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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2013
    Myanmar

    WITH SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING A PHOTO ESSAY...Selected Land and Livelihood Impacts Along the Shwe Natural Gas and China-Myanmar Oil Transport Pipeline from Rakhine State to Mandalay Division..."Yesterday, we published a photo essay and companion report highlighting the severe impacts of the Shwe natural gas and Myanmar-China oil transport pipelines on the lives and livelihoods of local communities living around these mega-projects.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2014
    Myanmar

    Conclusion: "The Thilawa SEZ project is not clearly described and important information is missing
    throughout the EIA document. The public consultation process did not involve all relevant
    stakeholders, including affected communities, and did not provide sufficient information
    in any case. Consequently, the consultation process did not meet international standards
    and did not meet relevant JICA Guidelines. Had JICA provided adequate and appropriate
    support for the EIA according to its Guidelines, it could have assured that the project

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2015
    Myanmar

    A briefer on the Thilawa special economic zone....."Twice the Myanmar Government attempted to confiscate residential and farm land for
    the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), and twice they failed to properly follow Myanmar
    laws. In both the 1996/97 and 2013 attempts to confiscate lands, the government and
    private parties ignored the procedures and requirements of Myanmar law, including the
    Land Acquisition Act. The Myanmar Government failed to properly notify affected

  4. 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

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2006
    Myanmar

    In recent months, both China and India have signed agreements with the Burmese military junta
    indicating their willingness to buy gas from the proposed Shwe gas project in western Burma,
    with Thailand also expressing interest. If built, the Shwe project would be Burma’s largest gas
    development project ever. Matthew Smith and Naing Htoo analyse the events surrounding the
    recent agreements and the inevitable consequences if the project were to proceed...

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2011
    Myanmar

    ...This briefer focuses on the impacts of two of Burma’s largest energy projects, led
    by Chinese, South Korean, and Indian multinational corporations in partnership with the
    state-owned Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), Burmese companies, and Burmese
    state security forces. The projects are the Shwe Natural Gas Project and the Burma-China
    oil transport project, collectively referred to here as the “Burma-China pipelines.” The
    pipelines will transport gas from Burma and oil from the Middle East and Africa across

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2000
    Myanmar

    Three Western oil companies -- Total, Premier and Unocal -- bent on exploiting natural gas , entered partnerships with the brutal Burmese military regime. Since the early 1990's, a terrible drama has been unfolding in Burma. Three western oil companies -- Total, Premier, and Unocal -- entered into partnerships with the brutal Burmese miltary regime to build the Yadana and Yetagun natural gas pipelines.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 1996
    Myanmar

    #039;Total Denial' catalogues the systematic human rights abuses and environmental degradation perpetrated by SLORC as the regime seeks to consolidate its power base in the gas pipeline region. Further, the report shows that investment in projects such as the Yadana pipeline not only gives tacit approval and support to the repressive SLORC junta but also exacerbates the grave human rights and environmental problems in Burma....

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2007
    Myanmar

    Executive Summary: "This report describes how human rights and environmental abuses continue to be
    a serious problem in eastern Pegu division, Burma – specifi cally, in Shwegyin
    township of Nyaunglebin District. The heavy militarization of the region, the indiscriminate
    granting of mining and logging concessions, and the construction of
    the Kyauk Naga Dam have led to forced labor, land confi scation, extortion, forced
    relocation, and the destruction of the natural environment. The human consequences

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