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European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering Wednesday faulted the ruling junta of Myanmar for saying it would go ahead with a scheduled May 10 referendum on a draft constitution in the aftermath of a devastating...

Myanmar opposition group the National League for Democracy (NLD) Tuesday slammed the country's ruling junta for plans to go ahead with a scheduled May 10 referendum on a draft constitution despite a devastating weekend storm that...

A scheduled May 10 referendum on a draft constitution proposed by Myanmar's ruling junta will proceed as planned despite a devastating weekend storm that left an estimated 4000 people dead and thousands more homeless,...

A scheduled May 10 referendum on a new constitution proposed by Myanmar's ruling junta is a "sham" designed to legitimize military rule, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

Myanmar voters will be permitted to observe ballot counting in a scheduled May national referendum on a draft constitution put forth by the country's ruling junta, according to Thursday state media reports. Government officials...

Myanmar's military government has arrested more than 20 peaceful demonstrators protesting the scheduled May 10 national constitutional referendum , the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) said Tuesday. The NLD also said that government security forces have detained...

Myanmar is completely ill-prepared to hold a national constitutional referendum as part of a democratic political transition, UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro told Reuters in an interview Monday. Myanmar's 45-member Referendum Holding...

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...

Myanmar's 45-member Referendum Holding Commission has scheduled a planned national constitutional referendum for May 10, the military government announced Wednesday. Opposition groups like the National League for Democracy (NLD) have urged citizens to reject the...

Maureen Aung-Thwin : "Over the past two decades, various United Nations entities - the General Assembly, the Human Rights Commission (now Council) and the Security Council, have all condemned the Burmese...