Archive for the 'Japan' Category

GA Third Committee approves Burma Resolution despite India’s dissent

November 21, 2007

According to the Press Release (GA/SHC/3909) of the United Nations Department of Public Information, News and Media Division, New York issued on 20th of November 2007, the United Nations Sixty-Second General Assembly “Third Committee” (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) in its day-long 49th and 50th meetings approved a draft resolution on the Situation of human rights [...]

CARTOON: JUNTA READY TO COOPERATE WITH UN

November 17, 2007

Artist: Pawan, Burma Review
Note: Please click on the cartoon to see full picture.

Burma Review is happy to introduce art work of Mr. Pawan, an ace cartoonist from India to its esteemed readers. Born in 1977, Mr. Pawan belongs to a new generation of cartoonist from the Bihar State of India, who soon found a respectable [...]

Open Letter of Human Rights Watch to the ASEAN SG

November 16, 2007

Given below is the complete text and open letter of Mr. Brad Adams, Executive Director, Asia Division of “Human Rights Watch” to the ASEAN Secretary General Mr. Ong Keng Yong, which was issued yesterday regarding impending signing of the new ASEAN Charter at the 13th ASEAN Summit in Singapore from November 18-22. Burma Review also [...]