Burma/Myanmar's international treaty obligations (observations by supervisory bodies)
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | The ICRC - its mission, role and mandate |
| Description/subject: | | "The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization
whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal
violence and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities
conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting
and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at
the origin of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList2/About_the_ICRC:Mandate |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | Forced Labour in Myanmar (Burma) |
| Date of publication: | | 02 July 1998 |
| Description/subject: | | "Report of the Commission of Inquiry
appointed under article 26 of the Constitution of the
International Labour Organization to examine
the observance by Myanmar of the
Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)"...Full Text (about 400 pages)
The central ILO report on forced labour in Burma.
Appendix III contains 246 interviews, largely with people from non-Burman ethnic groups - Chin, Rohingya, Arakanese, Karen, Karenni, Shan, Pa-O, Mon. The interviews cover forced labour, but also many other violations of human rights such as killings (executions), rape, torture, looting, forced relocation (forced displacement) violence against women, violence against children, looting. ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS:
forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration,
forced to move, displaced |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International Labour Office |
| Format/size: | | Main link (html by section); 2nd html link, complete text - for searching online (1800K); Word - for download (2010K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/myanmar-OBL.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/myanmar-COI-OBL.doc |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | The International Committee of the Red Cross as guardian of international humanitarian law |
| Date of publication: | | 01 March 1998 |
| Description/subject: | | The ICRC acts as the guardian of international humanitarian law, a complex role that is
closely connected with its own foundation and was later formally entrusted to it by the
international community. The article presents various aspects of this role and examines its
scope in the contemporary context. |
| Author/creator: | | Yves Sandoz |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 December 2010 |
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