2.01.2011

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Open Letter to the Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)

February 2011,

To: the ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights


We call on AICHR to substantively engage and work together with the regional human rights community towards the meaningful and effective fulfillment of its mandate. Such measures are essential to the spirit and content of the ASEAN Charter to promote a people-oriented ASEAN in which all sectors of society are encouraged to participate in, and benefit from, the process of ASEAN integration and community building

These measures should include regular transparent, participative and informative dialogues with the regional human rights community, including civil society organizations committed to the promotion and protection of human rights. This can start from the first meeting of the AICHR in 2011, on 9-13 February in Solo, Indonesia.

 Such measures are in keeping with the Terms of Reference to establish the AICHR, which is meant to contribute to the participation of ASEAN peoples in the ASEAN Community-building process, as well as to consult with key stakeholders in the region.

We are concerned that in its 15 months of operations, the AICHR appears to be pre-occupied with procedural matters, at the expense of addressing serious and ongoing human rights challenges in the region. Of particular concern is the AICHR’s inability to officially receive information on severe human rights situations forwarded by civil society organizations.

We call on AICHR to turn a new page in its relations with the regional and national human rights community by keeping the public informed of it work and activities. It is urgent that AICHR is able to address human rights issues in an open and effective way.

It is in the interest of the AICHR to work in partnership with the regional and national human rights community, as a valuable resource of experience, information, skills, energy, human resources and commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights.

Yours in solidarity with the peoples of ASEAN,

1.      Solidarity for Asian Peoples’ Advocacy (SAPA) Task Force on ASEAN & Human Rights, Bangkok – Thailand.
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ဒီေန႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္စည္းေ၀းပြဲမွာ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေဟာင္း ၂ ေယာက္နဲ႔အတူ ႀကံ့ဖြံ႔ပါတီ၀င္ တခ်ဳိ႕ကို ဒုတိယ သမၼတေလာင္းေတြအျဖစ္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ လ်ာထားပါတယ္။
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ထိပ္တန္းသတင္းမ်ား

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သမၼတလုပ္ရန္ မေသခ်ာေတာ့

ယေန႔က်င္းပသည့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ အစည္းအေ၀းမ ွေရြးခ်ယ္အဆိုျပဳေသာ ဒုတိယ သမၼတ အမည္စာရင္းတြင္ စစ္တပ္ အႀကီးအကဲ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊ၏ အမည္စာရင္း မပါရွိ ေသာေၾကာင့္ ၎ သမၼတျဖစ္ရန္

တိုက္ပြဲေၾကာင့္ ထိုင္း ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ ၁၀၀၀ ခန္႔ တိမ္းေရွာင္ရ

ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ျမ၀တီခရိုင္အတြင္း ယေန႔နံနက္က ျဖစ္ပြားသည့္တိုက္ပြဲမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံ ဖုတ္ဖရ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မိုးကဲရြာနယ္စပ္သို႔ ၁၂၀ မမ လက္နက္ႀကီးက်ည္ ၁၀ လံုးေက်ာ္ က်ေရာက္ေပါက္ကြဲခဲ့သျဖင့္

လႊတ္ေတာ္အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ၅ သိန္းတန္ GSMခ်ေပးမည္

ႏွစ္ ၂၀ ေက်ာ္အတြင္း ပထမဆံုးက်င္းပသည့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚယူျခင္း အထိမ္းအမွတ္အျဖစ္ က်ပ္ ၅ သိန္းတန္ GSM မိုဘိုင္းလ္ ဖုန္းလိုင္း ၂ သိန္းကို ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ ၆ ရက္ေန႔မွ စတင္ ခ်ေပးေတာ့မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း

ႀကံ့ဖြံ႕ ကမၸည္း ေက်ာက္စာတိုင္ ထူရန္ ေငြေကာက္

ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း ေတာင္ဥကၠလာပ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ရပ္ကြက္မ်ားရိွ ကြန္ကရစ္၊ ကတၱရာခင္း လမ္းမ်ား၏ ထိပ္၌ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ႀကံ့ခိုင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး(ႀကံ့ဖြံ႕)ကမၸည္း ေမာ္ကြန္း ေက်ာက္စာတိုင္မ်ား စိုက္ထူရန္

DKBA က နအဖ တပ္စခန္းကို တိုက္ခိုက္

ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ေကာ့ကရိတ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၌ နအဖ စစ္အစိုးရ ဗ်ဴဟာ တည္ရွိရာ ေတာင္သံုးလံုး စခန္းကုိ တိုးတက္ေသာ ဗုဒၶ ဘာ သာ ကရင္ အမ်ဳိးသား တပ္မေတာ္(DKBA) တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားက ယမန္ေန႔ ည ၁၂

တပ္ေျပး ကေလးစစ္သားမ်ားကို ဖမ္းဆီး ေထာင္ခ်ေန

ကေလးစစ္သားအျဖစ္ စုေဆာင္းခံထားရသည့္ ကာလတြင္ မိသားစုထံ ျပန္လည္ထြက္ေျပးလာသူမ်ားကို သက္ဆိုင္ရာ တပ္ရင္းက တပ္ေျပးအျဖစ္ ျပန္လည္ဖမ္းဆီး ေထာင္ခ်မႈမ်ား ရွိေနေၾကာင္း

အာဆီယံ အမတ္မ်ားႏွင့္ NLD ေတြ႕ဆုံ

အာဆီယံ လစ္ဘရယ္ ဒီမုိကရက္ အဖြဲ႕က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအ၀င္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္(NLD) ဗဟုိ အလုပ္ အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႕ကုိ ယမန္ေန႔က ေတြ႕ဆုံခဲ့သည္။

ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ဥကၠ႒ သူရ ဦးေရႊမန္းကို ေရြးခ်ယ္

ယေန႔က်င္းပသည့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္အစည္းအေဝးမွ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒အျဖစ္ စစ္အစိုးရ၏ နံပါတ္ ၃ အဆင့္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ သူရ ဦးေရႊမန္းအား ေရြးခ်ယ္လိုက္သည္။
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ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္သစ္ က်င္းပၿပီး အစိုးရသစ္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းတာဟာ ျမန္မာနို္င္ငံရဲ႕ နို္င္ငံေရးျပႆနာနဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသား ရင္ႀကားေစ့ေရး ကိစၥ ေျဖရွင္းနိုင္တဲ့ အခင္းအက်င္း မဟုတ္ေသးဘူးလို႔ ျမန္မာ့ရန္ပံုေငြအဖဲြ႕ ကုလသမဂၢ႐ံုးက တနဂၤေႏြေန႔က ေျပာႀကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။