Myanmar: If you live in Myanmar...there is a huge gap between your rights and daily reality

Myanmar: If you live in Myanmar...there is a huge gap between your rights and daily reality

Index Number: ASA 16/001/2007
Date Published: 1 March 2007
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Myanmar

Amnesty International documents human rights violations in Myanmar of the kind described in this leaflet; works with activists worldwide and lobbies governments to campaign for redress and protection. This leaflet describes violations such as being forced into unpaid labour and tortured, even to death, by the police or army and urges readers to pressure the authorities to protect people's rights in law and in practice.