Category: Burma / Myanmar

BURMA: Regional group urges U.N. experts on torture case

Burma / Myanmar, Countries, documents, press releases January 5, 2010August 16, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Phyo Wai Aung’s relatives and lawyer have been obstructed from attending the trial, and he has reportedly been repeatedly abused in custody. He has also said that he was savagely tortured for nine days during interrogation, to have him confess to involvement in a bombing last April. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS RELEASE ALRC-PRL-001-2011 A Press Release by the Asian Legal Resource Centre BURMA: Regional group urges U.N. experts on torture case (Hong Kong, January 5, 2010) The Asian Legal Resource Centre has urged a group of United Nations human rights specialists “to operate to their fullest possible capacity” in the interests of a young man being tried in Burma’s central […]

BURMA and SRI LANKA: Council required to take effective action to address human rights crises

12th Session - 2009 September, ALRC AT THE UN, Burma / Myanmar, Countries, documents, Human Rights Council, Oral Statements, Sri Lanka September 22, 2009August 25, 2015 ALRC 0 Comments

Date: September 22, 2009 Document id: ALRC-COS-12-09-2009 Speaker: Michael Anthony HRC section: Item 4, General Debate An Oral Statement to the 12th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status BURMA and SRI LANKA: Council required to take effective action to address human rights crises Thank you Mr. President, The Council is currently failing to effectively address human rights crises, for example those in Sri Lanka and Myanmar. This is not simply a failing of political will, but also one of approach. In Sri Lanka, the continuing grave situation of IDPs is testimony to this. Furthermore, the […]

BURMA: Institutionalized denial of fundamental rights and the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar

12th Session - 2009 September, ALRC AT THE UN, Burma / Myanmar, Countries, documents, Human Rights Council, Written Submissions September 1, 2009August 25, 2015 ALRC 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 1, 2009 ALRC-CWS-12-03-2009 HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth session � Item 4 A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status BURMA: Institutionalized denial of fundamental rights and the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar 1. The case decided against democracy party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and co-accused this August 2009 brought to global attention the institutionalizing of fundamental human rights abuse through what the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has characterized as Myanmar�s �injustice system�. Although global outrage was expressed at the politically contrived manner in which the proceedings reached their inevitable conclusion, the trial was in […]

BURMA: Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

6th Session - 2007 September, ALRC AT THE UN, Burma / Myanmar, Commission on Human Rights, Countries, documents, Oral Submissions December 12, 2007August 19, 2015 admin 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 12, 2007 ALRC-COS-06-006-2007 ORAL INTERVENTION PRESENTED BY THE ASIAN LEGAL RESOURCE CENTRE AT THE SIXTH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (RESUMED), 12 DECEMBER 2007 Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Mr. Special Rapporteur I speak on behalf of the Asian Legal Resource Centre. You have rightly said of your most recent trip to Myanmar, following the protests of August and September, that it should be seen not as an end in itself but rather as an initial step. The questions that are now on everybody’s mind are what should be the next steps, and on what road? […]

BURMA: International community is failing the people of Myanmar again

6th Session - 2007 September, ALRC AT THE UN, Burma / Myanmar, Countries, documents, Human Rights Council, Written Submissions September 5, 2007August 19, 2015 admin 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 5, 2007 AL-022-2007 A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre to the 6th session of the UN Human Rights Council BURMA: International community is failing the people of Myanmar again 1. On 15 August 2007, the Government of Myanmar increased the cost of all vehicle and generator fuels, over which it holds a monopoly, without prior announcement. As has been widely reported internationally, the diesel fuel prices doubled; compressed natural gas prices, used for some vehicles and cookers, increased five-fold. The increased prices had a quick knock-on effect to other basic services and commodities: buses increased fares in line with the new rates […]

Food Scarcity in Myanmar

ALRC AT THE UN, Burma / Myanmar, CHR 58th Session - 2002, Commission on Human Rights, Countries, documents, Written Submissions March 4, 2002August 25, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Item 10 : ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS 4. Food Scarcity in Myanmar Link to UNCHR COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-eighth Session Item 10 of the Provisional Agenda ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS Written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-Governmental organization with general consultative status Food Scarcity in Myanmar 1. The right to food is a fundamental human right, guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [article 25(1)] and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (article 11). Notwithstanding, the right to food of people in the Union of Myanmar has been submerged by the military domination of that country. Substantial evidence […]