Aung San Suu Kyi freed, but Burma taken hostage by the generals

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-Burma), and the Burma Lawyers’ Council are pleased to see Daw Aung San Suu Kyi regain her freedom on 13 November after spending 15 of the last 21 years in detention in Burma [...]

December 5, 2010 | Tags: Altsean-Burma, Burma Lawyers Council, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Release, International Federation for Human Rights, National Reconciliation, Political Prisoners | Read more >>

Accountability for serious crimes essential to sustainable peace and national reconciliation in Burma

Ahead of the general elections on November 7 in Burma, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Burma Lawyers’ Council (BLC) are publishing the main interventions of their joint seminar held in Bangkok in May 2009, where leading exiled Burmese organisations, international and regional human rights NGOs, as well as renown international legal experts gathered to discuss the possibility of prosecuting the leaders of the military junta for the systematic and gross human rights violations perpetrated in Burma [...]

October 18, 2010 | Tags: Burma Lawyers Council, Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights, International Federation for Human Rights | Read more >>

An Analysis of the Elections in Burma in 2010 and the Following Period

For the past fifty years, military dictators have ruled Burma destroying the economy, abolishing rule of law, and perpetuating thousands of human rights violations against its own population. The military regime known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) regularly enlists child soldiers, uses sexual violence against the civilian population, has forcibly displaced and [...]

March 7, 2010 | Tags: Burma Lawyers Council, Election Laws | Read more >>

နအဖစစ္အစိုးရ က်င္းပေပးမည္ဆုိသည္႔ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြသည္ မက်င္းပမီကပင္ လြပ္လပ္မႈ၊ တရားမွ်တမႈမရွိေၾကာင္းကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေရွ႕ေနမ်ားေကာင္စီမွ သုံးသပ္ထုပ္ျပန္ခ်က္

နအဖစစ္အစိုးရ က်င္းပေပးမည္ဆုိသည္႔ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြသည္ မက်င္းပမီကပင္ လြပ္လပ္မႈ၊ တရားမွ်တမႈမရွိေၾကာင္းကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေရွ႕ေနမ်ားေကာင္စီမွ သုံးသပ္ထုပ္ျပန္ခ်က္ စာတမ္းတေစာင္ ထုပ္ျပန္လုိက္ပါသည္။ ထုိထုပ္ျပန္ခ်က္တြင္ အမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံ၊ ဖဲြ႔စည္းအုပ္ခ်ဴပ္ပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ (မူၾကမ္း) ႏွင့္ လူထုဆႏၵခံယူပဲြတုိ႔အေပၚ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေရွ႕ေနမ်ားေကာင္စီ၏ အျမင္သေဘားထား၊ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ဆက္လ်ဥ္း၍ နအဖစစ္အစိုးရ၏ သေဘာထား၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြဥပေဒႏွင္း စပ္လ်ဥ္း ၍ နအဖ ဝန္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္၏ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္၊ လြပ္လပ္၍ တရားမွ်တေသာ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ တရပ္ က်င္းပႏိုင္ရန္ လုိအပ္သည္႔ ဥပေဒအေျခခံလုပ္ထုံးလုပ္နည္းမ်ား၊ နအဖ စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ လက္ေအာက္ခံ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ လႈပ္ရွားေဆာင္ရြက္ေနမႈမ်ား အစရွိသည့္အခ်က္မ်ား ႏွင့္ သုံးသက္ခ်က္မ်ား ကိုေဖာ္ျပထားပါသည္။ [...]

February 17, 2010 | Tags: Burma Lawyers Council, Burmese | Read more >>