DVB Multimedia Group

Burmese Site.
  • News
    • Business
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Media
    • Politics
  • Lifestyle
    • Culture
    • Sport
    • Travel & Tourism
    • Society
  • Opinion & Analysis
    • Interview
  • Video
  • Photos
  • Features
  • Advertise
    • Visit us on FacebookVisit us on Facebook
    • Follow us on TwitterFollow us on Twitter

    Tagged: quintana

    Lead Story News Rohingya

    Sittwe court extends Rohingya activist’s detention, again

    The detention of a distinguished Rohingya lawyer and rights activist has been extended by a court in western Burma, prompting renewed calls from rights groups for his immediate amnesty.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Korean child psychologist to be next Special Rapporteur

    A child psychologist from South Korea, Yanghee Lee, has been appointed to take over from Tomas Ojea Quintana as United Nations Special Rapporteur to Burma as from 1 June, DVB has learned.

    Ethnic issues Health Lead Story News Rohingya

    Aid in Arakan at ‘bare minimum’

    The international community has again issued urgent pleas to the Burmese government to restore humanitarian access in Arakan State, where critical health and supply services were largely terminated in late March.

    More

    Lead Story News Politics Rohingya

    UN envoy remains ‘convinced’ of Maungdaw killings

    In an exclusive interview with DVB, Special Rapporteur Quintana calls on the Burmese government to engage with the international community in investigating the alleged massacre in Maungdaw, including the introduction of forensics experts.

    Quintana slams Maungdaw investigation video

    Lead Story News Politics Rohingya Video

    Quintana slams Maungdaw investigation

    The UN envoy concludes his six-year tenure as Special Rapporteur with a press conference at which he praised Burma’s reforms but questioned the impartiality of a domestic inquiry into the alleged massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Duchira Dan on 13-14 January.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Politics

    UN envoy meets Kachin leaders, refugees

    United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana, visited Kachin State where he met with Kachin leaders and refugees on Sunday.

    Analysis Contributor Ethnic issues Lead Story News Uncategorized

    Poverty: a pressing human rights issue for the Chin

    Why is poverty such a huge problem in Chin State? Rachel Fleming of Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) examines the causes and potential solutions from a human rights perspective.

    Communal Violence Lead Story News Politics Rohingya

    Quintana plans Arakan visit in midst of anti-UN protests

    UN Special Rapporteur to visit Arakan as protestors around the region demand that the UN, along with MSF and other international relief agencies, are forced to withdraw their operations.

    Communal Violence Lead Story News

    RNDP Chairman, 10 others released on bail

    Eleven Arakanese nationalists, who were detained in connection with the ethno-religious violence that broke out in October, have been released on bail.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Burma govt slams Quintana allegation as ‘totally wrong’

    Presidential spokesman Ye Htut defends Meikhtila police and says the UN envoy’s allegation that his convoy was attacked is totally wrong.

    Convoy attack offers UN envoy insight into residents’ fears video

    Lead Story News Video

    Convoy attack offers UN envoy insight into residents’ fears

    The UN’s human rights envoy to Burma has slammed the government for failing to protect him during a tour of riot-hit Meikhtila.

    Lead Story News

    UN envoy faces protestors in Meikhtila

    The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights, Tomás Ojea Quintana, is met by a mob of protestors as he arrived in Meikhtila, the central Burmese town that was the center of deadly violence between Buddhists and Muslims in March.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Quintana ‘too rushed’ to meet Chin civic groups

    Chin groups say they were denied the chance to present their human rights issues to the UN Special Rapporteur due to his rushed schedule.

    Rohingya camps “more like prisons” says UN video

    Video

    Rohingya camps “more like prisons” says UN

    The United Nations Human Rights envoy invited journalists to Rangoon’s international airport on Saturday to warn the government and the rest of the world that continuing human rights abuses could[…]

    News Politics

    UN envoy to press govt on Kachin

    Tomas Quintana arrives in Rangoon tonight and will raise the need for further aid to 70,000 Kachin displaced by ongoing fighting

    News Politics

    Advisor: govt to form rights committee

    Govt advisor claims that a committee to examine human rights is being created, with opposition sceptical over appointment of members

    News Politics

    Suu Kyi ‘encouraged’ by Quintana meet

    Daw Aung San Suu Kyi positive after first meeting with UN human rights envoy in Rangoon yesterday as Tomas Quintana raps up trip to the country

    News Politics

    US backs UN inquiry in Burma

    Obama’s administration to throw its weight behind a United Nations commission inquiring war crimes committed by the junta

    News Politics

    UN Human Rights envoy in fact-finding mission

    United Nation’s special rapporteur on human rights in Burma met with exiled Burmese activist groups in Thailand last Saturday in a fact-finding mission

    News Politics

    Burma slams ‘dangerous’ UN report

    UN report ‘violated the right of a sovereign state’ and was based on ‘unfounded allegations’, Burma’s UN ambassador claims

    News Politics

    Burma war crimes probe gets UN backing

    UN rights expert makes unprecedented call for war crimes and crimes against humanity investigation into Burmese junta

    News Politics

    UN rights envoy to visit Burma in February

    Jan 29, 2010 (DVB), Tomas Ojea Quintana, United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma, is planning to make a visit to the country in February.[…]

    News Politics

    UN expert slams Burma impunity

    Oct 23, 2009 (DVB), Widespread government impunity in Burma has allowed the country's "alarming" human rights situation to continue unabated, the United Nations special rapporteur for Burma said yesterday. Little[…]

    News Politics

    Son of KNU leader joins pro-junta splinter group

    Mar 11, 2009 (DVB), A son of the late Karen National Union leader, Bo Mya, has joined a pro-government Karen splinter group led by General Htein Maung, KNU General Secretary[…]

    News Politics

    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[…]

    News Politics

    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[…]

    News

    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[…]

    News

    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[…]

    Uncategorized

    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[…]

    Uncategorized

    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[…]

    • Next Page »
    • Talk to DVB

      Newsletter

      job announcement

    • Opinion & Analysis

      • Justice in Burma: Wounds on the wall By VERONICA COLLINS
      • Democratising the public space in Burma By AYE THEIN
      • Reclaiming the narrative on women in Burma By MAGGI QUADRINI
    • Featured StoryMobilizing Young, First-time Voters is an Investment in Myanmar’s Future
    • In Photos

      • gallery

        Ethnic Lisu in China aim to save crossbow culture

      • gallery

        In Pictures: Chin National Day celebrated in Mindat

      • gallery

        In Pictures: Shan National Day draws a crowd to RCSS’s border headquarters

      • gallery

        Dinner for the Spirits

      • gallery

        Inside one of Kachin State’s newest IDP camps

    • Khan lessons on DVB
    • Home
    • Tagged: quintana
    • News
      • Business
      • Environment
      • Health
      • Media
      • Politics
    • Analysis
    • Photos
    • Video
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
    • Advertise
    • Visit us on FacebookVisit us on Facebook
    • Follow us on TwitterFollow us on Twitter

    © Copyright 2013 DVB Multimedia Group