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• Burma Sanctions – Losing both carrot and stick - Irrawaddy. April 12, 2012
• Burma set to enter 'dual ruling party' era - Irrawaddy. April 12, 2012
• UN security council hails Burmese by-elections - Irrawaddy. April 12, 2012
• Burma holds landmark political talks with Karen rebels - Reuters. April 6, 2012
• US supports 'reformers' in Burma with sanction cuts - Sydney Morning Herald. April 6, 2012
• McCain calls for lifting of sanctions - Irrawaddy. April 4, 2012
• Southeast Asian leaders: Lift Myanmar sanctions - Associated Press. April 4, 2012
• The Burmese elections - Turn Left Thailand. April 3, 2012
• Suu Kyi's party wins 43 seats in Myanmar parliament - Associated Press. April 3, 2012
• Myanmar leader praises elections as 'successful' - Associated Press. April 3, 2012
• Joy in the streets as voters embrace Suu Kyi - Sydney Morning Herald. April 2, 2012
• Myanmar opposition claims landmark Suu Kyi win - Agence France Presse. April 2, 2012
• A seat at the table for Suu Kyi after cruel wait - Sydney Morning Herald. March 31, 2012
• Suu Kyi cites widespread poll irregularities - Associated Press. March 30, 2012
• Advance voters cry foul - Irrawaddy. March 30, 2012
• NLD voters complain of exclusion from register - Irrawaddy. March 29, 2012
• Burma among worst for religious freedom: Report - Irrawaddy. March 29, 2012
• Burmese army chief defends political role - Irrawaddy. March 27, 2012
• Burmese legal system remains tool of Government: Asian Human Rights Commission - Irrawaddy. March 27, 2012
• The 'virtuous circle' of carrot & stick sanctions - Irrawaddy. March 27, 2012
• Myanmar exiles test government's promise of change - Associated Press. March 26, 2012
• Government sincerity key to civil war endgame - Irrawaddy. March 24, 2012
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• Burma: Cynical manipulation of legal system prefigures continued authoritarianism - Asian Human Rights Commission Statement. March 26, 2012
• Burma: Reforms yet to reach Kachin state - Human Rights Watch Press Release. March 20, 2012
• Burma: New law on demonstrations falls short - Human Rights Watch Statement. March 15, 2012
• Burma: Women's Day – No protection for women - Asian Human Rights Commission Statement. March 8, 2012
• Burma: Prisoners released and others still detained - Asian Human Rights Commission Urgent Appeal. February 3, 2012
• Burma: Promises of change, but abuses continue - Human Rights Watch Statement. January 24, 2012
• Burma: Political prisoners released - Human Rights Watch Statement. January 13, 2012
• Myanmar: Political prisoner release 'major step' but gates must open 'even wider' - Amnesty International News Release. January 13, 2012
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• 'Untold Miseries' – Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Burma’s Kachin State. Human Rights Watch March 20, 2012
• World Report 2012: Burma - Human Rights Watch. January 23, 2012
• Burma: From blinkered to market-oriented despotism? – Asian Human Rights Commission report. December 9, 2011 (PDF format)
• Burma's Covered Up War: Atrocities Against the Kachin People - Kachin Women's Association of Thailand (KWAT). October 2011
• Human Rights in Myanmar - Amnesty International Report. May 2011
• Human rights situation in Burma - Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma - May 18, 2011
• World Report Burma 2011 - Human Rights Watch. February 2011
• Torture, Political Prisoners and the UN-Rule of Law: Challenges to Peace, Security and Human Rights in Burma - Association of Southeast Asian Nations Human Right Conference Report. October 19, 2010 (PDF format)
• World Report Burma 2010 - Human Rights Watch. January 2010
• Human Rights in Union of Myanmar - Amnesty International Report 2010
• Burma's Forgotten Prisoners - Human Rights Watch. September, 2009 (PDF format)
• The Resistance of the Monks: Buddhism and Activism in Burma - Human Rights Watch. September, 2009 (PDF format)
• Perilous Plight: Burma’s Rohingya Take to the Seas - Human Rights Watch. May, 2009 (PDF format)
• “I Want to Help My Own People” - State Control and Civil Society in Burma after Cyclone Nargis - Human Rights Watch. April 28, 2010
• World Report Burma 2009 - Human Rights Watch. January 14, 2009
• Human Rights in Union of Myanmar - Amnesty International Report 2009
• “We Are Like Forgotten People” - The Chin People of Burma: Unsafe in Burma, Unprotected in India - Human Rights Watch. January, 2009 (PDF format)
• Vote to Nowhere - The May 2008 Constitutional Referendum in Burma - Human Rights Watch. May, 2008 (PDF format)
• World Report Burma 2008 - Human Rights Watch. January 31, 2008
• Human Rights in Union of Myanmar - Amnesty International Report 2008
• Crackdown - Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma - Human Rights Watch. December, 2007 (PDF format)
• Sold to be Soldiers - The Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers in Burma - Human Rights Watch. October, 2007 (PDF format)
• World Report Burma 2007 - Human Rights Watch. January 11, 2007
• Human Rights in Union of Myanmar - Amnesty International Report 2007
• World Report Burma 2006 - Human Rights Watch. January 18, 2006
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Thai Policy toward Burmese Refugees - Human Rights Watch. February, 2004 (PDF format)

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