Tag: Elections / Democracy
Burma: Religious Freedom and Related Human Rights Violations are Hindering Broader Reforms
USCIRF is concerned that recent openings have coincided with serious and alarming violence against religious and ethnic minorities. Attacks against Muslims, particularly Rohingya Muslims, as well as against Christians, continue with impunity. Burma’s government, both at the central and state levels, has been unable or unwilling to address the...
Legal Memorandum: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Eastern Myanmar
The Clinic sought to determine whether violations of international criminal law occurred during the Offensive, and whether there exist reasonable grounds to assert that individual military officers could be held responsible for those crimes.
In January 2011, the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic (“the Clinic”) began to investigate...
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar – on 69th Session of UN General Assembly (A/69/398)
The present report sets out the Special Rapporteur's preliminary key areas of focus and reccomendation aimed at contributing to Myanmar's efforts toward respecting, protecting and promoting human rights and achieving democratization, national reconciliation and development.
The present report sets out the Special Rapporteur's preliminary key areas of focus and reccomendation...
