Rainbow editor group (15th February) – In 2012, the Colours Rainbow group will continue to broadcasts television programs, with a variety of topics covered in each month’s program. The first program of 2012 can be watched online. The Colours Rainbow group, a Chiang Mai based LGBT rights activist group, started Rainbow TV programs in late […]
The Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB) has released a music album promoting peace and conflict resolution. The album will be distributed at International Peace Day events which are being held throughout Burma on September 21st. The album, titled “A Light in the Door,” is dedicated to raising awareness of the struggle and hardship […]
From September 9 to 14, the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB) and the anti-child trafficking group United-Act held a collaborative CRC Audit Training (TOT) in Mae Sot, Thailand. The training centered on the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and shared the message to other children. Participants were […]
From August 31 to September 8, HREIB conducted a training on peace and conflict resolution for youth from Burma at HREIB’s head office in Chaing Mai, Thailand. The training focused on the relationship between peace and human rights concepts. Participants were trained in conducting community events about peace, which they will use upon returning communities […]
From July 16 to August 12, HREIB conducted the annual Training of Trainers (TOT) at the head office in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The focus of the training is the empowerment of human rights activists and trainers from inside Burma. This year, the training specifically targeted trainers from Yangon and Mandalay, where HREIB is currently operating […]
Thursday, 28 June 2012 00:00 Mizzima News Burma will enforce a law against child soldiers and allow the U.N. access to military units to check for underage recruits, the U.N. said on Wednesday, following the signing of an agreement in Naypyitaw, the capital. The Joint Action Plan said Burma would halt child soldier recruitment and […]
Monday, 09 July 2012 00:00 Mizzima While welcoming the release of 25 Burmese political prisoners last week, Burma Campaign UK (BCUK) said the international community should demand the release of all remaining prisoners immediately. Prisoner releases have been going on for nearly two years, it noted, prior to the formation of the new government. It […]
Friday, 29 June 2012 00:00 Mizzima In light of recent Burmese government statements and actions following media coverage of the unrest in Rakhine State, Reporters Without Borders (RWB), a freedom of the press watchdog, warned on Friday Burma is tightening restrictions on the press in spite of recent promises to end censorship. “Until now, the […]
TUESDAY, 26 JUNE 2012 00:00MIZZIMA At least 7,000 to 10,000 Kachin refugees from Burma have sought refuge across the border in Yunnan Province in southwestern China, according to a Human Rights Watch report released on Tuesday. “The Chinese government has generally tolerated Kachin refugees staying in Yunnan, but now needs to meet its international legal […]
TUESDAY, 26 JUNE 2012 00:00MIZZIMA Burmese President Thein Sein on Monday outlined the government’s focus to provide a new minimum wage and its efforts to bring economic development to average workers in rural and urban areas. At a two-day Social Protection Conference in Naypyitaw, jointly organized by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement […]
Equality Myanmar (formerly HREIB) is a nongovernmental organization which facilitates a broad range of human rights education and advocacy programs.
