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Burma Organisations Worldwide

Burma Organisations Worldwide

Australia
• Australia Campaign for Burma
• Campaign for Burma
  Austria
• Austrian Burma Center
  Belgium
• Actions Birmanie
  Canada
• Canadian Friends of Burma
  Czech Republic
• Burma Center Prague
• People in Need
  Denmark
• Danish Burma Committee
  Finland
• Campaign for Democracy in Burma (Finland)
• Finnish Burma Committee
  Email contact: ojasti@kaapeli.fi
  France
• Info Birmanie
  Germany
• Burma Aktion
• Burma Initiative Germany
• Burma Bureau Germany
  Indonesia
• Democracy for Burma
  International Burmese Monks Association
• English
• Burmese
  Ireland
• Burma Action Ireland
  Italy
• Birmania Democratica
  Japan
• Burma Info
  Malaysia
• Burmese Migrants Welfare Organization
  Email contact: minnkyaw@my.wgu.edu,minnkyaw@burmaoffice.org
  Netherlands
• Burma Centrum Netherlands
  New Zealand
• New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
• The Burma Campaign New Zealand
  Norway
• Norwegian Burma Committee
  Philippines
• Initiatives for International Dialogue
  Poland
• Polish Burma Solidarity
  Portugal
• Associação de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos
  Email contact: rrts@yahoo.com or valdas@netcabo.pt
  Saudi Arabia
• NLD support group email contact:NLD_SG@hotmail.com
  South Africa
• FBC-SA
  Sweden
• Swedish Burma Committee
  Switzerland
• Association Suisse-Birmanie
  Thailand
• All Burma Federation of Student Unions (Foreign Affairs Committee)
• Burma Partnership
• Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma
  UK
• Burma Campaign UK
• Burma Campaign UK on YouTube
• Burma Campaign UK on Facebook
• Burmese Democratic Movement Association - UK
• National League for Democracy (NLD) Liberated area UK Branch
  United States
• United States Campaign for Burma

Exiled Government

• National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB)
• National Council of the Union of Burma

Human Rights

• Altsean
  Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma
• Amnesty International
• Amnesty International Crimes against Humanity in Eastern Burma report
• Article 19
  Global campaign for freedom of expression
• Assistance Association for Political Prisoners - Burma
  Documents and disseminates information on the real situation of political prisoners in Burma and provides assistance to the families of prisoners.
• EarthRights International
  EarthRights International's Burma Project collects on-the-ground information about the human rights and environmental situation in Burma.
• Free Burma Rangers
  The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) provide humanitarian assistance to ethnic groups affected by conflict and oppression at the hands of Burma’s military regime.
• Free Burma’s Political Prisoners Now
  Campaign to free all of Burma's political prisoners
• Human Rights Treaties ratified by Burma
  Compiled by the University of Minnesota
• Human Rights Watch - Burma page
  Reports on Burma the human right situation in Burma.
• International Labour Organisation: Report on Forced Labour in Burma
• Landmine Monitor Report: Burma 2009
• Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma
  ND-Burma works with Burma human rights organizations on the human rights documentation process.
  ND-Burma conducts fieldwork trainings, coordinates members’ input into a common database and engages in joint-advocacy campaigns.
• Reporters without Borders
  Annual report on press freedom in Burma.
• The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Myanmar (Burma) information
• US State Department report on human rights in Burma
  2009 Human Rights Report
• Witness
  Uses video and technology for human rights

News and Information

• 2010 Elections News from Democratic Voice of Burma
  News and information about the 2010 elections, including details of the parties taking part.
• BBC Burmese
• Burmadaily
  News from Burma
• Burmanet
  Coverage of news and opinion on Burma from around the world
• CIA World Factbook - Burma
  Facts and figures about Burma from the United States Central Intelligence Agency
• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi pages
  Website about Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
• Democratic Voice of Burma
  Norway based exiled media station with online news and videos. Broadcasts radio and TV into Burma.
• Development Gateway
  Resources on development projects and a country snapshot of aid activities funded by major bilateral and multilateral donors in Burma.
• Human Security Gateway
  The Human Security Gateway is a rapidly expanding searchable online database of human security-related resources including reports, journal articles, news items and fact sheets.
• Inside Burma - Land of Fear
  Information on the documentary by John Pilger
• Inside Burma - Land of Fear
  Watch the video on Google Video
• Mizzima
  English version: Online newspaper which specialises in Burma related news and multimedia
• Mizzima
  Burmese version : Online newspaper which specialises in Burma related news and multimedia
• News Statesman special issue on Burma (Jun 08)
• Online Burma Library
  Classified and annotated links to more than 15,000 full text documents on Burma/Myanmar
• Rebound 88
  Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in Burma
• The Irrawaddy News Magazine
  Online magazine covering Burma and Asia

Environment

• Burma Rivers Network
• EarthRights International
  EarthRights International's Burma Project collects on-the-ground information about the human rights and environmental situation in Burma.
• Karen Rivers Watch
• Living River Siam
  Works to support local community rights to their rivers, and to oppose threats to rivers and river ecosystems in Thailand, the Mekong, and Salween River Basins, such as large dams and water diversion projects.
• Project Maje
• Salween watch
  A coalition of organizations and NGOs that work on Burma-related and environmental issues. It was set up with the primary aim of preventing the building of harmful hydroelectric power dams on the Salween River.
• Shwe Gas Movement
  A campaign site documenting the Shwe Gas project.

• Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia
  A statement on business involvement in Burma by institutional investors that collectively have £400 billion in funds under management.
• Burma Economic Watch
  A periodical that aims to provide up-to-date and reliable data , analysis and commentary on the economy of Burma.
• Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
  Aims to track the positive and negative impacts of over 4000 companies worldwide
• Global Unions: Companies linked to Burma
  A database compiled by the ITUC and the Global Union Federations, based on publicly available information indicating that companies have business links with Burma.
• Salween watch
  A coalition of organizations and NGOs that work on Burma-related and environmental issues. It was set up with the primary aim of preventing the building of harmful hydroelectric power dams on the Salween River.
• SEEcompanies.com
  A forum in which businesses set out their social, environmental and ethical (SEE)
• Shwe Gas Movement
  A campaign site documenting the Shwe Gas project.

Health

• AIDS, TB, Malaria and Bird Flu spread unchecked in Burma
  Report on how diseases pose threat to regional and global health
• Back Pack Health Worker Team
• Development Gateway
  Resources on development projects and a country snapshot of aid activities funded by major bilateral and multilateral donors in Burma.
• Global Health Facts
  Facts on various health indicators including, People Living with HIV/AIDS in Burma, New TB Cases, Malaria Cases, Malaria Deaths and Adult HIV/AIDS Prevalence Rate (2007)
• HIV Information for Myanmar (HIM)
  HIV information for Burma
• Mae Tao Clinic (Dr Cynthia’s clinic)
  The Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), founded and directed by Dr. Cynthia Maung, provides free health care for refugees, migrant workers, and other individuals who cross the border from Burma to Thailand.
• Three Diseases Fund
  To help reducing human suffering caused by TB, Malaria and HIV and AIDS in Burma.

Cultural and Historical

• Art-Exiled
  Art from Burmese artists in exile
• Burmese Hip Hop
• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi pages
  Website about Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
• Exile Images: Photography
• Free Aung San Suu Kyi
  Journalism, art and literature about Aung San Suu Kyi
• Grace under Pressure
  Images of Burma.
• Kalama Sutta
  A documentary in which a trip to Burma is transformed into a meditation on human rights and media.
• Karen guerillas
  Photos of Karen State
• Shwe Dream
  Burmese Music.

Ethnic Groups

Chin
• Chin Forum
  The Chin Forum provides research and reports to assist the Chin peoples' struggle for freedom and democracy.
• Chin Human Rights Organization
  Chin Human Rights Organization is working to protect and promote the rights of the Chin people.
• Chin National Front (CNF)
  The Chin National Front (CNF) was formed on 20 March, 1988, dedicated to securing the self-determination of the Chin people, to restore democracy, and to establish federal Union of Burma.
• Kuki Forum (KIF)
  Kuki Forum (KIF)
  Kachin
• Kachin News
  Kachin News
• Kachin Post
  The Kachin Post is an independent media organization and it stands for Kachin National interest in the principles of democracy and human rights.
• Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
  The empowerment and advancement of Kachin women in order to improve the lives of women and children in Kachin society.
  Karen
• Karen National Union
  The Karen National Union is the leading political organisation representing the aspirations of the Karen people.
• Phan Foundation
  Founded in memory of Padoh Mahn Sha, the General Secretary of the Karen National Union. Has four main objectives: to alleviate poverty, to provide education, to promote human rights and to protect Karen culture.
• Karen Women Organisation
  A community-based organisation of Karen women working in development and relief in the refugee camps on the Thai border and with IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) and women inside Burma.
• Kawthoolei
  Provide contemporary news, views and perspectives by and about the Karen people.
• Drum Publications
  Provides educational material in Burmese, English and Karen. Drum Publication Group is a small independent community based organization dedicated to promoting education and preserving the cultures of the peoples of Burma.
• Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
  The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) is a small and independent group documenting the human rights situation in rural Burma.
  Karenni
• Karenni Students Union (KSU)
  Karenni Students Union (KSU)
• Karenni Homeland
  Karenni Homeland
  Mon
• Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
  Founded by pro-democracy students from the 1988 uprising and more recent activists and Mon community leaders and youths HURFOM's main aim is for the restoration of democracy, human rights and genuine peace in Burma.
• Kaowao Newsgroup
  Activists and journalists committed to addressing pressing issues of Burma and its indigenous heritage formed the Kaowao Newsgroup in November 2001.
  Rohingya
• Arakan Rohingya National Organization
  Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO)
• Burmese Rohingya Organisation
  Burmese Rohingya Organisation (BROUK)
• Rohingya Burma’s Forgotten Minority
  A report by Refugees International
• Rohingyas, the Forgotten People
  An ABC documentary
• The Rohingya Minority
  A report by Amnesty International (2004)
  Shan
• Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN)
  A network of Shan women active in Shan State and Thailand. It was founded on 28 March 1999. Most SWANs work on voluntary basis.
• Shan Herald Agency for News
  Shan Herald Agency for News

Women

• Burmese Women’s Union
  Burmese Women's Union (BWU) work for the rights of women, to increase women's participation in the Burmese political arena and to provide much-needed support for women in the refugee camps along the borders of Burma.
• Karenni National Women’s Organization
  KNWO is a community-based organization that looks after the wellbeing of disadvantaged Karenni people caught in armed conflict.
• WEAVE - Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment
• Women’s League of Burma
  Aims to work for women's empowerment and advancement of the status of women, and to work for the increased participation of women in all spheres of society in the democracy movement, and in peace and national reconciliation processes through capacity building, advocacy, research and documentation.
• Women’s League of Chinland
  Focuses on building capacity of Chin Women through workshops, training programs, safe houses and income generation of. Promotes women participation in politics through lobbying and advocacy campaigns regionally and internationally.

Refugees and IDPs

• Burma Border Projects (BBP)
  A non-profit, charitable foundation established to support and augment existing relief efforts along the Burma-Thailand border.
• Burma Children Medical Fund (BCMF)
  A program dedicated to raising money for children from Burma with serious medical problems who are disadvantaged as a result of the Burmese regime.
• Burma Diaspora
  Video footage of the Karen and the situation in Eastern Burma.
• Free Burma Rangers
  The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) provide humanitarian assistance to ethnic groups affected by conflict and oppression at the hands of Burma’s military regime.
• Help without Frontiers
  Aims to alleviate the suffering of Burmese refugees who have flee their homeland because of regime brutality.
• http://www.helfenohnegrenzen.de/
  Helfe Ohne Grenzen
  A German relief organisation for refugees on the Thai/Burma border.
• Karenni Student Development Program (KSDP)
  Providing aid for Karenni refugees on the Thai/Burma border
• Latest IDP figure for Burma - Internal Displacement Monitoring Group
  Established in 1998 by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), is the leading international body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide.
• Living Water Center
  A Thai charity providing education to Burmese refugees.
• Mae Tao Clinic (Dr Cynthia’s clinic)
  The Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), founded and directed by Dr. Cynthia Maung, provides free health care for refugees, migrant workers, and other individuals who cross the border from Burma to Thailand.
• Partner Relief & Development
  We assist the poor and those affected by the war in Burma. We are committed to empower individuals and communities and co-create sustainable solutions to their poverty. We are a voice for the displaced and oppressed. We seek system change.
• Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC)
  TBBC is a consortium of 12 international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from ten countries providing food, shelter and non food items to refugees and displaced people from Burma.
• The Branch Foundation
  TBF is Fund-raising body and provide aid and financial assistance for ethnic minority groups, in particular children that have fled ethnic conflict in the region.
• WEAVE - Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment

Students and Education

• All Burma Federation of Student Unions (Foreign Affairs Committee)
• All Burma Students’ Democratic Front
• Burma Education Partnership (BEP)
  A British educational charity supporting a range of initiatives involving communities affected by war, oppression and economic hardship in Burma.
• Human Rights Education Institute of Burma
  Aims to empower Burmese people through human rights education to engage in social transformation and promote a culture of human rights for all.
• Living Water Center
  A Thai charity providing education to Burmese refugees.
• Prospect Burma
  Aims to invest in the democratic future of Burma through its young people.

Trade Unions

• Federation of Trade Unions - Burma
• Global Unions: Companies linked to Burma
  A database compiled by the ITUC and the Global Union Federations, based on publicly available information indicating that companies have business links with Burma.
• International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
  Aims to promote and defend workers’ rights and interests, through international cooperation between trade unions, global campaigning and advocacy within the major global institutions

Burmese Military Regime

• New Light of Myanmar
  The Regime's newspaper in English and Burmese.
• The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) website
  A regularly updated website with links to other regime websites.

Documentaries and Videos

• BeCause Foundation
  BeCause Foundation drives social change through the powerful fusion of documentary filmmaking and related strategic programs.
• Burma Campaign UK’s YouTube channel.
  Watch the best Burma videos from across the web at Burma Campaign UK's YouTube channel.
• Burma Diaspora
  Video footage of the Karen and the situation in Eastern Burma.
• Burma VJ
  Burma VJ is a documentary that traces the 2007 uprising in Burma by telling the story of the undercover video journalists (VJs) that recorded the uprising and the subsequent brutal crackdown.
• Eyes to Burma
  About Burma crisis and the problems resulting from the crisis.
• Inside Burma - Land of Fear
  Information on the documentary by John Pilger
• Inside Burma - Land of Fear
  Watch the video on Google Video
• Kalama Sutta
  A documentary in which a trip to Burma is transformed into a meditation on human rights and media.
• Moving to Mars
  Moving to Mars follows two refugee families from Burma over the course of a year that will change their lives completely.
• The Hub, by Witness.
  The web's first video site promoting Human Rights. Through the Hub, individuals, organizations, networks and groups around the world are able to bring their human rights stories and campaigns to global attention and to mobilize action to protect and promote human rights.