Word: burma
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Buddhist monk, an international activist and a religion professor gathered at the Yenching Building last night to discuss the Asian view of human rights as it applies to Burma...
Rewata Dhamma, a Buddhist monk and native of Burma, emphasized the role his religion could play in enhancing human rights in his homeland...
Sidney Jones, executive director of Asia Watch, a human rights organization, outlined several goals towards which the international community should strive in dealing with Burma. Many of these objectives, she noted, would keep the military regime--the State Law and Order Restoration Committee (SLORC)--from attaining full-fledged legitimacy in the eyes of the world...
...other panelists yesterday were Joan French, who coordinates the Caribbean Policy Development Centre, and Aye Aye Thant, chair of Friends of Burma at Harvard...
...package sex tours, who is to object? Only recently has anyone begun to ask how many of Thailand's 2 million prostitutes are minors; how many have been sold by parents or husbands as indentured servants to brothel owners; and how many have been kidnapped from villages in Burma, Laos and southern China to service the new breed of tourist. A 1991 conference of Southeast Asian women's organizations estimated that 30 million women had been sold worldwide since the mid-1970s. Such figures are at best guesses and at worst only the tip of the iceberg. "The sex industry...