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Wednesday, June 5, 2019

To Guarantee the Erga Omnes Right to Return Back of the Myanmar Refugees

change.org
04.06.2019

Complaint Procedure Unit

Human Rights Council

Branch Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

United Nations Office at Geneva

CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

The Responsibility of the Human Rights Council to Guarantee the Erga Omnes Right to Return Back of the Ethnic and Religious Refugee Minorities of Myanmar Including the Next Generations

This petition is given under the General Assembly Resolution 53/144 of 8 March 1999, "Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms" and Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007, “Institution-building of the United Nations Human Rights Council” on the “de facto” statelessness situation of the Myanmar minorities and in order to guarantee their erga omnes right to return back to Myanmar.

SoCal Rabbi Advocates for Human Rights in Washington, D.C.

JEWISH JOURNAL

BY Erin Ben-Moche | Mar 15, 2019

Rabbi Zari Sussman of Temple Sholom in Ontario, Calif. was among 28 American rabbis and social justice advocates who traveled to Washington, D.C., this week urging officials to take action on human rights issues.

UN Special Rapporteur expresses alarm at escalating conflict in Myanmar.

By agency reporter

JANUARY 22, 2019

The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar has expressed alarm at the escalating violence in northern and central Rakhine State and Chin State, and called on all sides to exercise restraints in use of force and to ensure the protection of civilians.

Since November 2018 the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, and Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic armed organisation, have been engaged in heavy fighting, resulting in deaths and injuries to civilians. At least 5,000 people have been displaced from their homes.

Foreign Ministry continues ban on UN Special Rapporteur Lee.

NYAN LYNN AUNG 15 JAN 2019,

THE government said it would not rescind its ban on UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee from entering Myanmar, despite her recent request, a Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

Reuters journalists challenge conviction under Myanmar state secrets act

"THE WASHINGTON POST"
By Cape Diamond and Timothy McLaughlin
January 11

YANGON, Myanmar — A court in Myanmar is set to rule Friday in the appeal of two Reuters journalists jailed last year for violating the country’s colonial-era secrets law in a case that drew widespread condemnation from rights groups, foreign governments and media watchdogs as an attack on the free press.

NLD needs to seize the moment, analysts say.

EI EI TOE LWIN 11 JAN 2019

The government led by theNational League for Democracy (NLD) is half-way through its five-year term and there is a big question on whether the NLD and its leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi are on the right track amidst a humanitarian crisis in northern Rakhine, the moribund peace process, the sluggish economy and what some perceive as failure to uphold free speech and the rule of law.