http://www.burmapartnership.org Strenghtening Cooperation for a Free Burma Tue, 21 May 2013 10:20:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/13-19-may-president-thein-seins-us-visit-branded-by-broken-promises/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/13-19-may-president-thein-seins-us-visit-branded-by-broken-promises/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 13:14:33 +0000 http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16128 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/13-19-may-president-thein-seins-us-visit-branded-by-broken-promises/feed/ 0 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/president-thein-seins-us-visit-branded-by-broken-promises/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/president-thein-seins-us-visit-branded-by-broken-promises/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 13:08:26 +0000 <a href="/tag/burma-partnership/">Burma Partnership</a> http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16134 For the first time in nearly fifty years, President Thein Sein will visit the United States and meet with President Barack Obama today, 20 May. This follows the historic visit by President Obama to Burma six months ago. The visit is an opportunity for the White House to pressure Thein Sein to continue the reforms that have been taking place and highlight some of the concerns the United States, the international community and particularly the citizens of Burma have. The visit also represents the more troubling view that there has been a relaxing of the US policy of rewarding positive reforms with increased engagement and that there is more interest in the economic and geo-political benefits of the relationship than addressing and solving the very large problems that the people of Burma are facing inside their country today.
When President Obama visited Burma, Thein Sein made a series of pledges; he agreed to create a commission to review political prisoner cases with the aim of releasing all political prisoners from custody, to allow the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to open an office in the country, to adequately address religious violence, more specifically to hold those guilty of violence against Rohingya people accountable and address resettlement and citizenship issues, and finally to allow humanitarian organizations access to conflict areas [...]]]> http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/president-thein-seins-us-visit-branded-by-broken-promises/feed/ 0 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/phr-issues-report-documenting-massacre/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/phr-issues-report-documenting-massacre/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 06:56:43 +0000 <a href="/tag/physicians-for-human-rights/">Physicians for Human Rights</a> http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16141 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/phr-issues-report-documenting-massacre/feed/ 0 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/myanmar-must-avert-further-humanitarian-disaster/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/myanmar-must-avert-further-humanitarian-disaster/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 03:37:29 +0000 <a href="/tag/amnesty-international/">Amnesty International</a> http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16074 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/myanmar-must-avert-further-humanitarian-disaster/feed/ 0 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/reforming-telecommunications-in-burma/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/reforming-telecommunications-in-burma/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 02:32:02 +0000 <a href="/tag/human-rights-watch/">Human Rights Watch</a> http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16056 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/reforming-telecommunications-in-burma/feed/ 0 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/burma-telecoms-risk-complicity-in-surveillance-censorship/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/burma-telecoms-risk-complicity-in-surveillance-censorship/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 06:29:33 +0000 <a href="/tag/human-rights-watch/">Human Rights Watch</a> http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16111 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/burma-telecoms-risk-complicity-in-surveillance-censorship/feed/ 0 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/burma-new-doubts-about-pace-of-reforms/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/burma-new-doubts-about-pace-of-reforms/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 04:41:43 +0000 <a href="/tag/human-rights-watch/">Human Rights Watch</a> http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16089 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/burma-new-doubts-about-pace-of-reforms/feed/ 0 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/the-revenue-watch-2013-resource-governance-index/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/the-revenue-watch-2013-resource-governance-index/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 02:20:01 +0000 <a href="/tag/revenue-watch-institute/">Revenue Watch Institute</a> http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16049 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/the-revenue-watch-2013-resource-governance-index/feed/ 0 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/congressman-crowley-introduces-measure-to-renew-sanctions/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/congressman-crowley-introduces-measure-to-renew-sanctions/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 10:13:25 +0000 <a href="/tag/joe-crowley/">Joe Crowley Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives</a> http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16123 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/congressman-crowley-introduces-measure-to-renew-sanctions/feed/ 0 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/mnhrc-attends-celebration-for-idaho-in-rangoon/ http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/mnhrc-attends-celebration-for-idaho-in-rangoon/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 06:52:33 +0000 http://www.burmapartnership.org/?p=16115 http://www.burmapartnership.org/2013/05/mnhrc-attends-celebration-for-idaho-in-rangoon/feed/ 0