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Procedures relating to the Union of Myanmar Foreign Investment Law - SLORC Notification No. 11/88 (English)

Legislation & Policies
December, 1988
Myanmar

This document includes the forms used in the procedure...Procedures relating to the Union of Myanmar Foreign Investment Law -
The Government of the Union of Myanmar Notification No. 11/88 -
The 14th waning day of Tazaungmon, I350 B.E
(7 December 1988)

Peace Villages and Hiding Villages: Roads, Relocations, and the Campaign for Control in Toungoo District

Reports & Research
October, 2000
Myanmar

Roads, Relocations, and the Campaign for Control in Toungoo District. Based on interviews and field reports from KHRG field researchers in this northern Karen district, looks at the phenomenon of 'Peace Villages' under SPDC control and 'Hiding Villages' in the hills; while the 'Hiding Villages' are being systematically destroyed and their villagers hunted and captured, the 'Peace Villages' face so many demands for forced labour and extortion that many ofthem are fleeing to the hills.

The politics of the emerging agro-industrial complex in Asia’s ‘final frontier’ - The war on food sovereignty in Burma

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2013
Myanmar

Burma's dramatic turn-around from 'axis of evil' to western darling in the past year has been imagined as Asia's 'final frontier' for global finance institutions, markets and capital. Burma's agrarian landscape is home to three-fourths of the country's total population which is now being constructed as a potential prime investment sink for domestic and international agribusiness.

CHR 2003: Myanmar: Thousands of people are displaced and starving

Reports & Research
April, 2003
Myanmar

Commission on Human Rights
59th Session

Item 10: Economic, social and cultural rights

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It is in the remote parts of Myanmar that the worst abuses of the right to food continue. Within recent weeks, the Asian Legal Resource Centre has spoken with persons travelling in some of these areas. They have told of thousands of people displaced from their lands, some for years, starving in the jungle. One who carried an emaciated child to a Thai town just across the border spoke of the utter shock and disbelief among medical staff at the child?s condition...

Joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review

Reports & Research
February, 2015
Myanmar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: •This joint submission by the Coalition of Indigenous Peoples in Myanmar/Burma focuses on
the collective rights of indigenous peoples, particularly the thematic areas of land,
territories, and natural resources, development, and language and cultural rights, with
militarization, self-determination, and free, prior
and informed consent (FPIC) as cross-cutting issues. •Section A describes the context of indigenous peoples in Myanmar/Burma. It highlights the