Archive for January, 2011

For Immediate Release
21 January 2011
BURMA FACES FIRST-EVER REVIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD AT UN
Burma’s human rights record will come under scrutiny at the United Nations in the country’s first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 27 January. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) and representatives from the Burma Forum on the Universal Periodic Review [...]

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Associated Content – Myanmar Junta’s Widespread Repression and Abuses Documented for First Time
Asian Correspondent – All the Senior General’s Men in Burmese Parliaments
AP – Myanmar military appoints members of Parliament
AP – Risky SKorean raid saves entire crew from pirates
AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi gets web access
BBC News – Burma’s Aung San [...]

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Monk Suffering

21jan11 PDF – _420_Monk Suffering
Ko Ko Aung

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Five Burmese ethnic political parties which won 57 seats out of 1,160 seats in the Burma election called on Western nations to lift sanctions against the Burmese military regime which was followed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which praised the election on November 2010 as “conducive and transparent”. Those demands to the [...]

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- Volker Perthes
Volker Perthes is Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP).
BERLIN – In Istanbul this week, representatives of Iran and the [...]

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20jan11 47176385 Poison Clouds English

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AFP – US pledges to work for Myanmar democracy with Suu Kyi
ABC Radio Australia – Doctors call for UN inquiry into Chin State abuses in Burma
Straits Times – Myanmar looks at stock market to attract capital
AsiaNews.it – The military junta – not sanctions – cause of Burmese people’s suffering
Jakarta Post – [...]

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20jan11 PDF – _419_The Time Military Thefts Hold in Power
Ko Ko Aung

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20jan11 PDF – _418_Two Tricks Play by SPDC
Ko Ko Aung

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20jan11 Life Under the Junta

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20jan11 PDF – _417_Keep Rolling With the Good Works
Ko Ko Aung

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Learning from Lebanon

- Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group and author of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
NEW YORK – After watching the collapse of [...]

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20jan11 CHRO – New Evidence of Abuses in Burma’s Chin State Strengthens Call for COI

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20jan11 UPR Burma Press Release 2011Jan20 FINAL

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AP – Group says survey confirms Myanmar rights abuses
AFP – Myanmar rights report says minority group killed, raped
IRIN – MYANMAR: Chin State abuses “crime against humanity” – NGO
Bangkok Post – Burmese soldiers arrest eight Thais
Bangkok Post – Burmese soldiers release eight Thais
ABC Radio Australia – Burma considers new trade union [...]

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For Immediate Release
19 January 2011
CSW RENEWS CALL FOR UN INQUIRY INTO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN BURMA FOLLOWING NEW EVIDENCE OF VIOLATIONS IN CHIN STATE

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) welcomes the release today of a major new report highlighting human rights violations against the Chin people in Burma, just over a week before [...]

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The Death of Pakistan?

- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, a former Indian finance minister, foreign minister, and defense minister, is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
NEW DELHI – This is a tipping point for Pakistan. [...]

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Please find attached EBO’s 2nd Political Monitor report.
18jan11 PM_No._2_-_18-01-11
Apologies for the delay.
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.  
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