Category: National

12 September 2013: British Foreign Secretary William Hague has been urged to prioritise issues of rapes and sexual violence in Burma at the UN meeting on 24 September.

PENANG – 10 September 2013: A man identified as a Burmese national jumped to his death from a flat at Penang when his rented house was ambushed by Malaysian immigration officers targeting undocumented foreign workers.

KUALA LUMPUR – 08 September 2013: While numbers of undocumented foreign workers detained under a big scale operation continue to increase, dozens of Burmese nationals have lodged police reports against agents who failed to legalize them under the previous ‘whitening’ program.

03 September 2013: The Women’s Initiative Network for Peace (Win-Peace) has called on the government of Burma to release women activists arrested and jailed for their roles in peaceful protests in the country.

31 August 2013: Parents and teachers from Christian families in Chin State complain about their children having to go to school on Saturdays and sometimes, Sundays.

30 August 2013: At least six Burmese activists in Rangoon have been arrested following their protests against the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession law on Tuesday.

28 August 2013: The Human Rights Watch said the current draft associations law would severely constrain activities of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Burma.

26 August 2013: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said people from religious and ethnic minorities still express fears and face restrictions in Burma.

19 August 2013: UNHCR announced last week that it would make an individual registration of asylum seekers from Burma in Malaysia starting from 2 September 2013.

9 August 2013: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Burma, Tomás Quintana, will be making his first ever visit to Chin State next week.