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	<description>Strenghtening Cooperation for a Free Burma</description>
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		<title>Statement by a Worldwide Coalition of Burma Campaigning Groups</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/statement-by-a-worldwide-coalition-of-burma-campaigning-groups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/statement-by-a-worldwide-coalition-of-burma-campaigning-groups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week marks the week of action for the global launch of International Campaign to Stop Rape &#038; Gender Violence in Conflict. 
 
As member organizations of the International Campaign to Stop Rape &#038; Gender Violence in Conflict, we – a worldwide coalition of Burma campaigning groups - support and pledge to help end this wanton scourge that affects so many countries like Burma, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KIO Chairman&#8217;s Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/kio-chairman-letter-to-un-general-secretary-ban-ki-moon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/kio-chairman-letter-to-un-general-secretary-ban-ki-moon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crimes Against Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crimes against humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnic Nationalities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kachin Independence Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kachin Independence Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=12454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The KIO Central Committee of the Kachin People in Burma, would like to express its deep appreciation to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for the historic steps taken during his visit to Burma, April, 29, 2012 to May, 1, 2012. During that time, the Secretary General met with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artists Launch Peace Movement and Fundraising Campaign for IDPs in Kacin State</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/artists-launch-peace-movement-and-fundraising-for-idps-in-kacin-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/artists-launch-peace-movement-and-fundraising-for-idps-in-kacin-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People's Voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kachin State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rangoon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=12436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A group of artist led by U Ye Lwin has launched an awareness raising and fundraising movement in Rangoon. The group performed in public areas such teashops and restaurants in Rangoon and collect donation for war-fled displaced people Kachin State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Political Prisoners Appeal the President for Release of Ko Aye Aung and Other Political Prisoners</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/former-political-prisoners-appeals-president-for-release-of-ko-aye-aung/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/former-political-prisoners-appeals-president-for-release-of-ko-aye-aung/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People's Voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appeal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burmese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ko Aye Aung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Prisoners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Thein Sein]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=12430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former political prisoners appealed to President Thein Sein for the release of Ko Aye Aung who was sentenced 59 years imprisonment since 1999 for his participation in a protest in Rangoon [...]

ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရက ၁၉၉၈ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့ၿပီး ပုဒ္မ ၅ (ည) ၊ ၁၇ (၂၀) ၊ ၁၇ (၁) တို႔ျဖင့္ ၁၉၉၉ ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္တြင္း အထူးတရားရံုးက ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၅၉ ႏွစ္နဲ႔ အက်ဥ္းခ်ထားသူ ဒဂံု အေ၀းသင္တကၠသိုလ္၊ ရူပေဗဒ အထူးျပဳ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy Activists Remain in Jail – Free Aye Aung!</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/democracy-activists-remain-in-jail-free-aye-aung/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/democracy-activists-remain-in-jail-free-aye-aung/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 04:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma Campaign UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Prisoners]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=12425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Burma Campaign UK today urged Jeremy Browne MP, British Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Burma, to push the military-backed government in Burma to investigate the numbers of remaining political prisoners in Burma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Community’s Premature Rewards Fail to Address Armed Conflict and Human Rights Violations in Burma</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/international-communitys-premature-rewards-fail-to-address-armed-conflict-and-human-rights-violations-in-burma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/international-communitys-premature-rewards-fail-to-address-armed-conflict-and-human-rights-violations-in-burma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma Partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ceasefire Negotiations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=12416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This briefer looks at the April by-elections, new laws that fail to protect the people, ongoing armed conflict, problematic development, sanctions, and offers recommendations to the international community and guidelines for investment in Burma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 &#8211; 13 May: New Peace Committee Offers Little Hope to Ethnic People</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/7-13-may-new-peace-committee-offers-little-hope-to-ethnic-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/7-13-may-new-peace-committee-offers-little-hope-to-ethnic-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weekly Highlights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=12400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Thein Sein government formed its new union-level peace committee comprised of a central committee and a working committee. Although the formation of the committee looks very encouraging to investors and gives another reason for Western countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Peace Committee Offers Little Hope to Ethnic People</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/new-peace-committee-offers-little-hope-to-ethnic-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/new-peace-committee-offers-little-hope-to-ethnic-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armed Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma Partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ceasefire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnic Nationalities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nationalities Federal Council]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=12401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Thein Sein government formed its new union-level peace committee comprised of a central committee and a working committee. Although the formation of the committee looks very encouraging to investors and gives another reason for Western countries to further lift sanctions, it gives little hope to the people of Kachin State who have lost both their homes and their faith in the President after he unsuccessfully and repeatedly ordered the Burma Army to halt offensives in Kachin State.

As with most of the reforms announced, much secrecy surrounds the new peace committee. There is little transparency regarding the process of its establishment and mandate. Apart from names of the central committee members, disclosed by an unofficial source, there is no other official information available about the central and working committees. The central committee headed by President Thein Sein and the 52-member working committee includes the Vice-Presidents, heads of States and Divisions, Members of Parliament, Ministers and the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>405 villagers from Maubin Township Reclaim Confiscated Lands</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/405-villagers-from-maubin-township-reclaim-confiscated-lands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/405-villagers-from-maubin-township-reclaim-confiscated-lands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 05:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental and Economic Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People's Voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Confiscation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Thein Sein]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=12413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[405 farmers from Maletto Village, Maubin Township, Irrawaddy Division sent an appeal letter to President Thein Sein on May 12 requesting help in reclaiming their farming lands confiscated by U Pai company. These more than 1,000 acres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors Urge Administration to Take Cautious Approach to Lifting Sanctions on Burma</title>
		<link>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/investors-urge-administration-to-take-cautious-approach-to-lifting-sanctions-on-burma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmapartnership.org/2012/05/investors-urge-administration-to-take-cautious-approach-to-lifting-sanctions-on-burma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 02:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Risk Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=12407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong><em>Investments Could Undermine Progress and Worsen Human Rights Abuses</em></strong>

Burma will remain a volatile area for business investment if the Obama Administration broadly relaxes U.S. sanctions, according to a dozen investors collectively managing more than $115 billion in assets. In a letter to President Obama, the investors cited concerns about the risk of derailing progress toward democracy and respect for human rights [...]]]></description>
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