Myanmar police fired on prisoners during cyclone: UN rights report
The Myanmar military government should investigate allegations that police opened fire on panicked prisoners during last month's devastating cyclone, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana said Friday. In a...
Will the Universal Periodic Review Save the UN Human Rights Council?
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ophélie Namiech, a Legacy Heritage Fellow working for UN Watch in Geneva, says that to restore the credibility of the UN Human Rights Council governments that care about human rights must commit themselves to do everything...
State Department deplores rights records of North Korea, Iran, in annual reports
The US State Department Tuesday heavily criticized the right records of North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Eritrea and Sudan Tuesday in its annual report on worldwide human rights observance. In the introduction to the...
Burma referendum indicates entrenchment of current regime's power, not democracy
Awzar Thi : "The news that Burma's government will hold a constitutional plebiscite this May, followed by general elections in 2010, has captured interest and caused some confusion abroad. That the army is intent upon cementing...
The US Senate passed the Block Burmese JADE (Junta's Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act of 2007 Wednesday, a bill that would impose new economic sanctions and travel restrictions on leaders from Myanmar . The bill is...
US President George W. Bush imposed new sanctions on 12 Myanmar businesses and individuals in an executive order issued Friday. Included in the order freezing US-held assets and blocking certain property transactions were designations by the...
Myanmar human rights activist Ko Myint Naing has been sentenced to eight years in prison, according to his lawyer and fellow activists Wednesday. A judge sentenced Myint Naing for inciting unrest during an April 2007 incident in which Myint...
China and Russia Friday vetoed a proposed UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to political repression and human rights violations in Myanmar . The resolution was jointly sponsored by the United...
UN rights expert wants Myanmar political prisoner deaths investigated
At least 127 democracy activists held by the military junta in Myanmar have died from "torture or ill-treatment," according to a report released Tuesday by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) . The report by...
JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says the current proposal for a new UN Human Rights Council may not be perfect, but it is far better...
