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Rakhine State Needs Assessment September 2015
Rakhine State Needs Assessment September 2015 This document is published by the Center for Diversity and National Harmony with the support of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. Publisher : Center for Diversity and National Harmony No. 11, Shweli Street, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Offset : Public ation Date : September 2015 © All rights reserved. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Rakhine State, one of the poorest regions in Myanmar, has been plagued by communal problems since the turn of the 20th century which, coupled with protracted underdevelopment, have kept residents in a state of dire need. This regrettable situation was compounded from 2012 to 2014, when violent communal riots between members of the Muslim and Rakhine communities erupted in various parts of the state. Since the middle of 2012, the Myanmar government, international organisations and non-governmen- tal organisations (NGOs) have been involved in providing humanitarian assistance to internally dis- placed and conflict-affected persons, undertaking development projects and conflict prevention activ- ities. Despite these efforts, tensions between the two communities remain a source of great concern, and many in the international community continue to view the Rakhine issue as the biggest stumbling block in Myanmar’s reform process. The persistence of communal tensions signaled a need to address one of the root causes of conflict: crushing poverty. However, even as various stakeholders have attempted to restore normalcy in the state, they have done so without a comprehensive needs assessment to guide them. In an attempt to fill this gap, the Center for Diversity and National Harmony (CDNH) undertook the task of developing a source of baseline information on Rakhine State, which all stakeholders can draw on when providing humanitarian and development assistance as well as when working on conflict prevention in the state. -
General Assembly Distr.: General 5 August 2020
United Nations A/75/288 General Assembly Distr.: General 5 August 2020 Original: English Seventy-fifth session Item 72 (c) of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives Report on the implementation of the recommendations of the independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar Note by the Secretary-General The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of the recommendations of the independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar and on progress in the situation of human rights in Myanmar, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 42/3. * A/75/150. 20-10469 (E) 240820 *2010469* A/75/288 Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Summary The independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar issued two reports and four thematic papers. For the present report, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights analysed 109 recommendations, grouped thematically on conflict and the protection of civilians; accountability; sexual and gender-based violence; fundamental freedoms; economic, social and cultural rights; institutional and legal reforms; and action by the United Nations system. 2/17 20-10469 A/75/288 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 42/3, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to follow up on the implementation by the Government of Myanmar of the recommendations made by the independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar, including those on accountability, and to continue to track progress in relation to human rights, including those of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, in the country. -
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Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis (EMMA) Understanding the Fish Market System in Kyauk Phyu Township Rakhine State. Annex to the Final report to DfID Post Giri livelihoods recovery, Kyaukphyu Township, Rakhine State February 14 th 2011 – November 13 th 2011 August 2011 1 Background: Rakhine has a total population of 2,947,859, with an average household size of 6 people, (5.2 national average). The total number of households is 502,481 and the total number of dwelling units is 468,000. 1 On 22 October 2010, Cyclone Giri made landfall on the western coast of Rakhine State, Myanmar. The category four cyclonic storm caused severe damage to houses, infrastructure, standing crops and fisheries. The majority of the 260,000 people affected were left with few means to secure an income. Even prior to the cyclone, Rakhine State (RS) had some of the worst poverty and social indicators in the country. Children's survival and well-being ranked amongst the worst of all State and Divisions in terms of malnutrition, with prevalence rates of chronic malnutrition of 39 per cent and Global Acute Malnutrition of 9 per cent, according to 2003 MICS. 2 The State remains one of the least developed parts of Myanmar, suffering from a number of chronic challenges including high population density, malnutrition, low income poverty and weak infrastructure. The national poverty index ranks Rakhine 13 out of 17 states, with an overall food poverty headcount of 12%. The overall poverty headcount is 38%, in comparison the national average of poverty headcount of 32% and food poverty headcount of 10%. -
The Chittagonians in Colonial Arakan: Seasonal and Settlement Migrations Jacques Leider
The Chittagonians in Colonial Arakan: Seasonal and Settlement Migrations Jacques Leider To cite this version: Jacques Leider. The Chittagonians in Colonial Arakan: Seasonal and Settlement Migrations. Morten Bergsmo; Wolfgang Kaleck; Kyaw Yin Hlaing. Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law, 40, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, pp.177-227, 2020, Publication Series, 978-82-8348-134-1. hal- 02997366 HAL Id: hal-02997366 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02997366 Submitted on 10 Nov 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Public Domain Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law Morten Bergsmo, Wolfgang Kaleck and Kyaw Yin Hlaing (editors) E-Offprint: Jacques P. Leider, “The Chittagonians in Colonial Arakan: Seasonal and Settlement Migrations”, in Morten Bergsmo, Wolfgang Kaleck and Kyaw Yin Hlaing (editors), Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPub- lisher, Brussels, 2020 (ISBNs: 978-82-8348-133-4 (print) and 978-82-8348-134-1 (e- book)). This publication was first published on 9 November 2020. TOAEP publications may be openly accessed and downloaded through the web site https://www.toaep.org which uses Persistent URLs (PURLs) for all publications it makes available. -
Quarterly Performance Report from October 01, 2017 to December 31, 2017
DEFEAT MALARIA Defeat Malaria Quarterly Performance Report From October 01, 2017 to December 31, 2017 Submission Date: January 31, 2018 Agreement Number: AID-482-A-16-00003 Agreement Period: August 15, 2016 to August 14, 2021 AOR Name: Dr. Monti Feliciano Submitted by: May Aung Lin, Chief of Party University of Research Co., LLC. Room 602, 6th Floor, Shwe Than Lwin Condominium New University Ave. Rd., Bahan Township Yangon, Myanmar Email: [email protected] This document was produced by University Research Co., LLC (URC) for review and approval by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Table of Contents List of Tables ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ii List of Figures ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- iii ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- iv Executive Summary --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Defeat Malaria Goal and Objectives ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 Summary of Key Achievements (October – December 2017) ---------------------------------------------------- 9 Interventions and Achievements on Core Areas of Strategic Focus --------------------------------------------- 11 1. Achieving and sustaining scale of proven interventions through community and -
September 2020 1
SEPTEMBER 2020 1 SEPTEMBER 2020 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS MONTH IN REVIEW 4 CHRONOLOGY 7 ● POLITICAL PRISONERS 7 ○ ARRESTS 7 ○ CHARGES 8 ○ SENTENCES 12 ○ RELEASES 13 ○ ARRESTS BY EAO 14 ○ RELEASES BY EAO 14 ○ DISAPPEARANCES 14 ● RESTRICTIONS ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS 14 ● REFERENCES 22 SEPTEMBER 2020 3 MONTH IN REVIEW Freedom of Speech and Expression September 15 was the UN International Democracy Day. Democracy is “a form of government in which the people have the authority to choose their governing legislation.” However, the values and standards of democracy have not yet been established in Burma and the people’s authority over their daily lives and fundamental rights is fading. It is clearly shown that Burma is deviating from the path of democracy as those who exercise their right to freedom of speech and expression which is a fundamental right in democratization, face not only oppression and restrictions but arbitrary detentions and arrests. This September, freedom of speech and expression became more severely restricted. A total of 34 students and members of student unions from Rangoon, Mandalay, Meiktila Monywa, Pakokku and Pyay Townships were charged under Section 19 of PAPPL or Section 505(a)(b) of the Penal Code or Section 25 of the Natural Disaster Management Law for staging protests in related to the conflict in Arakan. Among them, 23 students were formally arrested and one was sentenced. In addition to this, four civilians were arrested. Moreover, Sithu Aung a.k.a Saung Kha was fined under Section 19 of PAPPL for protesting to reinstate internet services in Arakan and Chin states. -
Rakhine Death Toll Hits 67 As Govt Defends Soldiers
E H T MYANMARTIMES October 29 - November 4, 2012 Myanmar’s first international weekly Volume 33, No. 650 1200 Kyats Averting the apocalypse: U Thant’s finest hour By Douglas Long WITH all the hype in recent months about Myanmar ending 50 years of isolation, it bears remembering that the secretary general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971 was a top diplomat from Myanmar. It’s also worth noting that 50 years ago this month, this particular secretary general, U Thant, not only presided over the UN during the Cuban Missile Crisis — one the most dire international emergencies of the 20th century — but also played a key role in ensuring that the situation did not devolve into an apocalyptic frenzy of nuclear destruction. The crisis unfolded over 13 days in 1962, from October 16 to 28, after photos taken by U-2 spy plane pilot Richard Heyser alerted US president John F Kennedy to the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. This revelation led the US government to mull airstrikes on Cuba, but Mr Kennedy went against the advice of many Senate leaders and instead implemented a naval blockade. By October 24 the situation looked A man with a gunshot wound is treated at Kyauktaw Township Hospital in Rakhine State on October 25. Pic: Kaung Htet desperate: Reconnaissance photographs showed that the missiles in Cuba were in launch position and US and Soviet warships were engaged in a standoff, only a few hundred metres apart and pointing their weapons at one another. On the same day, the US military’s Rakhine death toll hits 67 five-level defense readiness condition (DEFCON) was advanced from Level 3 (increase in force readiness above normal readiness) to Level 2 (next step to nuclear war), still the highest in history. -
Rakhine State, Myanmar
World Food Programme S P E C I A L R E P O R T THE 2018 FAO/WFP AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY MISSION TO RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR 12 July 2019 Photographs: ©FAO/F. Del Re/L. Castaldi and ©WFP/K. Swe. This report has been prepared by Monika Tothova and Luigi Castaldi (FAO) and Yvonne Forsen, Marco Principi and Sasha Guyetsky (WFP) under the responsibility of the FAO and WFP secretariats with information from official and other sources. Since conditions may change rapidly, please contact the undersigned for further information if required. Mario Zappacosta Siemon Hollema Senior Economist, EST-GIEWS Senior Programme Policy Officer Trade and Markets Division, FAO Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, WFP E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Please note that this Special Report is also available on the Internet as part of the FAO World Wide Web www.fao.org Please note that this Special Report is also available on the Internet as part of the FAO World Wide Web www.fao.org at the following URL address: http://www.fao.org/giews/ The Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) has set up a mailing list to disseminate its reports. To subscribe, submit the Registration Form on the following link: http://newsletters.fao.org/k/Fao/trade_and_markets_english_giews_world S P E C I A L R E P O R T THE 2018 FAO/WFP AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY MISSION TO RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR 12 July 2019 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME Rome, 2019 Required citation: FAO. -
“Caged Without a Roof” Apartheid in Myanmar’S Rakhine State
“CAGED WITHOUT A ROOF” APARTHEID IN MYANMAR’S RAKHINE STATE Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. We are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations. © Amnesty International 2017 Except where otherwise noted, content in this document is licensed under a Creative Commons Cover photo: Rohingya children in a rural village in Buthidaung township, northern Rakhine State, (attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives, international 4.0) licence. March 2016. © Amnesty International. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode For more information please visit the permissions page on our website: www.amnesty.org Where material is attributed to a copyright owner other than Amnesty International this material is not subject to the Creative Commons licence. First published in 2017 by Amnesty International Ltd Peter Benenson House, 1 Easton Street London WC1X 0DW, UK Index: ASA 16/7436/2017 Original language: English amnesty.org CONTENTS TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS 8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 10 METHODOLOGY 16 1. BACKGROUND 19 1.1 A HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION AND PERSECUTION 20 1.2 THE 2012 VIOLENCE AND DISPLACEMENT 22 1.3 FURTHER VIOLENCE AND DISPLACEMENT: 2016 23 1.4 ARSA ATTACKS AND THE CAMPAIGN OF ETHNIC CLEANSING: 2017 24 1.5 THE POLITICAL CONTEXT 25 1.6 UNDERSTANDING ETHNIC RAKHINE GRIEVANCES 26 2. -
Conflict and Mass Violence in Arakan (Rakhine State): the 1942 Events and Political Identity Formation
Jacques P. Leider (Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, Yangon) February 2017 Conflict and mass violence in Arakan (Rakhine State): the 1942 events and political identity formation Following the Japanese invasion of Lower Burma in early 1942, the British administration in Arakan1 collapsed in late March/early April. In a matter of days, communal violence broke out in the rural areas of central and north Arakan (Akyab and Kyaukphyu districts). Muslim villagers from Chittagong who had settled in Arakan since the late 19th century were attacked, driven away or killed in Minbya, Myebon, Pauktaw and other townships of central Arakan. A few weeks later, Arakanese Buddhist villagers living in the predominantly Muslim townships of Maungdaw and Buthidaung were taken on by Chittagonian Muslims, their villages destroyed and people killed in great numbers. Muslims fled to the north while Buddhists fled to the south and from 1942 to 1945, the Arakanese countryside was ethnically divided between a Muslim north and a Buddhist south. Several thousand Buddhists and Muslims were relocated by the British to camps in Bengal. The unspeakable outburst of violence has been described with various expressions, such as “massacre”, “bitter battle” or “communal riot” reflecting different interpretations of what had happened. In the 21st century, the description “ethnic cleansing” would likely be considered as a legally appropriate term. Buddhists and Muslims alike see the 1942 violence as a key moment of their ongoing ethno-religious and political divide. The waves of communal clashes of 1942 have been poorly documented, sparsely investigated and rarely studied.2 They are not recorded in standard textbooks on Burma/Myanmar and, surprisingly, they were even absent from contemporary reports and articles that described Burma’s situation during and after World War 1 Officially named Rakhine State after 1989. -
Myanmar Humanitarian
Myanmar Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1 2020 © UNICEF/2020/MaungMaungOo Reporting Period: 1 to 31 January 2020 Highlights Situation in Numbers 362,000 • In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, UNICEF’s focus has been on child- friendly risk communication messages in a number of ethnic languages to children in need of promote good hygiene and hand-washing behaviors to reduce humanitarian assistance transmission and spread. UNICEF is also issuing a U-Report “chatbot” to (HNO 2020) provide basic information and advice reaching over 33,000 young people countrywide. 986,000 people in need • UNICEF and the Mine Risk Working Group (MRWG) recorded 36 casualties (HNO 2020) in January of whom 15 were children, and of five deaths, four were children. 274,000 internally displaced people • During the visit of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for (HNO 2020) Children and Armed Conflict, she acknowledged the progress made by the Government with regards to the 2012 Joint Action Plan on the recruitment and use of children and urged continued engagement and a new joint 470,000 action plan to better protect children and end killing, maiming and sexual non-displaced stateless in violence. Rakhine UNICEF’s Response and Funding Status UNICEF Appeal 2020 SAM Admission 4% US$ 46 million Nutrition Funding status 13% Funding Status (in US$) Access to healthcare 9% Carry- forward Health Funding status 11% $6M Hygiene items distributed 9% WASH Funding status 17% People with MHPSS 28% Child Funding Funding status 8% Protection gap $40M Children in school 31% Funding status 14% Education 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 1 Funding Overview and Partnerships UNICEF appeals for US$ 46.04 million to sustain provision of critical and life-saving services for children and their caregivers in Myanmar. -
Myebon Township - Rakhine State
Myanmar Information Management Unit Myebon Township - Rakhine State 93°15'E 93°20'E 93°25'E 93°30'E 93°35'E 93°40'E 93°45'E 20°20'N 20°20'N BHUTAN INDIA CHINA BANGLADESH Ü VIETNAM LAOS MINBYA THAILAND CAMBODIA 20°15'N 20°15'N Kyar Inn Taung (197349) (Shauk Chon) Shauk Chon (197347) (Shauk Chon) Kyant Hin Khar (197348) 20°10'N 20°10'N Thin Ga Net (197358) (Shauk Chon) (Thin Ga Net) Kyauk Nga Nwar (197286) Ka Paing Chaung (197335) (Kyauk Nga Nwar) (Pin Kat Chaung) Ah Lel Kyun (197257) (Ah Lel Kyun) Ah Twin Nga Khu Chaung (197258) (Ah Twin Nga Khu Chaung) Chaung Gyi (197336) (Pin Kat Chaung) Pin Kat Taung Maw (197332) Kant Kaw Chaung (197337) (Pin Kat Taung Maw) (Pin Kat Chaung) Kat Taung Swea (197334) Pin Kat Taung Auk (197333) (Pin Kat Taung Maw) PAUKTAW Wet Gaung (197280) (Pin Kat Taung Maw) (Gaung Hpyu) ANN Thar Yar Wa Di (197273) Bar Wai (197338) (Daing Bon) (Pin Kat Chaung) War Khoke Chaung (197370) Mi Kyaung Tet (197368) Myauk Kyein Paik Seik (217990) Ta Laing Pyin (197269) Kyauk Tan (197330) (Yet Chaung) (Yet Chaung) (Myauk Kyein) (Chon Chaung) Myauk Kyein (197303) (Pe Kauk) Pe Kauk (197329) Daing Bon (197271) (Pe Kauk) (Daing Bon) (Myauk Kyein) Dagon (197279) Chaung Shey (197340) (Gaung Hpyu) (Pin Kat Chaung) Tha Pyay Taw (197369) Ta Dar U (197304) (Yet Chaung) Lay Taung (197367) (Myauk Kyein) Kyauk Hpya Lar (197282) Nga Sin Pone (197339) (Yet Chaung) Kan Thar (197278) (Kyauk Hpya Lar) (Pin Kat Chaung) Yet Chaung (197366) Nga Man Ye Gyi (197306) (Gaung Hpyu) Pin Khar (197266) Gaung Hpyu (197277) (Yet Chaung) (Nga Man Ye Gyi) Pyin