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Reports
The European Union Must Not Abandon Human Rights Benchmarks
Burma Briefing No. 22
The European Union is currently reviewing its policy on Burma, including whether to continue with the suspension of EU sanctions, or to lift them altogether. A …
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Losing Ground
A report by Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Reports of business and development projects in eastern Burma have increased substantially in the wake of government reforms and the ceasefire signed …
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Danger Zone
This report by Arakan Oil Watch exposes how a planned Chinese industrial zone is threatening the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people in Arakan State as well as Burma’s …
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Lost Paradise
Women urge halt to expansion of damaging Karenni tin mines
A report by the Molo Women Mining Watch Network
The Mawchi tin mines have inflicted decades of environmental and social …
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Pipeline Nightmare
A report by The Ta’ang Students and Youth Organization (TSYO)
Shwe Pipeline Brings Land Confiscation, Militarization and Human Rights Violations to the Ta’ang People.
“Pipeline Nightmare” illustrates how the Shwe …
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Report on the Human Rights Situation in Burma
ND-Burma Periodic Report underlines human rights abuses in Burma, with focus on land confiscation
This report from The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) documents the human rights …
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Not Open for business: Despite elections, investor risk remains high in Burma
The elections on April 1 2012 have been heralded as a great success. However, Not Open for Business highlights the fact that high levels of risk for investors – and …
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Burma’s Resource Curse
This report from Arakan Oil Watch reveals how billions of dollars in revenues from the sale of natural gas have gone unrecorded in Burma’s public accounts and been siphoned off …
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Germany and Burma – Business before human rights
Burma Briefing No. 13
Commentary on an article published on 20th June 2011 in the Financial Times by Markus Loening, Germany’s federal commissioner for human rights policy.
It is rare …
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ORDERED OUT: The costs of building Burma’s Upper Paunglaung Dam
A report from the Kayan New Generation Youth reveals how military authorities in Burma have ordered 8,000 people to move from their homes in preparation for a hydroelectric dam being …
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What Next For EU Burma Policy?
Burma Briefing No. 9
The European Union has a common foreign policy on Burma, known as a Common Decision. The Common Decision currently has to be renewed every April. EU …
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Poison Clouds
Lessons from Burma’s largest coal project at Tigyit
This report by local Pa-Oh researchers, exposes how up to two thousand tons of lignite, the most polluting type of coal, are …
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The European Union and Burma
Updated 13 April 2011
Burma Briefing No. 4
This briefing examines how the European Union, one of the most powerful political and economic blocs in the world, has so far …
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Tyrants, Tycoons and Tigers: Yuzana Company Ravages Burma’s Hugawng Valley
Report by The Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG).
A bitter land struggle is unfolding in northern Burma’s remote Hugawng Valley. Farmers that have been living for generations in the valley …
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Resisting the Flood: Communities stand up against Chinese dams on Burma’s Irrawaddy
A report by Kachin Development Network Group about recent dam construction and forced relocation in northern Kachin State. China Power Investment is planning a series of seven dams on the …
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Roots and Resilience English
The Tasang dam, the largest planned for the trans-national Salween River, will submerge 870 kilometers in the heartland of Shan State, Burma. The dam is located in the midst of …
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Laid Waste: Human Rights along the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay gas pipeline
Report by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) to promote human rights abuses along a 1,200 mile pipeline raised the prospect of further abuses on a far wider scale. …
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Insuring Repression
Exposing how the insurance industry supports Burma’s dictators
Drowning the Green Ghosts
A report by Kayan Women’s Union reveals how the Upper Paunglaung Dam, being built with Chinese investment, has increased forced labour and other abuses for local villagers.
The Human Cost Of Energy
Earthrights international documents the continuing human rights abuses occurring on the Yadana project, a joint project between TOTAL, Chevron and the Burmese regime.
Pro-Aid, Pro-Sanctions, Pro-Engagement
Position paper by pro-democracy organisations detailing policy on humanitarian assistance to Burma.
Sanctions Information
EU Common Position
EU Council Conclusions April 2013(PDF Format)
Council conclusions on Burma, 23 April 2012 (PDF Format)
Council Decision 12 April 2011 renewing restrictive measures against Burma (PDF Format)
EU Council Conclusions April 2011 (PDF Format)
EU Council Conclusions April 2010 (PDF Format)
10.05.2010 Commission Regulation (EU) No 411/2010 Amended Council Regulation (EC) No 194/2008. (PDF Format)
11.05.2010 Council Regulation (EU) No 408/2010 Amended Council Regulation (EC) No 194/2008. (PDF Format)
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US Sanctions
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