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MYANMAR (BURMA)
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United Nations. Geospatial Information Section.
Date of Document:
January 2016
Accessed Date:
27 October 2023
Title:
Présentation de la Birmanie.
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
2 June 2023
Accessed Date:
27 October 2023
Title:
Burma. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
17 October 2023
Accessed Date:
25 October 2023
Title:
Birmanie (Myanmar). L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde
Date of Document:
23 June 2023
Accessed Date:
13 October 2023
Title:
DFAT Country Information Report: Myanmar
Source:
Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Date of Document:
11 November 2022
Accessed Date:
13 October 2023
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Myanmar (Burma): Critics of the military regime. Version 5.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
June 2023
Accessed Date:
13 October 2023
Title:
Burma (Myanmar). Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Asia and the Pacific, 2018.
Source:
United States. Social Security Administration.
Date of Document:
March 2019
Accessed Date:
1 October 2020
Title:
Myanmar. Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023.
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Date of Document:
15 January 2023
Accessed Date:
13 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar. BTI 2022 Country Report.
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Detailed findings of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
16 September 2019
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Yangon Informal Settlements – Resettlement Programme (YIS-RP): Survey II Report
Source:
United Nations Human Settlements Programme; Myanmar Survey Research
Date of Document:
1 January 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
COI Query Response. Myanmar: The situation in Chin State and Sagaing Region.
Source:
Asylum Research Centre
Date of Document:
March 2019
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
Myanmar: Another Wave of Atrocity Crimes in Chin State
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
4 November 2021
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar's Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic Conflict
Source:
Council on Foreign Relations
Date of Document:
31 January 2022
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Counting Myanmar's Dead: Reported Civilian Casualties since the 2021 Military Coup
Source:
Peace Research Institute Oslo
Date of Document:
13 June 2023
Author:
Min Zaw Oo; Stein Tønnesson
Accessed Date:
13 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar. Update on the post-coup humanitarian situation.
Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Date of Document:
4 May 2023
Accessed Date:
13 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar (Burma). Civic Freedom Monitor.
Source:
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Date of Document:
29 June 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
COI Brief Report. Myanmar: Security situation.
Source:
Denmark. Danish Immigration Service.
Date of Document:
September 2023
Accessed Date:
13 October 2023
Title:
Burma. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
Accessed Date:
29 May 2024
Title:
Myanmar. Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
27 March 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar. World Report 2023: Events of 2022.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Situation of human rights in Myanmar
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
19 September 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar. The State of Conflict and Violence in Asia: Identity-Based Conflict and Extremism.
Source:
The Asia Foundation
Date of Document:
20 October 2021
Accessed Date:
27 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar: Hundreds Forcibly Disappeared
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
2 April 2021
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
13 June 2022
Accessed Date:
27 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar: Year of Brutality in Coup's Wake
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
28 January 2022
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Conflict and Development in the Myanmar–China Border Region
Date of Document:
March 2022
Editor:
Indu Nandakumar; Tabea Campbell Paul
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Thomas H. Andrews
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
9 March 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar. Freedom in the World 2023.
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Concluding observations on the initial report of Myanmar
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Date of Document:
22 October 2019
Accessed Date:
1 October 2020
Title:
Myanmar Humanitarian Update No. 33
Source:
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Date of Document:
2 October 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Thomas H. Andrews
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
3 October 2022
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar: Two years after coup, global action needed to halt military's ‘nationwide assault on human rights'
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
30 January 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Resistance and the Cost of the Coup in Chin State, Myanmar
Source:
The Asia Foundation
Date of Document:
March 2023
Author:
Victor Biak Lian and al.
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: Myanmar
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/37/MMR/1
Date of Document:
2 November 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on Myanmar
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/37/MMR/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
12 November 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/37/MMR/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
12 November 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Situation of human rights in Myanmar since 1 February 2021
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
28 June 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Situation of human rights in Myanmar since 1 February 2022
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
2 March 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar: Junta Blocks Lifesaving Aid
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
13 December 2021
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar: Protesters Targeted in March Massacre
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
2 December 2021
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Supplementary information to the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Myanmar since 1 February 2021: Conference room paper
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
21 September 2021
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Resisting the Resistance: Myanmar's Pro-military Pyusawhti Militias. Asia Briefing N°171.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
6 April 2022
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar's Coup Shakes Up Its Ethnic Conflicts. Asia Report N°319.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
12 January 2022
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
The Deadly Stalemate in Post-coup Myanmar. Asia Briefing N°170.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
20 October 2021
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Avoiding a Return to War in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Asia Report N°325
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
1 June 2022
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Situation of human rights in Myanmar since 1 February 2021
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
23 March 2022
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Situation of human rights in Myanmar
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
19 October 2021
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar: Coup Leads to Crimes Against Humanity
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
31 July 2021
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
“Nowhere is Safe”: The Myanmar Junta's Crimes Against Humanity Following the Coup d'État
Date of Document:
24 March 2022
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Rebuilding an Architecture of Oppression: The impact of the military coup on freedom of expression and civic space in Myanmar
Date of Document:
December 2021
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar: Coup Crushes Democratic Rule
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
13 January 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Progress made and remaining challenges with regard to the recommendations of the independent international fact-finding mission
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
21 September 2022
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Summary of the panel discussion on the root causes of human rights violations and abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
19 December 2022
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Illegal and illegitimate: examining the claim by the Myanmar military to be the Government of Myanmar, and the international response thereto; Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
31 January 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar - Report of the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
14 August 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Burma Citizenship Law
Accessed Date:
19 October 2012
Title:
Re-imagining Myanmar citizenship in times of transition. Statelessness Working Paper Series No. 2017/01.
Source:
Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
Date of Document:
January 2017
Author:
José-María Arraiza
Accessed Date:
22 September 2017
Title:
A Gender Analysis of the Right to a Nationality in Myanmar
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council et al.
Date of Document:
March 2018
Accessed Date:
5 October 2018
Title:
Burma. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
25 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar : Citoyenneté birmane et Rohingyas
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
20 February 2018
Accessed Date:
8 October 2019
Title:
Citizenship and Human Rights in Myanmar: Why Law Reform is Urgent and Possible: A Legal Briefing
Source:
International Commission of Jurists
Date of Document:
June 2019
Accessed Date:
1 October 2020
Title:
Navigating with a Faulty Map: Access to Citizenship Documents and Citizenship in Myanmar
Source:
Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
Date of Document:
October 2021
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
A Road to Nowhere: The Myanmar Regime's Stage-managed Elections. Asia Report N°175
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
28 March 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar's Stalled Transition. Asia Briefing N°151.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
28 August 2018
Accessed Date:
8 October 2019
Title:
Buddhism and State Power in Myanmar. Asia Report N°290.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
5 September 2017
Accessed Date:
5 October 2018
Title:
Rebooting Myanmar's Stalled Peace Process. Asia Report N°308.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
19 June 2020
Accessed Date:
1 October 2020
Title:
Peace and Electoral Democracy in Myanmar. Asia Briefing N°157.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
6 August 2019
Accessed Date:
1 October 2020
Title:
Myanmar: Political Parties Law Shackles Opposition
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 February 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
An Avoidable War: Politics and Armed Conflict in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Asia Report N°307.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
9 June 2020
Accessed Date:
1 October 2020
Title:
From Elections to Ceasefire in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Asia Briefing N°164.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
23 December 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Myanmar's 'Triple Crisis': Impact on the Pro-Democracy Movement
Source:
Middle East Institute
Date of Document:
12 October 2021
Accessed Date:
4 October 2022
Title:
Burma Coup Watch: Urgent Action Required To Prevent Destabilizing Violence
Date of Document:
1 March 2021
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Myanmar: Vast arsenal and notorious troops deployed during nationwide ‘killing spree' protest crackdown – new research
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
11 March 2021
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Responding to the Myanmar Coup. Asia Briefing N°166.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
16 February 2021
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Beyond the Coup in Myanmar: Inside Karen State
Date of Document:
30 April 2021
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Submission to CEDAW regarding Myanmar's Exceptional Report on the Situation on Women and Girls from Northern Rakhine State
Source:
Human Rights Watch; Fortify Rights
Date of Document:
May 2018
Accessed Date:
8 October 2019
Title:
Concluding observations on the report of Myanmar submitted under the exceptional reporting procedure
Code:
CEDAW/C/MMR/CO/EP/1
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
18 March 2019
Accessed Date:
1 October 2020
Title:
Regressing Gender Equality in Myanmar: Women living under the pandemic and military rule
Source:
UN Women; United Nations Development Programme
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Rapid Gender Analysis on Power and Participation: Women Lead in Emergencies. Northern Shan State, Myanmar.
Source:
CARE International
Date of Document:
30 November 2022
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
“All of My Body Was Pain”: Sexual Violence against Rohingya Women and Girls in Burma
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
16 November 2017
Editor:
Nisha Varia et al.
Accessed Date:
5 October 2018
Title:
“Give Us a Baby and We'll Let You Go”: Trafficking of Kachin “Brides” from Myanmar to China
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
21 March 2019
Accessed Date:
8 October 2019
Title:
CARE Rapid Gender Analysis Myanmar – Rakhine State
Date of Document:
4 August 2020
Author:
Peninah Kimiri et al.
Accessed Date:
1 October 2020
Title:
Sexual and gender-based violence in Myanmar and the gendered impact of its ethnic conflicts
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
22 August 2019
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Children and armed conflict in Myanmar: Report of the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
17 December 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
The Situation for Women in Myanmar
Source:
Norwegian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Date of Document:
12 May 2021
Author:
May Sabe Phyu; Nang Moet Moet
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
Breaking Gender and Age Barriers amid Myanmar's Spring Revolution. Asia Briefing N°174
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
16 February 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Rights of Women Violated in Myanmar Prisons
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
8 June 2021
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
“Losing a generation: how the military junta is devastating Myanmar's children and undermining Myanmar's future” : Conference room paper of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
14 June 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Violence Against Rohingya Women
Source:
The Borgen Project
Date of Document:
15 September 2021
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar. State-Sponsored Homophobia 2019.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
March 2019
Author:
Lucas Ramón Mendos
Accessed Date:
8 October 2019
Title:
Input to thematic report of the SR Torture to HRC49 (March 2022): “Impact of thematic reports presented by the Special Rapporteur on Torture”
Source:
ILGA-Asia; C.A.N-Myanmar
Date of Document:
31 August 2021
Accessed Date:
27 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar. Our Identities Under Arrest: A global overview on the enforcement of laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults and diverse gender expressions.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
15 December 2021
Editor:
Lucas Ramón Mendos
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
In the shadows: Systemic injustice based on sexual orientation and gender identity /expression in Myanmar
Source:
Denmark. Danish Immigration Service.
Date of Document:
November 2019
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Burma (Myanmar).
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
17 June 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Burma: Tier 3. Trafficking in Persons Report 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
June 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar: Overview of corruption and anti-corruption
Source:
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
Date of Document:
22 November 2019
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Date of Document:
5 November 2020
Accessed Date:
27 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar / Birmanie : L'Armée de l'Arakan (Arakan Army, AA)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
9 April 2021
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Thematic Brief on Gender and Corruption in Myanmar
Source:
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Date of Document:
October 2020
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Treading a Rocky Path: The Ta'ang Army Expand in Myanmar's Shan State. Asia Briefing N°177.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
4 September 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
8.
Military Service - (No items in this section)
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Ethnic Armed Actors and Justice Provision in Myanmar
Source:
The Asia Foundation
Date of Document:
October 2016
Author:
Brian McCartan; Kim Jolliffe
Accessed Date:
22 September 2017
Title:
Prison Conditions in Burma and the Potential for Prison Reform
Source:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)
Date of Document:
September 2016
Author:
Ko Aung Khaing Min et al.
Editor:
Ko Aung Khaing Min et al.
Accessed Date:
22 September 2017
Title:
Update: The Legal System of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Date of Document:
October 2021
Author:
Su Wai Mon ; Ershadul Karim
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
'No one can protect us': War Crimes and Abuses in Myanmar's Rakhine State
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
29 May 2019
Accessed Date:
8 October 2019
Title:
Myanmar: Post-Coup Legal Changes Erode Human Rights
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
2 March 2021
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Beyond the Coup in Myanmar: “In Accordance with the Law” – How the Military Perverts Rule of Law to Oppress Civilians
Date of Document:
28 April 2021
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
Political Prisoners Experience in Interrogation, Judiciary and Incarceration Since Burma's Illegitimate Military Coup
Source:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners
Date of Document:
March 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
“Our Numbers Are Dwindling”: Myanmar's Post-Coup Crackdown on Lawyers
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
8 June 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
“All the Civilians Suffer”: Conflict, Displacement, and Abuse in Northern Myanmar
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
14 June 2017
Accessed Date:
22 September 2017
Title:
Myanmar: Villages burned, civilians injured and killed as Rakhine State conflict escalates
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
12 October 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Beyond the Coup in Myanmar: A Crisis Born from Impunity
Date of Document:
18 May 2021
Author:
Grant Shubin; Akila Radhakrishnan
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
Myanmar: Stop Holding Family, Friends Hostage
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 June 2021
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
Ongoing War Crimes in Karenni (Kayah) State, Myanmar: May 2021 to January 2022
Date of Document:
15 February 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar: The Rohingya's Decade of Detention
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
15 June 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar: A year after military takeover, no rule of law or judicial independence
Source:
International Commission of Jurists
Date of Document:
10 February 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Young males being disappeared by Myanmar security forces
Date of Document:
5 May 2021
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar: Detainees tortured to crush opposition to coup
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
2 August 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar: First executions in decades mark atrocious escalation in state repression
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
25 July 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar: UN Human Rights Council must urge newly-elected government to prioritise legal reform to guarantee the right to freedom of expression
Date of Document:
23 December 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Myanmar. Freedom on the Net 2023.
Editor:
Adrian Shahbaz et al.
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Scorecard Assessing Freedom of Expression in Myanmar
Source:
PEN Myanmar et al.
Date of Document:
2 May 2018
Accessed Date:
8 October 2019
Title:
Myanmar. World Press Freedom Index 2023.
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Figures for past year's persecution of journalism in Myanmar
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
4 February 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Myanmar: Resist the digital coup
Date of Document:
8 February 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Anti-journalist terror has grown in every way in two years of military rule in Myanmar
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
30 January 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Burma. International Religious Freedom Report for 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
15 May 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Burma. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. 2023 Annual Report.
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
April 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar: “Caged without a roof”: Apartheid in Myanmar's Rakhine State
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
21 November 2017
Accessed Date:
5 October 2018
Title:
Mission report of OHCHR rapid response mission to Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
24 September 2017
Accessed Date:
23 October 2017
Title:
'We Will Destroy Everything': Military Responsibility for Crimes Against Humanity in Rakhine State
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
27 June 2018
Accessed Date:
25 October 2018
Source:
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
Date of Document:
December 2022
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Violations of the right to freedom of religion and belief since the coup d'état in Myanmar: A briefing paper
Source:
International Commission of Jurists
Date of Document:
October 2022
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Myanmar/Burma. World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Date of Document:
November 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Myanmar. The Indigenous World 2023.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2023
Editor:
Dwayne Mamo et al.
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Myanmar : Le confinement des musulmans rohingyas et kaman dans le district de Sittwe, capitale de l'Etat de Rakhine
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
2 March 2018
Accessed Date:
8 October 2019
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Burma: Rohingya (including Rohingya in Bangladesh). Version 3.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
June 2023
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Identity Crisis: Ethnicity and Conflict in Myanmar. Asia Report N°312.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
28 August 2020
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Myanmar: The social atrocity: Meta and the right to remedy for the Rohingya
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
29 September 2022
Accessed Date:
16 October 2023
Title:
Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
31 August 2021
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
“An Open Prison without End”: Myanmar's Mass Detention of Rohingya in Rakhine State
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
October 2020
Editor:
Brad Adams et al.
Accessed Date:
23 March 2021
Title:
Left Behind: Ethnic Minorities and COVID-19 Response in Rural Southeast Myanmar
Source:
Karen Human Rights Group
Date of Document:
May 2021
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
Beyond the Coup in Myanmar: The Views of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Date of Document:
10 June 2021
Author:
Jessica Olney; Shabbir Ahmad
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
Myanmar: No Justice, No Freedom for Rohingya 5 Years On
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
24 August 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Myanmar. Where Refugees Call Home.
Source:
The Border Consortium
Accessed Date:
1 October 2020
Title:
Five Years On, Rohingya Refugees Face Dire Conditions and a Long Road Ahead
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
22 August 2022
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
The Long Haul Ahead for Myanmar's Rohingya Refugee Crisis. Asia Report N°296.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
16 May 2018
Accessed Date:
16 May 2019
Title:
UN Shared Rohingya Data Without Informed Consent
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
15 June 2021
Accessed Date:
20 August 2021
Title:
Spotlight – Myanmar: Disaster displacement, the other side of the crisis
Source:
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Accessed Date:
5 October 2022
Title:
Residents forced to flee the symbolic ‘town of peace'
Source:
Centre for Information Resilience
Date of Document:
17 August 2022
Accessed Date:
19 October 2022
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 31 October 2023:
Title:
Burma. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2022.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
20 March 2023
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/burma
Accessed Date:
25 August 2023
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