THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012 00:00MIZZIMA NEWS Three political prisoners in Burma are facing an imminent threat to their life if they are not released on grounds of compassion, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners-Burma said in a statement on Thursday. The prisoners are Phyo Wai Aung; Sunny (also known as San Shar); and Mira Mauth […]
THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012 00:00MIZZIMA NEWS Burmese police arrested five NLD members in a protest against electrical power shortages in Pyi on Thursday. A senior official of the National League for Democracy (NLD) said its members were taken in custody for questioning. NLD members were also briefly detained for questioning in Mandalay in the early […]
WEDNESDAY, 09 MAY 2012 00:00AFP, DVB The Burmese government has issued opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi a passport, her party said Tuesday, as the former political prisoner prepares to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years. The 66-year-old democracy icon, who spent much of the last two decades locked up in her […]
TUESDAY, 08 MAY 2012 00:00HANNA HINDSTROM, DVB Burma’s landmark census planned for 2014 is likely to exclude and further isolate its Rohingya minority group, which has been denied citizenship by the government since 1982. Although the government has agreed to include all “national races” in the census, the 1.5 million Muslim minority group does not […]
THURSDAY, 03 MAY 2012 00:00MIZZIMA NEWS (Mizzima) – Burmese President Thein Sein said the government would increase cooperation with international nongovernment organizations, including the United Nations, to supply humanitarian aid and resettlement to ethnic areas. Thein Sein told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Monday that the government is successfully working with 10 ethnic armed groups […]
The Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB)’s A/V team recorded a video of the play “Fallen Rose” in Mae Sot on April 21 and 22. The play depicts the devastation of child and human trafficking. It was written and performed by members of United Act theater group and edited by Ko Pan Thee, a […]
TUESDAY, 24 APRIL 2012 More than 20 Burmese nationals including four underage teenagers sold to work on a fishing boat in Thailand’s Chonburi province have been rescued by the area’s Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTD) last Friday. On the morning of 20 April, the group was rescued by AHTD officials, according to Kyaw Thaung, coordinator of […]
The Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB) released an anti-homophobia and anti-transphobia poster on May 17th, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO). The title of the poster is “Homosexuality is not a sickness, but homophobia is.” It depicts scenes among gay, transgender, and transsexual models. The poster was released prior to IDAHO […]
WEDNESDAY, 04 APRIL 2012 A leaked government document has confirmed that the controversial Myitsone dam project in Kachin state is set to reopen just six months after Thein Sein pledged to halt operations during his presidency. In a letter dated 28 March 2012, local authorities request the importation of materials to restart the US3.6 billion […]
Equality Myanmar (formerly HREIB) is a nongovernmental organization which facilitates a broad range of human rights education and advocacy programs.
