico, Mr. Diego Ruiz Gayol 01:53:27
United States of America, Ms. Erin Barklay 01:55:44
Maldives, Mr. Amin Javed Faizal 01:58:00
Iran (Islamic Republic of), Mr. Omid Ashgari Osboei 02:00:00
Lithuania, Mr. Andrius Krivas 02:01:12
Democratic People?s Republic of Korea, Mr. Mun Jong Chol 02:03:22
New Zealand, Ms. Jillian Dempster 02:04:20
Thailand, Mr. Sek Wannamethee 02:06:36
Indonesia, Mr. Hasan Kleib 02:08:32
Netherlands, Ms. Nathalie Yvonne Olijslager Jaarsma 02:10:49
Algeria, Mr. Antar Hassani 02:12:57
Luxembourg, Ms. Anne Goedert 02:
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Council (webcast)
Date of publication:
2018-03-12
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-14
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Dry Season Dread: "As the horrors of the Myanmar[1] Army?s campaigns of atrocities in Rakhine State are condemned by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, dry season military offensives against ethnic Kachin, Karen, and Ta?ang minorities, demonstrate how this violence is both nationwide and systematic...."...STATEMENTS AND PRESS RELEASES:
Myanmar: Forced Starvation of Rohingya Highlights Danger of Premature Returns
By Amnesty International...
New Report from APHR: Summary of Findings from Mission to Bangladesh Covering the Rohingya Crisis
By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights...
The Rohingya Crisis: Past, Present, and Future
By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights...
Justice and Protection for Rohingya Women and Girls ? in Support of Call for Unilever to Disinvest from Myanmar
By Black Women?s Rape Action Project and Women Against Rape...
Burma: Withdraw Proposed Changes to Assembly Law
By Human Rights Watch...
Press Release: Historic New ?End Genocide Bill” Introduced in Maryland General Assembly
By International Campaign for the Rohingya...
ISCG Statement On International Women?s Day Time is Now: We are all Responsible for Transforming Women?s and girls? lives
By Inter Sector Coordination Group...
Press Release by Karenni National Progressive Party
By Karenni National Progressive Party...
ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
By Karenni National Progressive Party...
Burma/Myanmar Military Aggression Violates the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement and Endangers Villagers in Mutraw District, Karen State
By Karen Peace Support Network...
ကရင်ပြည်နယ် မူတရောခရိုင်အတွင်း ဗမာ(မြန်မာ)တပ်မတော်၏ ကျူးကျော်တိုက်ခိုက်မှုသည် တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးပတ်ခတ်တိုက်မှုရပ်စဲရေး သဘောတူညီမှုစာချုပ်ကို ချိုးဖောက်ခြင်း နှင့် ရွာသားများအား ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ဖြစ်စေခြင်း
By Karen Peace Support Network...
Myanmar: Senior UN Human Rights Official Decries Continued Ethnic Cleansing in Rakhine State
By Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Statement by Talong Villager, northern Shan State
By Talong Villagers, northern Shan State...
တာလုံရွာသူရွာသားများ၏ သဘောထားထုတ်ပြန်ကြောဌာချက်
By Talong Villagers, northern Stan State...
UNHCR Appeals for Protection of Rohingya Currently Trapped on Myanmar-Bangladesh Border
By United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra?ad Al Hussein
By UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra?ad Al Hussein...
Women?s League of Burma: Statement on International Women?s Day ?Press for Progress”
By Women?s League of Burma...
အမျိုးသမီးများအဖွဲ့ချုပ် (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ) မှ နိုင်ငံတကာအမျိုးသမီးများနေ့အထိမ်းအမှတ် အတွက် ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်
By Women?s League of Burma...
Karen Women?s Organization Statement on International Women?s Day (2018)
By Karen Women?s Organization...
ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာ စုဝေးခြင်းနှင့် စီတန်းလှည့်လည်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့် ဥပဒေကြမ်းအပေါ် အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၏ သဘောထားထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
By 230 Myanmar Civil Society Organizations and 25 Individuals.....REPORTS: ?No one was left”: Death and Violence Against the Rohingya in Rakhine State, Myanmar
By Doctors Without Borders...
Activism & Agency: The Female Experience of Political Imprisonment
By The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners...
နိုင်ငံရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှုများနှင့်၎င်းတို့ပါဝင်ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့မှုများ။ ။ အမျိုးသမီးနိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသူများ၏ အကျဉ်းကျခံရစဉ်ကတွေ့ကြုံခံစားခဲ့ရမှုများ
By The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners...
Briefing Paper: The UNFC?s Continuing Role to Seek the Federal Union
By United Nationalities Federal Council (Union of Burma).....RELATED POSTS:
Special Rapporteur Outlines Myanmar?s Decades-Long Institutionalized Violations Against Myanmar?s Ethnic Minorities...
End of Mission Statement by Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar...
Broken Trust Underpins Stalled Peace Process...
Achieving Justice for Gross Human Rights Violations in Myanmar...
Summary of Situation Update for December 2017.
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2018-03-14
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GENEVA (12 March 2018) - The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the situation of human rights in Myanmar...
Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, presenting her report, said that the Government of Myanmar had refused to further cooperate with her mandate and to allow her access to the country. There were now and dplomats more Rohingya people outside Myanmar than within. Ethnic minority groups in other areas of the country, such as Kachin, Shan and Kayin, were much like the Rohingya, victims of the military campaign. While Myanmar said it had constructed facilities to receive verified returnees from Bangladesh, there appeared to be a policy of forced starvation in place, designed to make life in northern Rakhine unsustainable. Considering that crimes against humanity had been occurring since 2016, Ms. Lee recommended a comprehensive review of actions by the United Nations system regarding the implementation of its humanitarian and protection mandates.
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UN News service
Date of publication:
2018-03-12
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2018-03-14
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"GENEVA (12 March 2018) ? Experts of the UN Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar called on Myanmar authorities Monday to stop dismissing reports that serious human rights violations have been committed in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine states.
?The body of information and materials we are collecting is concrete and overwhelming,” the three experts of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar noted in their interim, oral report to the 37th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.
?It points at human rights violations of the most serious kind, in all likelihood amounting to crimes under international law.”
Marzuki Darusman, former Indonesian Attorney-General and chair of the Fact-Finding Mission, delivered the oral report. He was joined on the podium by fellow experts Radhika Coomaraswamy of Sri Lanka and Chris Sidoti of Australia.
The interim report was based on information gathered from a series of missions to Bangladesh, Malaysia and Thailand, where teams of investigators conducted over 600 in-depth interviews with victims and witnesses of reported human rights violations and abuses. The teams have also collected and analysed satellite imagery, photographs and video footage of events..."
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UN News service
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2018-03-12
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2018-03-14
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"Six months after the start of a brutal military campaign which forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya women, men and children from their homes and left hundreds of Rohingya villages burned the ground, Myanmar?s authorities are remaking northern Rakhine State in their absence. Based on in-depth analysis of satellite imagery; a review of recent photographs and videos showing destruction in specific Rohingya villages; and interviews with Rohingya in northern Rakhine State and across the border in Bangladesh, as well as with activists and other experts, this briefing sheds light on the ongoing efforts to rebuild and reshape northern Rakhine State.Through eyewitness testimony and expert analysis of satellite images, Remaking Rakhine State reveals how flattening of Rohingya villages and new construction have intensified since January in areas where hundreds of thousands fled the military?s campaign of ethnic cleansing last year. New roads and structures are being built over burned Rohingya villages and land, making it even less likely for refugees to return to their homes...
?What we are seeing in Rakhine State is a land grab by the military on a dramatic scale. New bases are being erected to house the very same security forces that have committed crimes against humanity against Rohingya,” said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International?s Crisis Response Director.
?This makes the voluntary, safe and dignified return of Rohingya refugees an even more distant prospect. Not only are their homes gone, but the new construction is entrenching the already dehumanizing discrimination they have faced in Myanmar...”
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Amnesty International (ASA 16/8018/2018 )
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2018-03-12
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2018-03-13
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Myanmar clearing Rohingya villages to make way for construction of military installations, rights group says...Security forces have bulldozed houses and started constructing at least three new security facilities in Myanmar?s western Rakhine state, said Amnesty International?s Remaking Rakhine State report, which was published on Monday.
The report, which said construction of the three army outposts began in January, is based on satellite imagery and witness statements from Rohingya refugees.
"What we are seeing in Rakhine state is a land grab by the military on a dramatic scale. New bases are being erected to house the very same security forces that have committed crimes against humanity against Rohingya," Tirana Hassan, Amnesty?s crisis response director, said..."
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Aljazeera
Date of publication:
2018-03-13
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2018-03-13
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(Advance unedited version)..."The present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution
34/24,
covers developments in Myanmar since the previous reports of the Special Rapporteur on
the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, to the Human Rights Council in
March 2017 (A/HRC/34/67)
and
oral
progress report in June 2017;
and
to the
General
Assembly in October 2017 (A/72/382)......Conclusion:
"Accountability must be the focus of the international community?s efforts to
bring long-lasting
peace,
stability and democratization to Myanmar. This must be
aimed at the
individuals who gave the orders and carried out
violations
against
individuals and entire
ethnic
and religious
groups. The government leadership who
did nothing to intervene, stop,
or condemn these acts
must
also
be held accountable.
To date, accountability for the crimes committed following 25 August 2017, and
9 October 2016, is
elusive.
A
repeat of violence in Rakhine
State
was foreseeable and,
as such, possibly preventable. As more
information about the post
-
25 August 2017
violence becomes available and following the Special Rapporteur?s mission to
Bangladesh, she is increasingly of the opinion that the events
bear the hallmarks of
genocide and therefore
calls in the strongest terms
for accountability.
The Special Rapporteur
calls
for
a
thorough
, impartial and credible
investigation
to be
conducted without delay
and perpetrators to be held responsible
for
the
alleged
crimes that were
committed
in Rakhine State
since 9 October 2016 and
25 August 2017
,
and the violations that continue today
.
To do so, it is imperative to
establish
a documentation structure to collect
, map
and preserve evidence
of human
rights violations and abuses
,
and testimony from
refugees
in Cox?s Bazar..."
This substantial report contains 3 annexes including a set of 90 questions to the Government of Myanmar.
Source/publisher:
United Nations (A/HRC/37/70)
Date of publication:
2018-03-09
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2018-03-10
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"Thousands of Rohingya girls continue to face sexual exploitation, forced marriage and trafficking in refugee camps.hey have survived rape and the slaughter of their families. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya girls and women fled Myanmar to escape a military crackdown...
In Bangladesh?s refugee camps they thought they would be safe. But inside the tents that house almost a million Rohingya refugees, women and girls are being bought, sold and given away.
Girls are being forced into marriage because relatives can?t afford to feed them, or are being lured to brothels with the promise of good jobs. We investigate the dangers still facing Rohingya women and meet the people seeking to exploit them" ...Rohingya, Bangladesh, Sexual assault, Asia, Myanmar
Source/publisher:
Aljazeera (101 East)
Date of publication:
2018-03-08
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-09
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Trafficking: Burma-specific material, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Discrimination against the Rohingya
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Executive summary:
"• Failure to move away from fossil fuels, especially coal, may damage the international reputation of the ASEAN countries. Counter to the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) which the ASEAN countries themselves have formulated under the Paris Agreement, the region?s coal-based electricity generation capacity has been expanding rapidly. This may also lead to a large number of stranded coal assets in the future.
• All the ASEAN member states have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and signed the Paris Agreement, and nine out of ten have also ratified the Paris Agreement. At least half of the ASEAN member states reacted publicly to President Donald Trump?s announcement that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, criticizing it and/or reiterating their own country?s commitment to climate action. ASEAN has identified climate change as a priority issue since the 2007 ASEAN Summit in Singapore. This declared commitment of ASEAN and its member states to international climate policy can provide a good foundation for joint regional climate policy formulation and action.
• However, despite their positive stances on climate change, most ASEAN countries have not taken on prominent roles in international climate policy. As a result, they remain takers rather than makers in international climate politics. ASEAN as an organization stands to gain or lose status by following up or not following up its member states on climate issues, and by member states succeeding or failing to meet their NDCs. The ASEAN Secretariat can fulfill an important function by promoting a team spirit around this status drive.
• ASEAN could formulate a regionally determined contribution (RDC) for ASEAN by adding up the nationally determined contributions of the ASEAN member states. This could help create a team spirit related to the NDCs, as well as possible peer review/pressure.
• ASEAN could implement several other concrete measures to energize its work on climate change: maintain a focus on the NDCs of its member states under the Paris Agreement; ensure that current and future initiatives under the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) are ambitious and detailed as to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; highlight the vulnerability of Southeast Asia to climate change by publishing and sharing relevant analysis; advocate improved disclosure and reporting of the financial risks of climate change to governments and investors; put climate change high on the agenda of every ASEAN summit; involve and connect relevant civil society and academic organizations across Southeast Asia; facilitate regional electricity trade through the expansion of the ASEAN Power Grid for better handling of the intermittency of renewable energy; promote the accelerated phase- out of fossil-fuel subsidies—which is also a prerequisite for developing trans-border electricity trade in Southeast Asia.
• To be successful, climate-related initiatives will need to consider the ASEAN way of conducting business, with its emphasis on national sovereignty, non-interference and consensus in decision-making. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has set an example of common but differentiated capabilities and responsibilities, further developed with the Paris Agreement?s concept of nationally determined contributions, which are precisely that—nationally determined. This approach is highly compatible with the traditional ASEAN approach to interstate cooperation.
• ASEAN may be experiencing a problem of collective action on international climate policy: the member states are looking to ASEAN to adopt a stronger role, whereas the ASEAN Secretariat looks to the member states to take the lead and give clear signals. A first step towards solving this conundrum could be for the ASEAN Secretariat to further expand and strengthen its climate policy staffing—which will require funding and capacity enhancement."
Source/publisher:
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies
Date of publication:
2017-11-06
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-09
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Policies, Policies and projects, General articles and reports on regional and global dynamics, Bangladesh-Burma relations, Policies
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"A plan to repatriate Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh back to Myanmar is scheduled to begin on January 23, 2018. This film, based on interviews conducted with Rohingya refugees and others in Bangladesh, highlights concerns with the plans..."
Source/publisher:
Fortify Rights
Date of publication:
2018-01-22
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2018-03-03
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"We are a public-private Union enterprise with three main goals: providing humanitarian assistance, carrying out resettlement and rehabilitation and working for development in Rakhine State. State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi acts as Chairperson and Dr. Win Myat Aye the Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement acts as Vice Chairman. This Union Enterprise brings together the experience and expertise of the public and private sectors and will be funded by public funds and generous donations from UN agencies, friendly countries, international and regional financial institutions as well as by donors inside the country and those who are living abroad all over the world..."...About 38,000 results for a Google search for UEHRD Myanmar (March 2018)
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UEHRD
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-02
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Will a visit by Nobel laureates help Rohingya Muslims?..."Myanmar?s leader has been widely criticised for turning a deaf ear to global condemnation of her response to the Rohingya crisis. Now Aung San Suu Kyi faces a new warning from three women - who like her - are Nobel Peace Prize winners.
"Wake up or face prosecution for genocide" is their message. Irish peace campaigner Mairead Maguire, Tawakkol Karman from Yemen, and Iranian Shirin Ebadi are in Bangladesh.
They are touring Rohingya refugee camps to assess their needs, particularly women who says soldiers from Myanmar raped and tortured them.
But how does the visit help the Muslim minority? And is it embarrassing for Myanmar?s own Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi?
Myanmar?s leader has been widely criticised for turning a deaf ear to global condemnation of her response to the Rohingya crisis. Now Aung San Suu Kyi faces a new warning from three women - who like her - are Nobel Peace Prize winners.
"Wake up or face prosecution for genocide" is their message. Irish peace campaigner Mairead Maguire, Tawakkol Karman from Yemen, and Iranian Shirin Ebadi are in Bangladesh.
They are touring Rohingya refugee camps to assess their needs, particularly women who says soldiers from Myanmar raped and tortured them.
But how does the visit help the Muslim minority? And is it embarrassing for Myanmar?s own Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi?"...Rohingya, Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, Asia Pacific, Bangladesh
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Al Jazeera (Inside Story)
Date of publication:
2018-02-26
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2018-02-28
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"Do you remember being a child, wide awake at night, breath drawn, every creak and whisper of breeze a monster under the bed, an intruder down the hall? Then as day breaks, childish fear evaporates and the night?s terrors are forgotten.
For hundreds of thousands of children who are right now living in the sprawling refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, fear does not fade when the sun rises. The nights are long. And each day brings a new worry.
Today marks six months since these children were ripped away from the stability of their homes. Six months of trying to make sense of the horrors they have seen and this strange and often scary place.
In the words of a 12-year-old boy: "We live a captive life here. There is not enough space for us to play. We cannot do anything we want to do..."
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Aljazeera
Date of publication:
2018-02-25
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2018-02-26
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About 5,330,000 results (February 2018) Collection of medittions, interviews etc. featuring Thich Nhat Hanh
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Youtube
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2018-02-24
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"Bangladesh is racing to turn an uninhabited and muddy Bay of Bengal island into home for 100,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar, amid conflicting signals from top Bangladeshi officials about whether the refugees would end up being stranded there..."
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Reuters via "The Irrawaddy"
Date of publication:
2018-02-22
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2018-02-23
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"The human rights situation deteriorated dramatically. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled crimes against humanity in Rakhine State to neighbouring Bangladesh; those who remained continued to live under a system amounting to apartheid. The army committed extensive violations of international humanitarian law. Authorities continued to restrict humanitarian access across the country. Restrictions on freedom of expression remained. There was increased religious intolerance and anti-Muslim sentiment. Impunity persisted for past and ongoing human rights violations..."
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Amnesty International
Date of publication:
2018-02-22
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2018-02-22
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"Sister Chan Khong, the eldest monastic in the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhists, and Thay?s long-time collaborator, has written an open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, to ask for compassionate action to prevent the violent oppression of Rohingya muslims in her country."
Source/publisher:
Plum Village
Date of publication:
2017-02-16
Date of entry/update:
2018-02-22
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Buddhism and society, Buddhist Ethics
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Buddhists show support of Rohingyas
Buddhist leaders from around the world issued a statement that urged Buddhists in Burma to show compassion and respect to the Muslims in Rakhine State. Many Buddhists in that state have been complicit in holding demonstrations and acting violently toward the Rohingya Muslims.
"We are concerned about the growing ethnic violence and the targeting of Muslims in Rakhine State and the violence against Muslims and others across the country," the statement said. "The Burmese are a noble people, and Burmese Buddhists carry a long and profound history of upholding the Dharma. We wish to reaffirm to the world and to support you in practicing the most fundamental Buddhist principles of non-harming, mutual respect and compassion." "
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Burma Taskforce
Date of publication:
2016-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2018-02-22
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About 219,000 results (February 2018)
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Google
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2018-02-22
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"This is a wonderful lecture by Edward Said on Samuel Huntington?s idea about ?Clash of civilizations”. In this lecture Edward Said analyses in detail the arguments of Samuel Huntington in his paper on Clash of civilizations (with a question mark) that ultimately became his book (this time without a question mark!). Edward Said incisively analyzes Huntington?s notion that differences in culture between the ?West? and ?Islam? will lead to conflicts between the two civilizations. Arguing against monolithic understanding of cultures, Said makes a powerful case for multiculturalism.
Edward Said is one of the most powerful speakers I have listened to off-late, and this dense lecture is worth every minute of it. The talk is approximately 40 minutes and is followed by questions."
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Youtube
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1997-11-30
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2018-02-20
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"How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village...
On Sept. 2, Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men in Myanmar?s restive Rakhine state. Reuters uncovered the massacre and has pieced together how it unfolded. During the reporting of this article, two Reuters journalists were arrested by Myanmar police.NN DIN, Myanmar ? Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a shallow grave. Soon afterwards, on the morning of Sept. 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were hacked to death by Buddhist villagers. The rest were shot by Myanmar troops, two of the gravediggers said.
?One grave for 10 people,” said Soe Chay, 55, a retired soldier from Inn Din?s Rakhine Buddhist community who said he helped dig the pit and saw the killings. The soldiers shot each man two or three times, he said. ?When they were being buried, some were still making noises. Others were already dead.”
The killings in the coastal village of Inn Din marked another bloody episode in the ethnic violence sweeping northern Rakhine state, on Myanmar?s western fringe. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August. None of Inn Din?s 6,000 Rohingya remained in the village as of October..."
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Reuters
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2018-02-08
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2018-02-15
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"LAST WEEK?S explosive Reuters investigation into the killings of 10 Rohingya at Inn Din in northern Rakhine State in September made for grim reading.
In what is one of the best, most detailed reports on the crisis, the Reuters team ? including journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo who were arrested in December while researching the story and remain in jail ? documented how government troops and Buddhist villagers carried out the killings and buried the victims in a single grave.
Few who have seen it will forget the haunting photograph of the kneeling men surrounded by security forces shortly before their death. In this case, the ?picture tells a thousand words” cliché rang true. But the text was just as powerful; a 4,500-word indictment of the authorities? brazen denials that its forces have been responsible for systematic human rights abuses.
Of course, the military has already admitted that its forces, together with Buddhist villagers, killed the 10 men. It did this to pre-empt the release of the Reuters report, and after its own investigation had claimed that no such killings took place...".....This editorial appears in the February 15 edition of Frontier. Tags:
Rakhine State Inn Din Rohingya Tatmadaw refugees
Source/publisher:
"Frontier Myanmar" This editorial appears in the February 15 edition of Frontier.
Date of publication:
2018-02-14
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2018-02-15
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About "Progressive Voice":
"Progressive Voice envisions a federal democratic Myanmar that is free of discrimination and upholds the principles of peace, justice, self-determination and human rights.
Mission
Our mission is to amplify the voices from the ground for a principled, rights-based policy narrative on Myanmar at a local, national and international level through cooperative, collaborative, and participatory research, analysis and advocacy.
Who We Are
Progressive Voice is a participatory rights-based policy research and advocacy organization rooted in civil society, that maintains strong networks and relationships with grassroots organizations and community-based organizations throughout Myanmar. It acts as a bridge to the international community and international policymakers by amplifying voices from the ground, and advocating for a rights-based policy narrative..."
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"Progressive Voice"
Date of entry/update:
2018-02-13
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"Rohingya refugees are still not allowed to return to Myanmar, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees has told the UN Security Council.
According to Filippo Grandi, "conditions in Myanmar are not yet conducive" for the 668,000 Rohingya to return home.
The refugees fled to neighbouring Bangladesh after the Myanmar authorities launched a violent crackdown in northern Rakhine state last August.
"The causes of their flight have not been addressed, and we have yet to see substantive progress on addressing the exclusion and denial of rights that has deepened over the last decades, rooted in their lack of citizenship," he said.
Grandi also said the office of the UNHCR lacks access to Rakhine, where hundreds of villages have been burned down by the Myanmar military.
"Humanitarian access, as you have heard, remains extremely restricted. UNHCR has not had access to affected areas of the northern part of Rakhine state, beyond Maungdaw town, since August 2017, and our access in central Rakhine has also been curtailed," he said.
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"UNHCR presence and access throughout the state are essential to monitor protection conditions, provide independent information to refugees, and accompany returns as and when they take place."..."
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Aljazeera
Date of publication:
2018-02-13
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2018-02-13
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"Road projects proposed as part of the One Belt One Road Initiative (BRI) in Myanmar would provide transport infrastructure to areas of the Ayeyarwady River Basin and surrounding mountain areas — home to approximately 25 million people. These people rely on natural capital—including forests, rivers, land, and biodiversity—for a range of benefits, including clean drinking water and protection from natural disasters.
There is a risk that the benefits of BRI road projects could be undermined by substantial social, environmental and economic costs if roads are constructed in ways that fragment ecosystems, endanger wildlife, or contribute to deforestation, landslides, flooding and pollution.
Through better road planning and design, there is a great opportunity for the benefits of the BRI to become much more far-reaching."
Source/publisher:
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Date of publication:
2017-12-17
Date of entry/update:
2018-02-13
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"Chinese highways could put forests at risk and break international law, say environmental groups...Up to half of Myanmar?s population live in areas that could suffer environmental damage from two giant highways unless the ecological risks are considered, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund. The planned roads will form part of China?s continent-crossing network of overseas infrastructure known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
?We?ve estimated about 24 million people could be affected by this infrastructure project ? and negatively affected if it is not carried out in a way where you are taking into account the potential impacts on areas that help provide clean water, protection against floods, landslides, and so on,” report author Hanna Helsingen told chinadialogue.
Environmentalists and lawyers have voiced fears that Myanmar?s fledgling environmental protection laws, which date from 2015, are insufficiently robust, transparent or enforced to prevent adverse impacts on forest cover, water management and people?s livelihoods..."
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Chinadialogue
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2017-02-12
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2018-02-13
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