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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2014
    Myanmar

    ...[O]n 19th June, 2012, the President of the Union guided on the following land reform matters to draw and implement the national development long term and short term plans: (a) To manage, calculate, use and carry out systematically the Sustainable Development of natural resources such as land, water, forest, mines to enable to use them future generations; (b)To manage and carry out systematically the land use policy and land use management not to cause land problems such as land use, land fluctuation and land trespass; (c) To disburse, coordinate and carry out with the Union Government, t

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2001
    Myanmar

    People from Burma have become the major group of displaced persons in Thailand. Most of them are currently being sheltered
    along the Thai-Burma border, particularly in the Thai provinces of Mae Hong Son, Tak, Kanchanaburi and Ranong. It is
    estimated that there are some 40,000 children from Burma under the age of 15 accompanying their parents. In addition,
    thousands of unaccompanied children are driven across the border by the desperate circumstances in Burma. ...

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2016
    Myanmar

    Executive Summary: "Recently, much attention surrounding Burma has focused on the democratic reform, 2015 elections and the future of the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led Government, whilst a profound humanitarian crisis and continuing concerns of the ethnic minority communities in the southeast have been largely ignored. The recent story of political and economic reform has insufficiently addressed the ongoing struggles of internally displaced persons (IDPs), as they become an inconvenient truth rendered invisible by the larger reform narrative.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 1997
    Myanmar

    ...This report, "Migrating With Hope: Burmese Women Working In Thailand and
    The Sex Industry" attempts to present and highlight the needs, interests, and
    realities of undocumented migrant women from Burma working as sex-workers
    in Thailand. We look at the lives of women in Burma, the migration processes,
    processes of entry into the sex-industry, and factors which govern women's wellbeing
    or suffering during the time of migration in Thailand. The authors hope

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2009
    Myanmar

    10,000 Shans uprooted, 500 houses burned in Burmese regime’s latest scorched earth campaign (press release)...

    Map of villages forcibly relocated...

    Summary of villages forcibly relocated...

    Images of the Burmese regime's latest scorched earth campaign

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2006
    Myanmar

    This Handbook is designed for both farmers and students to use in the field and during training. It is divided into eight sections, each one containing several topics and all illustrated with large clear pictures. The Handbook can be read from beginning to end or each topic can be read separately. Space is provided for readers to take notes and to add their own local knowledge...Our people have always been farmers. Farmers of the river lands, of the mountains, and of the forests.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2003
    Myanmar

    In Thailand's Tak province there
    are 60,520 registered migrant
    workers and an estimated 150,000
    unregistered migrant workers from
    Burma. Fleeing the social and political
    problems engulfing Burma, they are
    mostly employed in farming, garment
    making, domestic service, sex and
    construction industries. There is also
    a significant number of Burmese
    living in camps. Despite Thailand�s
    developed public health system and
    infrastructure, Burmese women face
    language and cultural barriers and

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2009
    Myanmar

    Message from KDNG: "As a network of residents of Kachin State, we, the Kachin Development Networking Group, have been monitoring plans by the stateowned China Power Investment Corporation and Burma’s military regime to build seven dams on the Irrawaddy River and its two main tributaries. In 2007 we published the report, "Damming the Irrawaddy" which surveyed the environment and peoples in the affected area and analyzed the negative impacts of these dams. Today construction of the 2,000-megawatt Chibwe Dam on the N’Mai River is already underway.

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