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Posts Tagged ‘ASEAN’
Asean Presses Myanmar to Allow Its Observers at 2010 Election
Southeast Asian nations offered to send observers to the first election in two decades in Myanmar, whose military rulers have come under fire in the U.S. for excluding detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi [...]
| |ASEAN urges Myanmar to hold free, fair election
Southeast Asian foreign ministers gave Myanmar’s military-run government an “earful” while demanding that it hold free and fair elections — a rare stand by the cautious group often accused of overlooking rights abuses in member nations[...]
| |Myanmar elections will test ASEAN’s credibility
Southeast Asian nations should press the Myanmar government to protect the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association throughout the elections period and beyond, Amnesty International said today on the eve of the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Ha Noi [...]
| |Burma’s Democracy Leaders Hold Parliamentary Hearings in Kuala Lumpur; Malaysian MPs Support Call for National Reconciliation
Representatives of the Ten Alliances of Burma’s democracy and ethnic rights movement held hearings in both the Lower and Upper houses of Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 7 and 8 July, respectively. Based on the undemocratic flaws in the 2008 Constitution and the military regime’s unjust election laws, the delegation called for the government of Malaysia to denounce this year’s elections unless the military regime changes course [...]
| |Filipino activists urge Aquino to take action on Burma
Activists from the Free Burma Coalition Philippines have called for stronger policies and more concrete action on democratisation in Burma from the new Aquino administration, which was sworn in yesterday [...]
| |Week 12: 2010 Election Watch (25-31 May)
Developments
- Two new political parties filed registration papers to participate in the upcoming elections. To date, a total of 42 parties – 37 new parties and five existing parties – have filed registration applications. | |
Worldwide Protests Call for Real Elections in Burma
In a coordinated Global Day of Action, Burmese communities and their supporters in more than 20 countries around the world held “People’s Elections” and demonstrations against the military’s elections [...]
| |Lawmakers Urged to Boycott Results Of Upcoming Polls in Junta-Led Burma
Burmese pro-democracy activists have called on Indonesian human rights organizations and the House of Representatives to denounce this year’s elections in the military-run state.[...]
| |Aquino urged to lead ASEAN push for Burma’s democracy
Filipino activists called on presumptive president-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to take the cudgels for Burmese democratization among leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in keeping with the legacy of his mother. [...]
| |Burma Campaigners Demand Leadership from ASEAN
Asia Calling met with Khin Ohmar, the Coordinator of the Burma Partnership and began by asking her just what ASEAN can do to promote free and fair elections in Burma [...]
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