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Links
Burma Organisations Worldwide
- Australia Campaign for Burma
- Campaign for Burma
Austria
- Austrian Burma Center
- Actions Birmanie
- Canadian Friends of Burma
- Burma Center Prague
- People in Need
Denmark
- Danish Burma Committee
- Campaign for Democracy in Burma (Finland)
- Finnish Burma Committee
Email contact: ojasti@kaapeli.fiFrance - Info Birmanie
- Burma Aktion
- Burma Initiative Germany
- Burma Bureau Germany
Indonesia
- Democracy for Burma
- English
- Burmese
Ireland
- Burma Action Ireland
- Birmania Democratica
- Burma Info
- Burmese Migrants Welfare Organization
Email contact: minnkyaw@my.wgu.edu,minnkyaw@burmaoffice.org - Burma Centrum Netherlands
- New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
- The Burma Campaign New Zealand
Norway
- Norwegian Burma Committee
- Initiatives for International Dialogue
- Polish Burma Solidarity
- Associação de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos
Email contact: rrts@yahoo.com or valdas@netcabo.pt - NLD support group email contact:NLD_SG@hotmail.com
- FBC-SA
- Birmania por la Paz
- Swedish Burma Committee
- Association Suisse-Birmanie
- All Burma Federation of Student Unions (Foreign Affairs Committee)
- Burma Partnership
- Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma
UK
- Burma Campaign UK
- Burma Campaign UK on YouTube
- Burma Campaign UK on Facebook
- Burmese Democratic Movement Association - UK
- National League for Democracy (NLD) Liberated area UK Branch
United States
- United States Campaign for Burma
Exiled Government
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- Altsean
Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma
- Amnesty International
- Amnesty International Crimes against Humanity in Eastern Burma report
- Article 19
Global campaign for freedom of expression
- Assistance Association for Political Prisoners - Burma
Documents and disseminates information on the real situation of political prisoners in Burma and provides assistance to the families of prisoners.
- EarthRights International
EarthRights International's Burma Project collects on-the-ground information about the human rights and environmental situation in Burma.
- Free Burma Rangers
The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) provide humanitarian assistance to ethnic groups affected by conflict and oppression at the hands of Burma’s military regime.
- Free Burma’s Political Prisoners Now
Campaign to free all of Burma's political prisoners
- Human Rights Treaties ratified by Burma
Compiled by the University of Minnesota
- Human Rights Watch - Burma page
Reports on Burma the human right situation in Burma.
- International Labour Organisation: Report on Forced Labour in Burma
- Landmine Monitor Report: Burma 2009
- Reporters without Borders
Annual report on press freedom in Burma.
- The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Myanmar (Burma) information
- US State Department report on human rights in Burma
2009 Human Rights Report
- Witness
Uses video and technology for human rights
News and Information
- BBC Burmese
- Burmadaily
News from Burma
- Burmanet
Coverage of news and opinion on Burma from around the world
- CIA World Factbook - Burma
Facts and figures about Burma from the United States Central Intelligence Agency
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi pages
Website about Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Democratic Voice of Burma
Norway based exiled media station with online news and videos. Broadcasts radio and TV into Burma.
- Development Gateway
Resources on development projects and a country snapshot of aid activities funded by major bilateral and multilateral donors in Burma.
- Human Security Gateway
The Human Security Gateway is a rapidly expanding searchable online database of human security-related resources including reports, journal articles, news items and fact sheets.
- Inside Burma - Land of Fear
Information on the documentary by John Pilger
- Inside Burma - Land of Fear
Watch the video on Google Video
- Mizzima
English version: Online newspaper which specialises in Burma related news and multimedia
- Mizzima
Burmese version : Online newspaper which specialises in Burma related news and multimedia
- News Statesman special issue on Burma (Jun 08)
- Online Burma Library
Classified and annotated links to more than 15,000 full text documents on Burma/Myanmar
- Rebound 88
Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in Burma
- The Irrawaddy News Magazine
Online magazine covering Burma and Asia
Environment
- Burma Rivers Network
- EarthRights International
EarthRights International's Burma Project collects on-the-ground information about the human rights and environmental situation in Burma.
- Karen Rivers Watch
- Living River Siam
Works to support local community rights to their rivers, and to oppose threats to rivers and river ecosystems in Thailand, the Mekong, and Salween River Basins, such as large dams and water diversion projects.
- Project Maje
- Salween watch
A coalition of organizations and NGOs that work on Burma-related and environmental issues. It was set up with the primary aim of preventing the building of harmful hydroelectric power dams on the Salween River.
- Shwe Gas Movement
A campaign site documenting the Shwe Gas project.
Business and Economy
- Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia
A statement on business involvement in Burma by institutional investors that collectively have £400 billion in funds under management.
- Burma Economic Watch
A periodical that aims to provide up-to-date and reliable data , analysis and commentary on the economy of Burma.
- Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Aims to track the positive and negative impacts of over 4000 companies worldwide
- Global Unions: Companies linked to Burma
A database compiled by the ITUC and the Global Union Federations, based on publicly available information indicating that companies have business links with Burma.
- Salween watch
A coalition of organizations and NGOs that work on Burma-related and environmental issues. It was set up with the primary aim of preventing the building of harmful hydroelectric power dams on the Salween River.
- SEEcompanies.com
A forum in which businesses set out their social, environmental and ethical (SEE)
- Shwe Gas Movement
A campaign site documenting the Shwe Gas project.
Health
- AIDS, TB, Malaria and Bird Flu spread unchecked in Burma
Report on how diseases pose threat to regional and global health
- Back Pack Health Worker Team
- Development Gateway
Resources on development projects and a country snapshot of aid activities funded by major bilateral and multilateral donors in Burma.
- Global Health Facts
Facts on various health indicators including, People Living with HIV/AIDS in Burma, New TB Cases, Malaria Cases, Malaria Deaths and Adult HIV/AIDS Prevalence Rate (2007)
- HIV Information for Myanmar (HIM)
HIV information for Burma
- Mae Tao Clinic (Dr Cynthia’s clinic)
The Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), founded and directed by Dr. Cynthia Maung, provides free health care for refugees, migrant workers, and other individuals who cross the border from Burma to Thailand.
- Three Diseases Fund
To help reducing human suffering caused by TB, Malaria and HIV and AIDS in Burma.
Cultural and Historical
- Art-Exiled
Art from Burmese artists in exile
- Burmese Hip Hop
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi pages
Website about Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Exile Images: Photography
- Free Aung San Suu Kyi
Journalism, art and literature about Aung San Suu Kyi
- Grace under Pressure
Images of Burma.
- Kalama Sutta
A documentary in which a trip to Burma is transformed into a meditation on human rights and media.
- Karen guerillas
Photos of Karen State
- Shwe Dream
Burmese Music.
Ethnic Groups
- Chin Forum
- Chin Human Rights Organization
Chin Human Rights Organization is working to protect and promote the rights of the Chin people.
- Chin National Front (CNF)
The Chin National Front (CNF) was formed on 20 March, 1988, dedicated to securing the self-determination of the Chin people, to restore democracy, and to establish federal Union of Burma.
- Kuki Forum (KIF)
Kuki Forum (KIF)
- Kachin News
- Kachin Post
The Kachin Post is an independent media organization and it stands for Kachin National interest in the principles of democracy and human rights.
- Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
The empowerment and advancement of Kachin women in order to improve the lives of women and children in Kachin society.
- Karen National Union
- Phan Foundation
Founded in memory of Padoh Mahn Sha, the General Secretary of the Karen National Union. Has four main objectives: to alleviate poverty, to provide education, to promote human rights and to protect Karen culture.
- Karen Women Organisation
A community-based organisation of Karen women working in development and relief in the refugee camps on the Thai border and with IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) and women inside Burma.
- Kawthoolei
Provide contemporary news, views and perspectives by and about the Karen people.
- Drum Publications
Provides educational material in Burmese, English and Karen. Drum Publication Group is a small independent community based organization dedicated to promoting education and preserving the cultures of the peoples of Burma.
- Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) is a small and independent group documenting the human rights situation in rural Burma.
- Karenni Students Union (KSU)
- Karenni Homeland
Karenni Homeland
- Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
- Kaowao Newsgroup
Activists and journalists committed to addressing pressing issues of Burma and its indigenous heritage formed the Kaowao Newsgroup in November 2001.
- Arakan Rohingya National Organization
- Burmese Rohingya Organisation
Burmese Rohingya Organisation (BROUK)
- Rohingya Burma’s Forgotten Minority
A report by Refugees International
- Rohingyas, the Forgotten People
An ABC documentary
- The Rohingya Minority
A report by Amnesty International (2004)
- Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN)
- Shan Herald Agency for News
Shan Herald Agency for News
Women
- Burmese Women’s Union
Burmese Women's Union (BWU) work for the rights of women, to increase women's participation in the Burmese political arena and to provide much-needed support for women in the refugee camps along the borders of Burma.
- Karenni National Women’s Organization
KNWO is a community-based organization that looks after the wellbeing of disadvantaged Karenni people caught in armed conflict.
- WEAVE - Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment
- Women’s League of Burma
Aims to work for women's empowerment and advancement of the status of women, and to work for the increased participation of women in all spheres of society in the democracy movement, and in peace and national reconciliation processes through capacity building, advocacy, research and documentation.
- Women’s League of Chinland
Focuses on building capacity of Chin Women through workshops, training programs, safe houses and income generation of. Promotes women participation in politics through lobbying and advocacy campaigns regionally and internationally.
Refugees and IDPs
- Burma Border Projects (BBP)
A non-profit, charitable foundation established to support and augment existing relief efforts along the Burma-Thailand border.
- Burma Children Medical Fund (BCMF)
A program dedicated to raising money for children from Burma with serious medical problems who are disadvantaged as a result of the Burmese regime.
- Burma Diaspora
Video footage of the Karen and the situation in Eastern Burma.
- Free Burma Rangers
The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) provide humanitarian assistance to ethnic groups affected by conflict and oppression at the hands of Burma’s military regime.
- Help without Frontiers
Aims to alleviate the suffering of Burmese refugees who have flee their homeland because of regime brutality.
- http://www.helfenohnegrenzen.de/
Helfe Ohne Grenzen
A German relief organisation for refugees on the Thai/Burma border. - Karenni Student Development Program (KSDP)
Providing aid for Karenni refugees on the Thai/Burma border
- Latest IDP figure for Burma - Internal Displacement Monitoring Group
Established in 1998 by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), is the leading international body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide.
- Living Water Center
A Thai charity providing education to Burmese refugees.
- Mae Tao Clinic (Dr Cynthia’s clinic)
The Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), founded and directed by Dr. Cynthia Maung, provides free health care for refugees, migrant workers, and other individuals who cross the border from Burma to Thailand.
- Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC)
TBBC is a consortium of 12 international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from ten countries providing food, shelter and non food items to refugees and displaced people from Burma.
- WEAVE - Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment
Students and Education
- All Burma Federation of Student Unions (Foreign Affairs Committee)
- All Burma Students’ Democratic Front
- Burma Education Partnership (BEP)
A British educational charity supporting a range of initiatives involving communities affected by war, oppression and economic hardship in Burma.
- Human Rights Education Institute of Burma
Aims to empower Burmese people through human rights education to engage in social transformation and promote a culture of human rights for all.
- Living Water Center
A Thai charity providing education to Burmese refugees.
- Prospect Burma
Aims to invest in the democratic future of Burma through its young people.
Trade Unions
- Federation of Trade Unions - Burma
- Global Unions: Companies linked to Burma
A database compiled by the ITUC and the Global Union Federations, based on publicly available information indicating that companies have business links with Burma.
- International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Aims to promote and defend workers’ rights and interests, through international cooperation between trade unions, global campaigning and advocacy within the major global institutions.
Burmese Military Regime
- New Light of Myanmar
The Regime's newspaper in English and Burmese.
- The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) website
A regularly updated website with links to other regime websites.
Documentaries and Videos
- BeCause Foundation
BeCause Foundation drives social change through the powerful fusion of documentary filmmaking and related strategic programs.
- Burma Campaign UK’s YouTube channel.
Watch the best Burma videos from across the web at Burma Campaign UK's YouTube channel.
- Burma Diaspora
Video footage of the Karen and the situation in Eastern Burma.
- Burma VJ
Burma VJ is a documentary that traces the 2007 uprising in Burma by telling the story of the undercover video journalists (VJs) that recorded the uprising and the subsequent brutal crackdown.
- Eyes to Burma
About Burma crisis and the problems resulting from the crisis.
- Inside Burma - Land of Fear
Information on the documentary by John Pilger
- Inside Burma - Land of Fear
Watch the video on Google Video
- Kalama Sutta
A documentary in which a trip to Burma is transformed into a meditation on human rights and media.
- Moving to Mars
Moving to Mars follows two refugee families from Burma over the course of a year that will change their lives completely.
- The Hub, by Witness.
The web's first video site promoting Human Rights. Through the Hub, individuals, organizations, networks and groups around the world are able to bring their human rights stories and campaigns to global attention and to mobilize action to protect and promote human rights.
Other
- Christian Solidarity Worldwide
A human rights organisation which specialises in religious freedom, works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs and promotes religious liberty for all.
- Conservative Party Human Rights Commission
The Conservative Party Human Rights Group is a body established to highlight international human rights concerns, and to inform, advise and develop the party’s foreign policy by making human rights a priority.
- Vale Earth Fair
Annual festival which helps raise funds for The Burma Campaign UK
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