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Civil groups reject 'flawed' human rights declaration draft
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 25/09/2012
» Civil society organisations have joined their Asean peers in opposing a draft Asean Human Rights Declaration (AHRD), claiming it would actually diminish human rights in the region.
UN, Asean urged to send team to Rakhine
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 15/06/2012
» International and Bangkok-based Myanmar rights activists called on the United Nations and Asean to send an independent fact-finding team into Rakhine as the sectarian conflict in the country's western state worsens.
Activists call for swift action on Myanmar violence
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/06/2012
» The United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations must quickly intervene in the spiraling sectarian conflict in Myanmar's northwestern state of Rakhine and send an independent fact-finding team to ascertain and monitor the situation, activists in exile said during a seminar in Bangkok.
Migrants flock to see Suu Kyi
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 31/05/2012
» MAHACHAI, SAMUT SAKHON : Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi told thousands of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand that she was working to pave the way for their return home.
Migrant labour conditions slowly improving, says Myanmar minister
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/04/2012
» With industrial development still some years off in Myanmar, Nyapyidaw's concern at present is to ensure that migrant workers receive standard rights protection, because their remittances have helped shape the growing economy, Myanmar Deputy Labour Minister Myint Thein said in Bangkok on Thursday evening.