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UN Human Rights Council Eighth Session, 2-18 June 2008 ...
18 July 2008

The statements in this document were made during the eighth main session of the Human Rights Council that took place from 2 to 18 June 2008.

Report       IOR 41/034/2008

Myanmar: Health concern/torture and other ill-treatment: U Win Tin ...
4 July 2008

U Win Tin, the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in Myanmar, needs urgent medical attention. He has recently been suffering from severe asthma attacks and ...

Urgent Action       ASA 16/016/2008

Myanmar: Health concern/ torture and ill-treatment
17 June 2008

Prisoners of conscience Myo Yan Naung Thein and U Ohn Than need urgent medical attention. Myo Yan Naung Thein is partly paralysed after being tortured, and is ...

Urgent Action       ASA 16/015/2008

Myanmar: Crimes against humanity in eastern Myanmar
5 June 2008

This report focuses on violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed in Kayin State and Bago Division between 2005 through 2007. It includes ...

Report       ASA 16/011/2008

Myanmar Briefing. Human rights concerns a month after Cyclone ...
5 June 2008

Amnesty International fears that the humanitarian crisis after Cyclone Nargis may lead to further human rights violations by the SPDC. Transparency and accountability ...

Report       ASA 16/013/2008

Myanmar government puts cyclone survivors at increased risk ...
5 June 2008

Myanmar’s government is keeping aid from reaching survivors of CycloneNargis and stepping up efforts to force them out of emergency shelters.

Report Abstract      

Myanmar: Cyclone survivors at increased risk because of Myanmar ...
5 June 2008

Myanmar’s government is stepping up efforts to force survivors of Cyclone Nargis out of emergency shelters and is keeping aid from reaching them, according to ne

Press Release      

Video: Sixty years of human rights failure | Amnesty International
27 May 2008

Amnesty International has challenged world leaders to apologize forsix decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliverconcrete improvements.

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South-East Asia: Open letter to the Association of Southeast Asian ...
16 May 2008

In this open letter to ASEAN member states, Amnesty International warns that without immediate action by ASEAN leaders, the humanitarian disaster created by Cyclone ...

Document       ASA 03/002/2008