09Mar10 Brief on the Women Political Prisoners in Burma Eng

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Statement from Karen Communities Worldwide
For Immediate Release March 9th 2010
Karen Communities Worldwide Call for Action to Stop Attacks on Civilians
Karen communities in 10 countries are joining forces for a global day of action on Tuesday 9th March, calling on the international community to take action to stop new attacks by the Burmese Army [...]

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H.E. Sheikh Hasina Wajed
Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Prime Minister Office
Dhaka
Bangladesh

Subject:               Concern on the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Your Excellency
‘Assalamo Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barkatuh’
We would like to express our serious concern about the plight of Rohingyas in Bangladesh. We are dismayed by the current [...]

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Reuters – U.N. chief told Myanmar supremo of worries about vote
AFP – Myanmar junta unveils election laws but no date
AFP – Norwegian tanker hijacked off Madagascar: EU
AP – Cameroon footballer sentenced to 9 years in prison for currency forgery in Myanmar
AP – 8 Myanmar police killed on [...]

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09Mar10 News on Migrants & Refugees- 9 March, 2010 (English & Burmese)

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Myanmar provides details of first election law
AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s ruling junta will appoint the commission that will have final say over the country’s first elections in two decades, state-run newspapers announced Tuesday as the country’s military rulers began unveiling the laws that will govern this year’s balloting.
There are growing fears among pro-democracy groups that the [...]

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Reuters – Myanmar’s Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, Senior General Than Shwe, wipes his head as an aide fans him in the museum attached to the Buddhist Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, in Kandy, November 13, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

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08Mar10 News on Migrants & Refugees- 8 Mrch, 2010 (English & Burmese)

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Zoya Phan, international coordinator at Burma Campaign UK
Bangladesh for UN help to repatriate Rohingya refugees
Bangladesh to import 25,000 tonnes of rice from Burma
Weatherman warns [...]

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Reuters – U.N. chief told Myanmar supremo of worries about vote
AFP – Myanmar junta unveils election laws but no date
AFP – Norwegian tanker hijacked off Madagascar: EU
AP – Cameroon footballer sentenced to 9 years in prison for currency forgery in Myanmar
AP – 8 Myanmar police killed on [...]

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Opinion
LETTERS TO EDITOR
The Nation – Published on March 8, 2010

Ref: “American policy on Burma needs sharper teeth”, Editorial, March 6.
Than Shwe might be at a loss on how to proceed with the promised election.
Even with all the advantages of army supremacy – ranging from a secured 25 per cent of seats in parliament without [...]

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- reported by Thandar Htike
Burma Liberation Front members, and other pro-democracy activists, on 02.03.2010, 48th Anniversary of 1st military coup in Burma, made protest demonstrations in front of Burmese military regime embassy in London.

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YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar has announced the enactment of long-awaited laws to set the stage for an election its ruling junta has said will take place later this year.
State television in a Monday afternoon news broadcast said the junta, formally known as the State Peace and Development Council, had [...]

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Statement on International Women’s Day

8 March  2010
Every year on the 8th of March, women all over the world commemorate the International Women’s Day for the advancement of the lives of women and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and oppression. However, in we are not allowed to observe this day.
As a [...]

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40,000 Workers Go on Strike in Rangoon
Freed NLD leader back into thick of party work
Lawyer arrested for defending labour activist freed
Junta Should Go Before ICC, Nobel [...]

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- Ibrahim Kalin
Ibrahim Kalin is chief policy adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.
ANKARA – The exposure of the plan hatched by senior military officials – called “Operation Sledgehammer” [...]

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- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1995 to 1997. He is the author [...]

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AFP – 850,000 migrants register in Thailand: ministry
Bernama – International Organisation Helps Myanmar Reduce Child Death Rate
TAN Network – Ranong Fishermen Complain on Oil Robbery by Myanmar’s Coast Guards
TAN Network – Never Has the Mekong River Ever Been This Dry
CNA – ASEAN held itself together despite challenges [...]

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