UK insurance companies helping Myanmar’s brutal regime

UK underwriters ‘helping Myanmar’s brutal regime’
Teak Door, Burmese weekly
Monday July 28, 2008
By Nick Mathiason
The London insurance connection propping up the murderous Myanmar military dictatorship can be revealed in a development that will acutely embarrass leading City of London figures.
Three Lloyd’s of London operators will be named as helping to insure the junta’s state-owned airline [...]

Call to Charge Burma Junta with War Crimes of Rape

 
Posted on Jun 24, 2008
The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) welcomes the unanimous adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1820 on sexual violence during the Council’s debate on 19 June 2008. WLB believes that this historic resolution gives hope to women around the world and in Burma in particular for justice.
 

Human rights laws tied to domestic governance, says Najib

By SHAILA KOSHY
KUALA LUMPUR: Government officials who lack understanding of Malaysia’s regional and international human rights obligations must attend human rights training, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak yesterday.
“There is an erroneous perception on the part of some administration officials that international human rights laws have no relation to domestic governance,” said [...]

Saffron Revolution Muslim students sent to labor camps

Saffron Revolution Muslim students sent to labor camps

 
Courtesy: AAPPB Press Release

This week 10 young students were each sentenced to 2 years imprisonment at Kyauktada Township Court. They had participated in last September’s Saffron Revolution and were arrested in October due to their involvement.
AAPP has learned that after they were sentenced, they were placed in iron [...]