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Human Rights Report

The State of Human Rights in Myanmar in the years:

2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

ALRC News

BURMA: Council warned of new challenges and a lack of progress concerning the protection of human rights - 2012-03-21
BURMA: Bar councils exhorted to support Burmese lawyers - 2011-12-23
MYANMAR: Appeal to review cases of 32 lawyers disbarred for political reasons - 2011-12-22
BURMA: ALRC endorses call on rule of law - 2011-04-29
BURMA: Regional group urges U.N. experts on torture case - 2011-01-05
BURMA: Dossier of torture cases submitted to U.N. experts - 2010-08-27
BURMA: Un-rule of law and corruption deny rights, U.N. told - 2011-06-24
MYANMAR: Addressing torture, corruption and justice delivery must be a priority for the UN - 2011-03-16
BURMA: Torture of detainees in Myanmar - 2011-02-26
BURMA: Effects of endemic corruption in Myanmar's courts on rights of citizens - 2011-02-25

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ALRC Submissions to the Human Rights Council:

s.20 (June 2012) - MYANMAR: Torture, forced confession and a death sentence in Myanmar: the case of Phyo Wai Aung
s.20 (June 2012) - MYANMAR: Myanmar at risk of land-grabbing epidemic
s.20 (June 2012) - MYANMAR: Justice trade obstructing human rights in Myanmar
s.18 (September 2011) - MYANMAR: From blinkered to enlightened despotism: human rights in Myanmar under new government
s.17 (June 2011) - MYANMAR: UPR outcome lacking substance and hope for effective implementation
s.16 (March 2011) - MYANMAR: Addressing torture, corruption and justice delivery must be a priority for the UN
s.16 (March 2011) - MYANMAR: UPR as an exercise in the making of fiction: An analysis of the presentation by Myanmar
s.16 (March 2011) - MYANMAR: The problem of a U.N. member state disconnected from a normative framework: Myanmar and the Human Rights Council review
s.16 (March 2011) - MYANMAR: Council urged to take strong, relevant action to address grave rights abuses

ALRC Submissions to the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism

session 10 in 2010: [PDF-en] [Annex PDF-en]

> previous HRC

Interviews

BURMA: Burmese lawyer shares his point of view on habeas corpus and related issues - May 3, 2011
BIRMANIE: Point de vue d’un avocat sur la conduite de la justice - January 12, 2011
BURMA: Burmese lawyer shares his point of view on current situation of the Burmese judges and lawyers and related issues- January 12, 2011

Torture in Burma

Anecdotal evidence is that torture is endemic although it is not possible to document and report systematically due to prevailing conditions in the country. Torture and cruel and inhuman treatment or punishment occurs in both political and ordinary criminal cases as well as in other settings, and is practiced by the police, military intelligence officers, soldiers, prisons officers, and executive officers (such as council officials) acting in a policing capacity.

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