Burma continues to be one of the world’s largest prisons for journalists, according to a media watchdog that warns of a global increase in the jailing of freelance media workers. (more…)

Gearing up for the junta declared 2010 elections in Burma, an ethnic Kachin political party has opened 10 branch offices in main cities in Kachin State, said party sources. (more…)

Yangon – Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan met trainees of Journalism Course No. 3/2009 conducted by Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association at its hall on the second floor of Sarpay Beikman Building on Merchant Street, here, yesterday. (more…)

Burma’s 2010 elections will prolong poverty and violence against women and should not be supported by the international community, an exiled Burmese women’s rights group said. (more…)

Oslo — President Barack Obama says lasting peace requires human rights and economic opportunity for individuals, and sanctions against regimes that violate international rules. (more…)

New Delhi – On International Human Rights Day, 442 Members of Parliament from 29 countries on Thursday urged the United Nations Security Council to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the Burmese military junta’s ‘Crimes against Humanity’. (more…)

As a tribute to freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi, an empty chair is kept open at each meeting of The Elders, a group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to support peace and dialogue. Aung San Suu Kyi’s campaign for democracy in Burma led to her arrest by its military government, which has kept her detained for 14 of the past 20 years. She is the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient. (more…)

In accepting his Nobel Peace Prize today, President Obama must walk a tightrope between honoring his policy of seeking a dialogue with repressive regimes and trumpeting the ideals of freedom embodied by such past Nobel laureates as Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. (more…)

The Fiance of Burmese-American activist Nyi Nyi Aung describes hearing of how he was snatched on a visit back to his homeland, then tortured ahead of his trial. (more…)

Some NLD members are voicing cautious optimism about negotiations between the Burmese junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, following the third meeting in three months between her and the junta’s liaison officer, Aung Kyi, on Wednesday. (more…)

Today is International Human Rights Day. This year, the Burmese military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), continued to commit widespread and systematic human rights abuses against its own people with total impunity. Military offensives against ethnic nationalities in Eastern Burma’s Shan and Karen states forced 37,000 civilians to flee to China and more than 6000 to Thailand in the past six months alone. (more…)

From the hills outside Mandalay, Burma’s second city, the vista resembles a postcard of Asian serenity. Monks climb stone steps to a hillside shrine, where local men and women leave offerings of flowers and fruit. But the placid scene conceals one of the most repressive states in the world–a state that the Obama administration has decided may be more worthy of American friendship than American threats. (more…)

Tokyo and Washington, DC – Tokyo-based “BurmaInfo,” “People’s Forum on Burma,” and Washington, DC-based “U.S. Campaign for Burma” today welcome the call of 442Members of Parliament (MPs) around the world to the United Nations Security Council to establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate crimes against humanity and other war crimes in Burma, as well as to impose a global arms embargo on Burma’s military regime. (more…)

Rangoon, Burma December 10, 2009 marks the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On this auspicious day, on behalf of the people of Burma who have been oppressed and brutalized by the successive military regime since 1962, we, the All Burma Monks’ Alliance, 88 Generation Students, and All Burma Federation of Student Unions, submit the following message to the attention of the United Nations and the international community: (more…)