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Citizenship in Myanmar: The Root of All Problems?

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်မှုသည္ ပြနာအားလုံး၏ရင်းမြစ်လော ?

This webinar, co-hosted by ISCI and BHRN, and conducted in English and Burmese, aims to build and re-enforce alliances on the issue of citizenship in order to work towards 'defusing' the ethnic conflicts which the thorny issue of citizenship fuels. The Burma/Myanmar ‘1982 Citizenship law’ is both unjust and discriminatory. Legislative reform is seen by those seeking to influence the Burma/Myanmar government as crucial to addressing some of the country's most pressing human rights violations. Our speakers will delve into the history and application of the relevant law as well as facilitating conversations around the re-imagination of what belonging and citizenship means, and what it could mean to be 'Burmese' post military dictatorship. The aim of the webinar is to kick-start conversations and promote sustainable campaigns to allow the notion of citizenship to be debated and redefined from within Burma/Myanmar. Four short talks will be followed by a Q&A for about 25 minutes.

ယခုပြုလုပ်သည့် အွန်လိုင်းဆွေးနွေးပွဲကို ISCI နှင့် BHRN (မြန်မာ့လူ့အခွင့်အရေးကွန်ရက်) တို့မှ မြန်မာ-အင်္ဂလိပ် နှစ်ဘာသာဖြင့် ပြုလုပ်ပြီး၊ နိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်ရေး ပြဿနာ မှ အဓိက မီးမွှေးနေသည့် လူမျိုးရေးအခြေပြု အငြင်းပွားမှု များကို ပြေလည်အောင်ဖြေရှင်းရန် ရည်ရွယ်သည့် မဟာမိတ်အဖွဲ့များ အားကောင်းစွာ တည်ဆောက်နိုင်ရန် ရည်ရွယ်ပါသည်။

၁၉၈၂ ခုနှစ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသားဥပဒေသည် ခွဲခြားဆက်ဆံ ပြီး၊ တရားမမျှတသည့် ဥပဒေတစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ဥပဒေပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲရေးသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်းတွင် ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေသော အဆိုးရွားဆုံး လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်မှုများကို ဖြေရှင်းရာတွင် အဓိကကျပါသည်ဟု မြန်မာအစိုးရနင့် အလုပ်လုပ်လိုသူများက ရှုမြင်ပါသည်။

ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးသူများသည် သက်ဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ၏ သမိုင်းကြောင်းနှင့် လက်တွေ့တွင် အသုံးပြုပုံများကို ဆွေးနွေးတင်ပြသွားမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး၊ လူသားတစ်ဦးအနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်မှုနှင့် ထိုနိုင်ငံနှင့် ဆက်နွယ်မှု တို့ကို ပြန်လည် စဉ်းစားကာ၊ စစ်အာဏာရှင်ခေတ်အလွန် တွင် မြန်မာလူမျိုး၊ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသား ဆိုသည်မှာ အဘယ်နည်းဆိုတာကို ဆွေးနွေးသွားမည် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

ယခုဆွေးနွေးပွဲပြုလုပ်ရသည့် ရည်ရွယ်ချက်မှာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်းတွင် နိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်မှုနှင့်ပတ်သတ်သည့် သဘောတရားများကို စတင်ဆွေးနွေးလာစေရန်နှင့် ထိုအကြောင်း အရာနှင့်ပတ်သတ်သည့် ကမ်ပိန်းလှုပ်ရှားမှုများပိုထွန်းကားလာရန်လည်း ရည်ရွယ်ပါသည်။ ဒါ့အပြင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်းတွင် နိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်မှုနှင့်ပတ်သတ်သည့် သဘောတရားများကို အသစ်ပြန်လည် သတ်မှတ်နိုင်ရန်လည်း ရည်ရွယ်ပါသည်။

၂၅မိနစ်စာ ဆွေးနွေးမှုလေးခုကို အမေးအဖြေ ကဏ္ဍ ပါထည့်၍ ပြုလုပ်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

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February 07 2018, 21:44
MONOLOGUE FOR TWO:
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
KYAW WIN

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    {{ Kyaw Win }} is the founder and Executive Director of the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) in London. He leads several different teams inside of Myanmar who are documenting human rights violations, violation of freedom of religion, the spread of hate speech and anti-Muslim pogroms.

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    He worked as research assistant in several research project funded by government and non-government organization. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 International peer-reviewed journal articles and presented research work in 9 international conferences and published 8 book chapters. I was awarded as young scientist by International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in 2012, Zamalah research fellowship and best PhD research presenter in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia SPSA 2012. I was involved in Rohingya activity since childhood and actively serving as a member of Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) since 1999. He started working with ARNO as student member, in-charge education and youth development projects, representative in Malaysia till 2015. Currently, He is serving as ARNO central committee member, chair of Information and media department and representative for the United States of America.

    {{ Khin Ohmar }} is an experienced human rights, peace, justice and gender equality advocate from Burma and founder and chairperson of the Advisory Board of Progressive Voice, a local human rights research and advocacy organization.

    {{ Rachel Fleming }} is an independent consultant and human rights researcher who has spent 12 years working on human rights issues in Burma/Myanmar. Rachel primarily works to support local human rights organisations in their vital efforts to bring to light human rights violations, especially those impacting marginalised groups. She holds an MA in Human Rights Law with Distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

    Location
    ZOOM
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  • ‘The Challenges of Human Rights in Burma’

    ‘The Challenges of Human Rights in Burma’

    ‘The Challenges of Human Rights in Burma’

    Tue, 19 November 2019
    13:00 – 14:30 GMT

    Kyaw Win is the founder and Executive Director of the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) in London. He leads several different teams inside of Myanmar who are documenting human rights violations, violation of freedom of religion, the spread of hate speech and anti-Muslim pogroms.

    Location
    University of Essex Colchester Campus
    Human Rights Seminar room, 5S.6.25
    Colchester
    CO4 3SQ

  • MYANMAR'S KILLING FIELDS + Q&A (12A)

    MYANMAR'S KILLING FIELDS + Q&A (12A)

    Sunday 28 Apr 2019, 13:00
    Membership discount will be applied after selecting your tickets

  • JUSTICE FOR ROHINGYA MINORITY

    JUSTICE FOR ROHINGYA MINORITY

  • The ROHINGYA crisis : 6 Months on

    The ROHINGYA crisis : 6 Months on

  • Religious Intolerance in Burma

    Religious Intolerance in Burma

  • Human Rights and Violence In Regional ASEAN

    Human Rights and Violence In Regional ASEAN

  • PERSECUTION OF MUSLIMS IN BURMA

    PERSECUTION OF MUSLIMS IN BURMA