Showing posts with label Burma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burma. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Congress Passes National Defense Authorization Bill with Various Provisions Impacting Religion

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A press release  from the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee reports that on Thursday the U.S. Senate passed the James M. Inhofe National ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

U.S. Labels Burmese Military's Treatment Of Rohingya As Genocide

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In a speech ( full text ) yesterday at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that the Un...
Thursday, December 09, 2021

Product Liability/ Negligence Suit Against Facebook Seeks $150B On Behalf Of Rohingya Refugees

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An unusual class action lawsuit was filed this week against Facebook in a California state trial court on behalf of all Rohingya refugees in...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

USCIRF Hearing On Citizenship Laws and Religious Freedom

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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom held a hearing yesterday on Citizenship Laws and Religious Freedom.  The hearing focu...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

Trump Extends Some Travel Ban Restrictions To Six More Countries

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In an exceptionally long Presidential Proclamation ( full text ), President Trump on Friday extended tailored restrictions under his controv...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

U.S. Sanctions Top Burmese Military Leaders For Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya

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Yesterday U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced  that four top Burmese military leaders and their immediate families will be barred ...
Monday, April 16, 2018

USCIRF Issues New Report On Religious Freedom Challenges In Burma

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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has recently issued an update on religious freedom challenges in Burma. ( Full text o...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Burma's Parliament Passes Controversial Religious Conversion and Monogamy Laws

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According to Human Rights Watch , on Aug. 21 Burma's joint parliament passed two bills that violate human rights and threaten to entrenc...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Rights Group Urges Burma's President To Reject Parliament's Buddhist Women's Marriage Law

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In a July 9 statement , Human Rights Watch called on Burma's President Thein Sein to refuse to sign the Myanmar Buddhist Women’s Special...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Burmese Court Gives 30 Month Sentences To Bar Owner and Manager For Buddha Facebook Ad

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BBC News reported yesterday that a court in Myanmar has found the manager of the upscale VGastro Bar in Yangon (a New Zealander), along wit...
Friday, January 23, 2015

USCIRF Criticizes Pending Legislation In Burma

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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in a press release yesterday strongly condemned a package of race and religion bills...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Facebook Ad In Burma Lands Bar Managers In Jail For Insulting Religion

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A court in Yangon, Burma yesterday denied bail to the owner and two managers of VGastro, a new upscale bar and tapas restaurant in the city&...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Burma Sues Author For Insultig Buddhism

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In Burma last month, an official of the Department of Immigration in northwestern Chaung-U Township, at the request of local Buddhist clergy...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Obama Urges Equality For Religious Minorities In Burma

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In Burma yesterday, President Obama held a joint news conference ( full text ) with opposition politician Daw Aung San Suu Kyi . Asked about...
Monday, November 10, 2014

USCIRF Issues Report On Burma As Obama Visit Approaches

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In advance of President Obama's trip to Burma (Myanmar) later this week, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Buddhist Group Presses Burma Parliament To Restrict Interfaith Marriage

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According to a report yesterday from The Irrawaddy , in Burma the influential Association for the Protection of Race and Religion (known as ...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

USCIRF Criticizes Burma's Proposed Religious Conversion Law

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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a press release yesterday strongly criticizing the draft of the Religious Con...