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Myanmar-Burmese Centers (redirected from Myanmarese-Burmese Centers)

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Myanmar/Burmese Centers

 

Known Centers based in Myanmar/Burma

If your center is not in this list and you want to be added, please contact HURIGHTS OSAKA and we will assist you.


 

The Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB)

 

Year Established: 2013

 

Short Historical Background

 
The  Myanmar  Centre  for  Responsible  Business  (MCRB)  is  a  Myanmar-based  initiative that was  established  in  2013 to encourage responsible business activities throughout Myanmar. It is a joint initiative of the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) and the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR).

Objectives

 
MCRB aims to provide a trusted and impartial platform for  the  creation  of  knowledge,  building  of  capacity,  undertaking  of  advocacy  and  promotion  of  dialogue  amongst businesses, civil society, governments, experts and other stakeholders with the objective of encouraging responsible business conduct throughout Myanmar. It organizes dialogues, seminars, and briefings to relevant parties as well as access to international expertise and tools.


MCRB’s Theory of Change is intended to lead to Impacts relating to the Protect, Respect, Remedy framework of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which were unanimously endorsed in June 2011 by the UN Human Rights Council.

Programs and Activities

 
MCRB facilitates dialogue and processes aimed at building national and local capacity and partnerships on business and human rights related issues.  


It also undertakes research and publishes sector-wide impact assessments on the oil and gas, tourism, information and communications technologies (ICT) and mining sectors. A SWIA on oil palm is underway.


It  has  researched  the  policy  and  legal  framework  and  practice  concerning significant issues for human rights due diligence in  Myanmar. These include land, children’s rights, Indigenous Peoples, discrimination – particularly on grounds of disability - and biodiversity. Briefing Papers, targeted at businesses investing in Myanmar, have been published to assist them in human rights due diligence  in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), and Myanmar requirements for assessing and managing environmental and social impacts. All information is shared freely and publicly, including on our website; MCRB does not undertake consultancy services, whether for companies or others. Based on research findings and associated recommendations, MCRB undertakes advocacy towards government, parliament, business and other stakeholders. Alone, and in partnership with others, MCRB regularly hosts peer-to-peer and multistakeholder discussions with government, business and civil society groups.

Publications

 

MRCB issues several publications both in print and online:
     •  eNewsletter issued approximately monthly with information on recent and forthcoming activities
     •  Briefing Papers on:
          o Biodiversity, Human Rights and Business
          o Civil Society Organisations and the Extractives Industries in Myanmar
          o Land, Business and Human Rights in Myanmar
          o Children‘s Rights and Business
          o Discrimination by Business and in the Workplace in Myanmar
          o Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Business
     • Handbook for Employers on Employing Persons with Disabilities in Myanmar
     • Business Integrity Handbook for Myanmar Companies (May 2020)
     • Sector-Wide Impact Assessments of Oil and Gas (2014), Tourism (2015), ICT (2015) and Mining (2018)
     • Burmese Translation of
          o IPIECA Good Practice Survey on Operational Level Grievance Mechanisms
          o International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
          o International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  

Address

 
Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business
No.6 (A), Shin Saw Pu Road
Kayin Chan Ward, Ahlone Township
11121 Yangon, Myanmar
ph/fax: +95 1 512613
e-mail: info[a]myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org
www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org
www.mcrb.org.mm

 

 

Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)

 

Year Established: 1995

 

Short Historical Background

 
The HURFOM was founded by pro-democracy students from the 1988 uprising and more recent activists and Mon community leaders and youths, and it main aim is for the restoration of democracy, human rights and genuine peace in Burma.

HURFOM is a non-profit organization and all its members are volunteers who have the same opinion for the same aim. By accepting the main aim, we would like to participate in struggle for the establishment of a democratic Burma doing our part as a local ethnic human rights group, which is monitoring the human rights situation in Mon territory and other areas southern part of Burma.

Objectives

 
HURFOM's goal is to establish democratic and peaceful society in Burma, which respects international recognized human rights.

HURFOM objectives are:
1. To monitor human rights situation in southern part of Burma including the areas where the majority Mon people are living;
2. To empower and educate the people with human rights concepts to have basic consideration how to protect their human rights.

Programs and Activities

 
1. Human Rights Documentation and Dissemination Project - three main activities:
  a. Bi-monthly publication in local language for human rights awareness;
  b. Human Rights Documentation Awareness Workshop/Training;
  c. Special reports on land confiscations, forgotten refugees, and foreign direct investments and their impacts on local people.

2. Human Rights Data Management and Advocacy Project - since there is a relation between human rights data management systematically and advocacy to the international community, HURFOM believes that although it has been involved in some advocacy activities and collaborated campaign with other organizations, it needs to conduct systematic data management and effectively involve in advocacy activities.

HURFOM has the following activities under this Project:
  a. Martus human rights bulletin system;
  b. Land rights advocacy;
  c. Advocacy on forgotten refugees;
  d. Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs), Social and Environmental Impacts.

3. Human Rights and Civic Education Project - in order to provide education on human rights concepts and civic education, HURFOM has the following activities under this Project:
  a. Human Rights Defenders’ Training;
  b. Civic Education Workshop;
  c. Books on Democracy, Human Rights and Federalism.

4. Community Mobilizing Project has the following activities:
  a. English language and computer trainings for youths;
  b. Farmers’ association (to stop land confiscations);
  c. Mon Community-based Organizations (CBOs) Seminar – Networking for Community Empowerment.

5. Woman and Child Rights Project has the following activities:
  a. Production of women’s newsletter: “Voice Up”;
  b. A special report on the specific issue: Trafficking Women and Children in the Neighboring Countries;
  c. Women Journal (in Mon and Burmese languages);
  d. Advocacy and participation in the communities.

6. Civil Society Development Project has two following activities:
  a. “Program & Organization Management” Course;
  b. Organizational management workshop;
  c. Project management workshop.

7. Mon Media Project
  a. Monthly ‘Guiding Star’ Mon newspapers production
  b. VCD Mon news production.
 

Publications

 

  • The Plight Newsletter in English language
  • Our Right Journal in Mon and Burmese languages
  • HURFOM Monthly Overview

            1. The Rise of Pro-Junta Militias in Southeastern Burma (August 2023)

            2. Trajectory of Terror (December 2021)

            3. We have lost our private sphere (September 2021)

            4. Post-Election-Report

            5. Inclusivity

  • Left Behind and Destitute
  • HURFOM's Monthly Human Rights Newsletter
  • The Mon Forum in Mon and Burmese languages
  • Video
  1.  "Reflections on Grassroots Livelihoods During COVID-19" (June 2020) – available on YouTube in Burmese with         Englishsubtitle - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dMi_H7kDmU&t=761s

 

Address

 

Human Rights Foundation of Monland (Burma)
P. O. Box 2237
General Post Office
Bangkok 10501, THAILAND
ph (+66) 034 595 473, (+66) 034 595 665
fax (+66) 034 595 665
e-mail: hurfomcontact@yahoo.com
www.rehmonnya.org; www.monland.org

 

 

 

Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) 

 

Year Established: 1992

 

Short Historical Background

The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) was established in 1992 and now consists of a small group of Karen office and management staff and foreign volunteers, supported by an extensive network of approximately thirty researchers based inside Burma. It documents the situation in any and all parts of Burma whenever firsthand information is available, though its background and limited resources lead it to focus most of its activities in southeastern Burma, particularly Karen areas. Though KHRG often operates in or through areas controlled by the Karen National Union (KNU), it is independent and unaffiliated with any other group. Its actions and reports are in no way controlled, restricted, or censored by the KNU or any other group or organization. Its commitment is not to any organization, but to the villagers whose voices are far too often ignored. To this end, its reporting follows their perspective on human rights - a more holistic view requiring an understanding of how different factors and abuses combine, rather than the incident-based legal perspective favored internationally. It also focuses on the strengths of local people in responding to their human rights situation rather than presenting them as helpless victims.

Objective

KHRG aims to help villagers in rural Burma to get their story to the outside world by translating their stories and testimonies for worldwide distribution, accompanied by supporting photos and documentary evidence of the human rights situation in rural areas.

 

Programs and Activities

 

Documentation of human rights situation – this program uses the media of written reports, audio cassettes, photos and occasionally video for the documentation of the human rights situation. The materials are distributed internationally to human rights organizations, Burma activist groups and opposition groups, the United Nations as well as its Commission on Human Rights and its envoys, Thematic and Special Rapporteurs as appropriate, various governments, relief organizations, academics, journalists and others worldwide.

 

The reports and photos are also circulated via the web site (www.khrg.org) and to a subscription email list.

The documentation is often presented in a form raw from the field, consisting of the recorded, transcribed and translated testimonies of villagers and refugees who have suffered and/or witnessed human rights abuses, accompanied by written analysis of the context of those abuses. KHRG operates on the principle that it is the villagers themselves who can best express their situation, so their testimony forms the core of our reporting.

Empowerment of the villagers – KHRG works directly with villagers to help them overcome outside perceptions of them as 'helpless victims' by focusing on their strengths and the strategies they already use successfully to resist human rights abuses and retain control over their own lives, land and livelihoods. Through this work we hope to catalyze discussions and other processes among villagers themselves that can enhance these strategies and strengthen their position relative to armed and powerful groups.

 

Special Concerns

 

Rural villagers in Burma who are suffering abuses such as forced labor, systematic destruction of villages and crops, forced relocation, extortion, looting, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault and summary executions.

 

Publications

  • Regional and thematic reports - based primarily on detailed testimony by local people, supported by photographic and other evidence
  • Field Reports - drawn from situation summaries submitted by KHRG researchers in the field, with supporting testimony from villagers and documentary evidence when available
  • News Bulletins - regularly produced by KHRG to provide timely reporting on particular events in Karen and other areas of Burma, particularly when urgent action may be required
  • "KHRG Commentary" – issued every few months to provide a summary of trends and some analysis and commentary relating the incidents being documented to the overall situation in Burma and internationally.

 

Address

Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)

e-mail: khrg[a]khrg.org

www.khrg.org

 

 

 

ND-Burma 

 

Year Established: 2004

 

Short Historical Background

 

ND-Burma was formed in 2004 to provide a way for Burma human rights organizations to collaborate on human rights documentation process. The twelve ND-Burma member-organizations seek to collectively use the truth of what communities in Burma have endured to challenge the regime’s power through present-day advocacy as well as prepare for justice and accountability measures in a potential transition. ND-Burma conducts fieldwork trainings, coordinates members’ input into a common database using Martus (an open-source software developed by Benetech), and engages in joint-advocacy campaigns. When possible, ND-Burma also collaborates with other human rights organizations in all aspects of its work.


Objectives

 

ND-Burma aims to facilitate the collaboration among Burma human rights organizations on the human rights documentation process.


Programs and Activities

 

• Human Rights Documentation
Since the range of human rights violations in Burma is extensive, each ND-Burma member-organization focuses on certain violations that are particularly relevant to their mission. To provide a framework for collaboration among member-organizations, ND-Burma has developed a “controlled vocabulary” of the categories of human rights violations on which the network focuses.
• Documentation Manual Series
Based on its controlled category list, ND-Burma has developed a documentation manual series to support its member-organizations to effectively document human rights violations such as the following:

  • Killings & Disappearance
  • Arbitrary Arrest & Detention
  • Recruitment & Use of Child Soldiers
  • Forced Relocation
  • Rape & Other Forms of Sexual Violence
  • Torture & Other Forms of Ill-Treatment
  • Forced Labor
  • Obstruction of Freedom of Movement
  • Violations of Property Rights
  • Forced Marriage
  • Forced Prostitution
  • Human Trafficking
  • Obstruction of Freedoms of Expression and Assembly
  • »» General Documentation.

• Training
ND-Burma’s Training Team organizes and provides training to its member-organizations, affiliates and invited organizations. Human rights documentation training and Martus software training are held regularly. Other training activities include:

  •  International human rights legal systems
  • Project management
  • Finance
  • Film shooting/editing workshop
  • Taxation systems
  • Interview techniques
  • Advocacy
  • Training of Trainers.

• Data Management
All member-organizations use the same software for documentation, called “Martus”, allowing for analysis and storage of encrypted incident reports, called “bulletins,” on a secure common server.
ND-Burma provides training and support on using Martus to its members.

• Advocacy
ND-Burma promotes its work and those of other Burmese human rights organizations through its website. ND-Burma provides human rights information to relevant advocacy campaigns and through publishing reports analyzing its data. ND-Burma has finished a report about “Arbitrary Taxation” and its impact on the livelihoods of people in Burma. It is currently working on a “Land Grabbing” report concerning a nationwide abuse by military, police and cronies. ND-Burma collaborates with its member-organizations and other human rights organizations’ campaigns.

 

Publications

 

Human Rights Documentation Manuals on the following topics:

  • Recruitment and use of child soldiers
  • Forced labor 
  • Arbitrary arrest and detention
  • Rape and other forms of sexual violence
  • Human trafficking
  • Forced marriage
  • Forced prostitution
  • Obstruction of freedom of movement
  • Forced relocation
  • Obstruction of freedom of expression and assembly
  • Killings and disappearances
  • Violations of property rights
  • Torture and other forms of ill-treatment

Reports

  • Report on the Human Rights Situation in Burma (April - September 2012)
  • Extreme Measures: Torture and Ill Treatment in Burma since the 2010 Elections
  • Human Rights Situation in Burma (March 2011 to March 2012)
  • Report on the Human Rights Situation in Burma (2011)

 

Videos

  • One Family, Three Generations
  • Ongoing Impunity continued Burma army atrocities against Kachin people
  • “Extreme Measures”
  • Convict Porters - War Crime
  • Bringing Justice to Women of Burma
  • Burma’s Big Lie

Address

 

Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma

PO Box 67, CMU Post Office, Chiang Mai 50202, THAILAND
ph/fax (6653) 408149
e-mail: office[a]nd-burma.org
http://nd-burma.org

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