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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2003
    Myanmar

    The plight of Burma's internally displaced persons has largely been overlooked by the
    international community and the Burmese government itself. Villagers in the country's war
    zones nevertheless have suffered for decades the adverse effects of conflict. For some,
    displacement has become a way of life and a multi-generational phenomenon.
    Displacement wherever it occurs profoundly changes the persons forced to move. People
    lose belongings, jobs, and loved ones. The case of the internally displaced in southern Shan
    State is no different.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2003
    Myanmar

    1. Introduction 1;
    2. Historical Context and Current Implications of the State Taking Control
    of People, Land and Livelihood 2;
    2.1. Under the Democratically Elected Government 2;
    2.1.1. The Land Nationalization Act 1953 2;
    2.1.2. The Agricultural Lands Act 1953 2;
    3. Under the Revolutionary Council (1962-1974) 2;
    3.1. The Tenancy Act 1963 3;
    3.2. The Protection of the Right of Cultivation Act, 1963 3;
    4. The State Gains Further Control over the Livelihoods of Households 3;

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2003
    Myanmar

    In a nation of 50 million people there are estimates that up to 1 million are Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). Despite the relatively recent use of the phrase internally displaced people in the context of Burma, there is evidence that the practices that lead to this displacement have been in place for a long period of time.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2003
    Myanmar

    Commission on Human Rights
    59th Session

    Item 10: Economic, social and cultural rights

    "...

    It is in the remote parts of Myanmar that the worst abuses of the right to food continue. Within recent weeks, the Asian Legal Resource Centre has spoken with persons travelling in some of these areas. They have told of thousands of people displaced from their lands, some for years, starving in the jungle. One who carried an emaciated child to a Thai town just across the border spoke of the utter shock and disbelief among medical staff at the child?s condition...

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2003
    Myanmar

    ...In the last four years, the Burmese army based in Mon State has confiscated thousands acres of farmland. The farmers whose land had been confiscated were not given any compensation. They have no opportunity to take legal actions against the army. As a result, many farmers who lost their lands left to Thailand to seek employment. Those who stayed in villages and towns became landless and jobless..." Land confiscation by the Burmese military - description, analysis and case studies.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2003
    Myanmar

    TABLE OF CONTENTS:-
    1. Food Security from a Rights-based Perspective;
    2. Local Observations from the States and Divisions
    of Eastern Burma:-
    2.1 Tenasserim Division
    (Committee for Internally Displaced Karen Persons);
    2.2 Mon State (Mon Relief and Development Committee);
    2.3 Karen State (Karen Human Rights Group)
    2.4 Eastern Pegu Division (Karen Office of Relief and Development);
    2.5 Karenni State (Karenni Social Welfare Committee);
    2.6 Shan State (Shan Human Rights Foundation)...

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2003
    Myanmar

    #039;Capitalizing on Conflict' presents information illustrating how trade in timber, gems,
    and gold is financing violent conflict, including widespread and gross human rights
    abuses, in Burma. Although trade in these “conflict goods” accounts for a small
    percentage of the total global trade, it severely compromises human security and
    undermines socio-economic development, not only in Burma, but throughout the
    region.
    Ironically, cease-fire agreements signed between the late 1980s and early 1990s

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2003
    Myanmar

    Burma’s poverty means that even providing funerals for loved ones can be difficult if not impossible. But a new social welfare association is lending a helping hand...

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2003
    Myanmar

    The situation of internally displaced people (IDPs), in Burma remained critical throughout 2002. The U.S. State Department’s country report for 2002 on Burma estimated that forced relocations had produced hundreds of thousands of refugees, with as many as one million internally displaced persons.

    "Throughout 2002 the military continued to forcibly relocate minority villages, especially in areas where ethnic activists and rebels were active, and in areas targeted for the development of international tourism." (Human Rights Watch World Report 2003)

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