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    Quintana says rights situation in Burma ‘challenging’

    Feb 20, 2009 (DVB), United Nations special rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana has said the human rights situation in Burma remains challenging, but noted some positive signs at the end of[…]

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    UN rights envoy Quintana meets political prisoners

    Feb 18, 2009 (DVB), The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, met five political prisoners including two elected representatives in Insein prison on 16[…]

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    UN rights envoy visits Insein prison

    Feb 17, 2009 (DVB), United Nations special rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana went to Rangoon's Insein prison yesterday as part of his six-day visit to Burma to assess human rights developments[…]

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    DKBA troops burn down Karen village

    Feb 17, 2009 (DVB), Troops from battalion 999 of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army raided and burnt down a Karen village near Myawaddy township last week, according to villagers. One[…]

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    UN rights envoy Quintana visits Pa-an prison

    Feb 16, 2009 (DVB), The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, visited Pa-an prison in Karen state yesterday during his second trip to the[…]

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    Homesick: Vacation on the Thai-Burma border

    Htet Aung Kyaw Jan 19, 2009 (DVB), Although the word 'vacation' is still a strange one to most ordinary Burmese people inside the country, many Burmese in exile, including this[…]

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    Homesick: Vacation on the Thai-Burma border

    Htet Aung Kyaw Jan 19, 2009 (DVB), Although the word 'vacation' is still a strange one to most ordinary Burmese people inside the country, many Burmese in exile, including this[…]

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    Rights groups condemn Rohingya abuse

    Jan 19, 2009 (DVB), Human rights groups have condemned the Thai authorities' treatment of hundreds of Rohingya who washed up on Thai shores last year and were reportedly towed back[…]

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    Quintana urges action on human rights

    Dec 10, 2008 (DVB), United Nations special rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana has described the situation of political prisoners as "a permanent and constant human rights violation" and called for concrete[…]

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    Rights activists given life sentences

    Dec 1, 2008 (DVB), Northern Rangoon Provincial court handed down life sentences to Human Rights Defendants and Protectors network member Myint Aye and two of his colleagues on Friday. Judge[…]

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    Constitution perpetuates violence against women: WLB

    Nov 27, 2008 (DVB), The Women's League of Burma has said the military regime's new constitution condemns women to a continuing cycle of violence, in a statement released to mark[…]

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    UN rights envoy calls for tangible progress before 2010

    Oct 27, 2008 (DVB), The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma has said democracy in Burma will take "generations" to achieve and called for concrete progress by[…]

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    UN envoy calls for respect for basic rights

    Oct 10, 2008 (DVB), United Nations rights envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana has set out four basic requirements that need to be met by the Burmese government if the 2010 elections[…]

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    Burmese detainees face abuses in Bangaldeshi jails

    Sep 18, 2008 (DVB), Burmese nationals detained in prisons along the Bangladeshi border have faced human right abuses and had no assistance from Burmese diplomatic representatives, two Burmese organisations reported.[…]

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    Bo Kyi to receive human rights award

    Sep 17, 2008 (DVB), Bo Kyi of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners is one of five people to receive a 2008 Human Rights Defenders Award from international rights group[…]

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    Activists and member states discuss ASEAN rights body

    Sep 16, 2008 (DVB), Representatives of NGOs were among those who took part in ASEAN discussions in Manila on 11 September on the setting up of a body to monitor[…]

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    Activists stress need for free access for rights envoy

    Aug 5, 2008 (DVB), Rights activists have stressed the need for the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma to be given the freedom to work independently during[…]

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    Burma opposes investigative powers for rights body

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    Activists urge action after ASEAN charter ratification

    Jul 23, 2008 (DVB), Burmese rights activists have welcomed Burma's ratification of the ASEAN charter but urged that public education and an enforcement mechanism are key to the protection of[…]

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    Manipuri rebels commit abuses against Chin villagers

    Jul 16, 2008 (DVB), Manipuri separatist rebels have been committing human rights abuses against local Zomi ethnic people in northern Chin state’s Ton Zan district, the Zomi Human Rights Foundation[…]

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    Amnesty International calls for prisoner release

    Jun 26, 2008 (DVB), Rights group Amnesty International has called on the military regime in Burma to release political prisoners Myo Yan Naung Thein and U Ohn Than immediately to[…]

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    Rights activists commemorate cyclone victims

    Jun 3, 2008 (DVB), A one-month memorial commemorating the victims of Cyclone Nargis was held by the Human Rights Defenders and Promoters network in Irrawaddy’s Bassein and Bogalay townships yesterday.[…]

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    Lawyer U Aye Myint given human rights award

    May 21, 2008 (DVB), The European Bar Human Rights Institute announced on Monday that it would confer the Ludovic-Trarieux Human Rights Award 2008 on Burmese lawyer U Aye Myint. The[…]

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    88 Students' letter campaign highlights abuses

    Apr 8, 2008 (DVB), Letters written to the 88 Generation Students' Open Heart campaign last year reflect the wide-ranging abuses by Burmese authorities and illustrate the need for urgent action,[…]

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    Rights activist hospitalised after attack

    Mar 31, 2008 (DVB), Human Rights Defenders and Promoters network member U Myint Aye is being treated for a head wound at Rangoon Neurological Hospital after being attacked on Thursday.[…]

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    UN rapporteur dismayed by ongoing rights abuses

    Feb 6, 2008 (DVB), United Nations special rapporteur Paulo Sergio Pinheiro expressed his "dismay" at the Burmese regime's continued detention and sentencing of activists, in a statement issued yesterday. Pinheiro[…]

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    Taunggok NLD member dies at 51

    Feb 1, 2008 (DVB), Taunggok township National League for Democracy communications committee member and human rights activist U Aung Than Htun passed away on 29 January at the age of[…]

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    ASEAN discusses framework for regional rights body

    Jan 30, 2008 (AFP), Human rights commissioners from four Southeast Asian nations began a two-day meeting in Manila Tuesday to try to establish the framework for a regional human rights[…]

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    Girl sold to traffickers by her mother

    Jan 23, 2008 (DVB), A seventeen-year-old Burmese girl, who escaped from human traffickers in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, said she had been sold to the traffickers by[…]

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    Japan offers aid and rights reminder to Mekong nations

    Jan 17, 2008 (AFP), Japan on Wednesday offered fresh aid to Mekong River nations while issuing a gentle reminder on human rights as it sought to counter China’s growing influence[…]

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