UNHCR aids Myanmar cyclone victims

Jun 10, 2008 | Latest

By air and by road, The UN refugee agency has sent in tonnes of shelter materials to help the estimated one million people made homeless by cyclone Nargis.  

Tin Soe: Striving for democracy in Myanmar

Jun 4, 2008 | Latest

Features News – Wednesday, June 04, 2008 A. Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, JakartaTin Soe knows how difficult it is to be a minority Burmese Muslim — suffering discrimination and insecurity — as well as a journalist working in an authoritarian country...

A Case for Crimes against Humanity

Jun 3, 2008 | Latest

By WAI MOE The Burmese military regime’s failure to respond effectively to Cyclone Nargis, its refusal to allow foreign relief workers access to the affected areas and its forcible eviction of refugees from shelters and health facilities amounts to crimes...
UNHCR’s double standards

UNHCR’s double standards

Jun 3, 2008 | Latest

Udatta Bikash, Human Rights Practitioner, Dhaka Photo: www.msf.org. The UN Refugee agency, UNHCR has been playing a discriminatory role against the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh.The agency has been supporting around 30,000 Rohingya refugees staying in...

ARNO President Nurul Islam visits OIC

May 29, 2008 | Latest

Mr. Nurul Islam, President of the Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) and Mr. Harn Yawanghwe, the Director of the National Reconciliation Program of the Union of Burma (NRP) and Director of the Euro-Burma Office in Brussels, visited the OIC on May 12, 2008...

MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE

May 26, 2008 | ARNO Programs

  General Secretary and leaders Karen National Union   Date: 24 May 2006   MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE   We are shocked at the sudden demise of the great leader Phado Saw Ba Thein Sein, the Chairman of the KNU, NDF and ENC. It is not only a loss for the...