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Stopping the Terror Trade: How human rights rules in an arms trade ...
5 October 2009

An effective Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) should be one that helps to protect lives, livelihoods and rights. The treaty should protect the ability of states to lawfully ...

Report       ACT 30/006/2009

Myanmar: Jailed activist denied vital medical treatment: Robert ...
28 September 2009

Imprisoned pro-democracy activist Robert San Aung is in need of urgent medical attention: he has lost the sight in one eye since he was moved to the north-western ...

Urgent Action       ASA 16/007/2009

Myanmar: US Citizen Tortured in Yangon
24 September 2009

Trusted sources have reported to Amnesty international that male activist Kyaw Zaw Lwin was tortured and suffered other ill-treatment whilst in detention in Insein ...

Urgent Action       ASA 16/006/2009

Myanmar: Burmese human rights activist arrested: Kyaw Zaw Lwin ...
11 September 2009

Kyaw Zaw Lwin (also known as Nyi Nyi Aung), a male Burmese human rights activist who works for the Thai-based campaign group, Forum for Democracy in Burma, was ...

Urgent Action       ASA 16/005/2009

Amnesty International | Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is Amnesty ...
27 July 2009

Amnesty International today announced that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is being awarded its most prestigious honour – the “Ambassador of Conscience” Award f.

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MYANMAR: URGENT HEALTH CONCERNS OF PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
13 May 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: ASA 16/004/2009. 13 May 2009. MYANMAR: URGENT HEALTH CONCERNS OF PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE. ...

Document       ASA 16/004/2009

Myanmar: Health concern/Fear of torture or other ill-treatment ...
6 May 2009

Popular comedian Zarganar, who has been imprisoned since June 2008 for helping survivors of Cyclone Nargis, is in urgent need of medical attention for his various ...

Urgent Action       ASA 16/003/2009

Myanmar: Health concern/ Fear of torture or ill-treatment ...
26 March 2009

Pro-democracy activists and prisoners of conscience, Hla Myo Naung and Min Ko Naing are in need of urgent and proper medical treatment. Hla Myo Naung is in danger ...

Urgent Action       ASA 16/002/2009

Myanmar minority group in peril | Amnesty International
2 February 2009

Hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya people are missing at sea and many moreare at risk of drowning after Thai authorities forcibly expelled largegroups of Rohingyas

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The Wire, February/March 2009. Vol. 39, issue 001
1 February 2009

1) International Women's Day: Women make history 2) International Women's Day: 'I had to stay quiet…' Sexual violence during Haiti carnival 3) Livewire: Accounts ...

Document       NWS 21/001/2009