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Information is empowering

{ Posted on Sep 10 2009 by admin }
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Categories : Burma, Solidarity, Spring 2009
Burmese migrant workers in Thailand have been learning about their rights in UnionAID project training delivered by our partner, the Federation of Trade Unions of Burma. 19 training courses were held during 2008 to plantation workers in the Phawphra district where ...Read More »

Leadership Training for Women

{ Posted on Sep 10 2009 by admin }
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Categories : Burma, Solidarity, Spring 2009
A new three year UnionAID project with Burmese migrant workers will have a strong focus on leadership training for women. The project has been approved under the NZAID KOHA-PICD programme which will mean that $4 will be paid by Government ...Read More »

Project Leader in Mae Sot

{ Posted on Sep 10 2009 by admin }
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Categories : Burma, Solidarity, Spring 2009
Saw Min Lwin is the project leader of the joint UnionAID –FTUB project in Mae Sot, Thailand.  Min is well known to many unionists in Wellington because he spent six months here in 2003. Min is also the International Human Rights ...Read More »

Young Leaders for Burma

{ Posted on Sep 10 2009 by admin }
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Categories : Burma, Solidarity, Spring 2009
Six young community leaders from Burma are at Victoria University for 6 months under a UnionAID project jointly funded by NZAID. The  programme is divided between English language tuition and a specially designed course in development studies. The young leaders will also ...Read More »

Rich pickings: how trade and investment keep the Burmese junta alive and kicking

{ Posted on Jun 29 2009 by admin }
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In September 2007, the Burmese people mobilised their largest social and political uprising since 1988. Thousands of monks and ordinary people marched to protest grinding poverty and the country’s repressive military dictatorship. The resulting crackdown by the regime was news ...Read More »

Repression in Burma

{ Posted on Jun 29 2009 by admin }
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In September 2007 thousands of Burmese monks and citizens came out onto the streets to demonstrate against grinding poverty and the military dictatorship. Burma had not seen a social and political protest on this scale since 1998. But the repressive response ...Read More »

Spotlight interview with Maung Maung (Federation of Trade Unions of Burma)

{ Posted on Jun 29 2009 by admin }
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"We have offshore oil and gas. We sell it to Thailand and we are supposed to sell it to China and India, but where is the electricity for the population? In Rangoon, at night, they have to alternate the electricity ...Read More »

Photos of vigil for Aung San Suu Kyi

{ Posted on May 22 2009 by admin }
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Video: Vigil for Aung San Suu Kyi

{ Posted on May 22 2009 by admin }
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Vigil held at Midland Park in Wellington on 21 May 2009. Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested by the regime and is in Burma's notorious Insein prison. She faces trial for breaking the terms of her house arrest ...Read More »