By Prachatai |
By UNHCR |
<p>UNHCR advocates for efforts to assist newly arrived Myanmar refugees in Thailand and emphasizes humanitarian and protection needs.</p>
By Amnesty International |
<p>Aung San Suu Kyi's prison sentence is "the latest example of the military’s determination to eliminate all opposition and suffocate freedoms in Myanmar," said Amnesty International yesterday (7 December). </p>
By FORUM-ASIA |
<p>Under the Chairmanship of Cambodia in 2022, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must meaningfully address the regressive human rights crisis in the region, including the rapidly deteriorating situation in Myanmar, said rights groups at a webinar yesterday (2 December).</p>
By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) |
<p><a href="https://aseanmp.org/2021/10/26/parliamentarians-call-on-asean-to-take-concrete-steps-on-myanmar-at-summit-meet-with-nug/">Southeast Asian parliamentarians</a> call on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to use this week’s ASEAN Summit to take concrete actions to resolve the disastrous situation in Myanmar, including by immediately engaging with the National Unity Government (NUG).</p>
By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) |
<p>Civil society calls on UN to Retain Myanmar’s Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun’s accreditation to the UN, amid fears Myanmar people could be ‘robbed of their rightful voice’ by the military junta</p>
By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) |
<p>On 9 September 2021, over 60 former and current parliamentarians from across Southeast Asia have signed an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, urging his administration to take urgent action to support human rights and democracy in Myanmar, and express concern about its stated policy to wait on action by the ASEAN. </p>
By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) |
<p>Southeast Asian parliamentarians have responded warily to the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://aseanmp.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D88dabc094b65d7801c004ec98%26id%3D298ef80540%26e%3D8250da8729&source=gmail&ust=1628179230526000&usg=AFQjCNEfs3zWyBb_R4VgZMXmz2vQzAneug" href="https://aseanmp.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=88dabc094b65d7801c004ec98&id=298ef80540&e=8250da8729" target="_blank">decision by ASEAN</a> to appoint Brunei’s Foreign Affairs Minister II Erywan Yusof as its special envoy to Myanmar, urging him to take immediate and decisive action to put an end to the military’s bloodshed and chaos. </p>
By FORUM-ASIA |
<p>ASEAN and the international community must provide humanitarian aid to Myanmar, but must not allow the junta to weaponize humanitarian aid to seek legitimacy, said Progressive Voice and FORUM-ASIA. </p>
By Progressive Voice |
<p>397 Civil society organizations from Myanmar urge the Group of Seven countries (G7) to take the lead in solving the crisis in Myanmar taking place due to the coup in February instead of the inert ASEAN.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) has released a statement saying that their journalist team of 5 are now “safe in a third country”.</p>
By Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) |
<p>417 right groups issued a statement condemning ASEAN's continuous engagement with the Myanmar junta while refusing to hold dialogues with other parties, including the representatives of the National Unity Government (NUG), ethnic leaders, and the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). </p>