This joint report is submitted by the Myanmar Child Rights Coalitions (MCRC)1 and focused on the issues related to children’s rights in Myanmar by referring to the recommendations from the 2nd Cycle of UPR which were being committed to implementing them by Government of Myanmar. This joint submission particularly focuses on three main sections: 1) […]
Over the last 5 years since the previous UPR submission, there have been few improvements in Burma’s failing judicial system. Activists and journalists remain detained arbitrability and sentenced to jail for exercising their freedom of expression. There has been a rise in ethnic conflict, particularly in the Arakan state. Recent conflict between Arakan Army and […]
The Burma/Myanmar UPR Forum is a coalition of 29 civil society organizations working to improve the human rights in Myanmar. Since its formation in 2010, the Forum has collaboratively submitted joint stakeholder reports for Myanmar’s 1st and 2nd UPR cycles respectively. Forum monitors human rights situation on the ground in the hopes that our work […]
The 2020 UPR report launching event was held in Yangon on 30 August 2020. The report was prepared by the Burma/Myanmar UPR Forum and will be submitted with the report of the Myanmar Child Rights Coalition to the UN Human Rights Council. The following issues were covered in the UR report; the ratification and co-operation […]
