The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has awarded their 2021 International Press Freedom Award to Burmese journalist Aye Chain Naing, who is the co-founder, chief editor, and executive director of Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). DVB is an independent broadcast media group that began reporting in exile in 1992 and moved to Burma in 2012 to become the country’s first independent…
Join our Steering Committee Chair, Jose Ramos-Horta, and other democracy advocates around the world in showing support for Burmese human rights activists by posting a video using the hashtag #PotsandpansforMyanmar on social media. In traditional Burmese culture, banging pots & pans was a way to drive away evil spirits, and so every evening a racket of banging can be heard across…
FORUM-ASIA released a joint statement with over 100 human rights organizations to denounce Myanmar’s recent military coup and called on the military to free all democratically elected leaders. It also outlined concrete steps such as restoring the country’s internet and asking the UN Security Council to convene an emergency meeting. The statement pointed out “how the military has…
Civil Rights Defenders joined nine other human rights organizations in calling on Burmese authorities to end legal proceedings against student activists and other individuals involved in recent peaceful assembly activities. They also called for the immediate release of student activists that are being detained for their involvement in recent protests, which called attention to human rights violations…