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Myanmar Briefing. Human rights concerns a month after Cyclone ...
5 June 2008

Amnesty International fears that the humanitarian crisis after Cyclone Nargis may lead to further human rights violations by the SPDC. Transparency and accountability ...

Report       ASA 16/013/2008

Video: Sixty years of human rights failure | Amnesty International
27 May 2008

Amnesty International has challenged world leaders to apologize forsix decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliverconcrete improvements.

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South-East Asia: Open letter to the Association of Southeast Asian ...
16 May 2008

In this open letter to ASEAN member states, Amnesty International warns that without immediate action by ASEAN leaders, the humanitarian disaster created by Cyclone ...

Document       ASA 03/002/2008

Asian governments urged to pressure Myanmar | Amnesty ...
13 May 2008

As hold-ups continue in the supply of foreign aid to Myanmar, Asianleaders have been urged to pressure the country's military rulers intotaking swift action to

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Myanmar: Cyclone relief -- Asian governments must insist on swift ...
12 May 2008

Leaders of Amnesty International in Asia Pacific, meetingin Hong Kong, called on their governments to use every means possibleto pressure the Myanmar authorities ...

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Myanmar: Constitutional referendum flouts human rights
9 May 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. BRIEFING PAPER. AI Index: ASA 16/010/2008. News Service: 086/08. For release: 09.00 GMT, 9 May 2008. Myanmar: Constitutional ...

Document       ASA 16/010/2008

Myanmar: Cooperate with international community to ensure ...
7 May 2008

Following the impact of Cyclone Nargis on Myanmar, which killed tens ofthousands of people and displaced around a million more, AmnestyInternational is calling

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Time to release Aung San Suu Kyi | Amnesty International
25 March 2008

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the best-known of more than 1850 known political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Myanmar.

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Myanmar: Fear of Torture or ill treatment / Health
21 February 2008

Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung, both journalists working for the weekly journal ‘Myanmar Nation’, were arrested on 15 February 2008. It is believed they are being ...

Urgent Action       ASA 16/005/2008

Myanmar: Further information on Health concern/ Fear of torture or ...
20 February 2008

Htay Kywe, Mie Mie, Aung Thu and Zaw Htet Ko Ko are believed to have been charged on 23 January 2008 with breaking a vaguely worded security law. They are being ...

Urgent Action       ASA 16/003/2008