Foreign investment in Burma helps the dictatorship earn millions of dollars each year. However, some EU governments, such as Germany, Austria and Italy, have favoured relaxing sanctions.
Write to the British Foreign Secretary and ask him to maintain support for targeted sanctions and make sure there is no relaxation of EU sanctions without genuine change in Burma.
Reports
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 are defying one of the country’s most powerful tycoons as his company establishes massive mono-crop plantations in what happens to…
Insuring Repression
Exposing how the insurance industry supports Burma’s dictators
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 Common Position renewed April 2010 (PDF Format)
10.05.2010 Commission Regulation (EU) No 411/2010 Amended Council Regulation (EC) No 194/2008. (PDF Format)
10.05.2010 Commission Regulation (EU) No 411/2010 Amended Council Regulation (EC) No 194/2008. (PDF Format)
Click here for previous EU Common Position
Briefings
EU & Burma, Briefing and recommendations - March 2008 (PDF Format)
A Short Briefing on Sanctions
Sanctions Coalition Briefing
Evidence to the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission Burma Hearing
EU & Burma - The Case for Targeted Sanctions (PDF Format)
The Burmese Dictatorship by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The Dirty List
In response to calls from Burma’s democracy movement, the Burma Campaign UK and other campaign groups around the world have been pressuring companies to sever business ties with Burma.
Please contact one or more of the companies on the Dirty List and ask them to cut their ties with Burma’s military government. If appropriate, tell them you will not purchase their products as long as they continue to support the regime in Burma.
You can view the full Dirty List with contact details here.
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The Dirty List with company contact details
- TUC calls for Barclays to come clean on Burma
- Barclays Must Disclose Business Dealings With Burma
- European Union Extends Burma Sanctions and Calls on Regime to Stop Breaking International Law
- UK Government: ‘Tangible Progress’ Needed Before EU Eases Burma Sanctions
- New EU ‘Foreign Minister’ Must Support, Not Undermine, EU Foreign Policy
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