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JURIST Special Guest Columnist Basil Fernando of the Asian Legal Resource Centre says that repression of the Burmese people by the military government of the country now officially known as Myanmar is a device used against a despairing people that...

Opposition activists in Myanmar called for the release of pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi Friday as the nation observed its independence day. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NDL)...

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...

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro has concluded that at least 31 people were killed in a crackdown on anti-government protesters this September, according to UN...

The military government of Myanmar reported Monday that it has released 8,585 detainees since the middle of November to celebrate progress toward drafting a national constitution , but opposition party National League for Democracy...

The military government of Myanmar Monday rejected calls from the United Nations for the country's constitution-drafting process to be opened to outside groups, saying that the new constitution would be drafted solely by a 54-member constitution-drafting...

The UN General Assembly Third Committee Tuesday passed a draft resolution condemning the recent crackdown against political dissidents in Myanmar, calling on the country's military government to release all political prisoners and to cooperate with UN special...

Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed Tuesday to a new charter that will unite members into an economic bloc similar to the European Union, but faced criticism for the charter's weak stance on...

Singaporean human rights group SG Human Rights called Sunday for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to split off the human rights section of its proposed new charter into a separate treaty. Chapter 14...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said Friday that he obtained enough information from a five-day visit to Myanmar to determine the number of people killed during September's crackdown on pro-democracy protests...