Letters

OPEN LETTER: URGENT CALL FOR SWIFT ACTION AGAINST THE MILITARY JUNTA TO END ITS WAR OF TERROR AND PROTECT CIVILIANS IN MYANMAR

February 1, 2024 | WPN, Progressive Voice, General Strike Committee of Nationalities, CDM Medical Network, and 450+ organizations

As we mark the third anniversary of the Myanmar military junta’s coup attempt on 1 February 2021, we, 462 civil society organizations, express in the strongest terms our utmost disappointment in the ineffectiveness and inaction of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in response to the military junta’s war of terror against the people of Myanmar. We urgently call on the UNSC to act in accordance with its mandate for peace and security and take concrete actions against the Myanmar military junta.

Open Letter: The UN General Assembly must take decisive action to hold the military junta accountable for atrocities in Myanmar

October 17, 2023 | Progressive Voice, Myaung Youth Network, Karenni National Women’s Organization, Human Rights Foundation of Monland, Karen Human Rights Group, and 434 organizations

We – 440 Myanmar, regional, and international civil society organizations – call on Member States of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to take immediate and decisive action to hold the Myanmar military accountable under international law through all possible avenues.

OPEN LETTER: THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL’S MEETING ON MYANMAR MUST LEAD TO FIRM MEASURES AGAINST THE JUNTA

April 17, 2023 | Progressive Voice, Chin Human Rights Organization, Youths for Community Myaung, and 543 organizations

We, the undersigned 546 Myanmar, regional and international civil society organizations (CSOs), welcome the United Kingdom’s request for an urgent Security Council discussion on Myanmar to address the illegal military junta’s worst civilian massacre since its failed coup, as well as the junta’s categorical refusal to comply with Security Council Resolution 2669 on Myanmar (December 2022).

open letter to UK foreign secretary calling for sanctions on aviation fuel

December 9, 2022 | Karen Peace Support Network, Progressive Voice, Burma Campaign UK, and 513 organizations

To mark International Human Rights Day and in solidarity with the Myanmar people who bravely continue to defend their rights and democracy against the Myanmar military junta, we, the 516 undersigned Myanmar, regional and international organizations, call on the Government of the United Kingdom (UK Government) to immediately take action to ensure no British companies is involved, directly or indirectly, in the supply of aviation fuel to the Myanmar military junta.

Open Letter to ASEAN Defence Ministers

June 15, 2022 | 677 organizations

We, the undersigned 677 Myanmar, regional and international civil society organisations appeal to you not to extend an invitation to the Myanmar military junta’s Minister of Defence at the upcoming ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM).

HOLD MYANMAR MILITARY ACCOUNTABLE FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

March 22, 2021 | Women’s Peace Network and 190 organizations

Marking the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, we, Women’s Peace Network, and the undersigned organizations working for women’s rights and against gender-based violence, call upon the UN Security Council to hold the Myanmar military accountable for grievously violating the human rights of women.

159 MYANMAR ORGANIZATIONS TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO IMMEDIATELY INTERVENE TO PROTECT CIVILIANS FROM THE BURMA/MYANMAR SECURITY FORCES’ USE OF VIOLENCE, AND END CYCLE OF IMPUNITY

March 3, 2021 | Women’s Peace Network, Women’s League of Burma, and 157 organizations

We, the undersigned Burma/Myanmar organizations, urge the UN Security Council to hold the Burma/Myanmar military and security forces accountable for their illegitimate seizure of power on February 1 and continued assault on the people’s rights to life, liberty, free speech, and assembly.

An open letter from Myanmar civil society organizations to the UN Security Council

February 12, 2021 | Progressive Voice, Human Rights Foundation of Monland, Karen Human Rights Group, Kachin Women’s Association Thailand, and 173 organizations

We, the 177 undersigned Myanmar civil society organizations, call on the Council for urgent enhanced monitoring and intervention, including by dispatching a delegation to Myanmar to mediate between all parties concerned to respond to the political crisis and protect the people as the situation on the ground is quickly evolving.

Open Letter from Civil Society Organizations calling on the Council’s immediate action to ensure the protection of demonstrators

February 5, 2021| FORUM-ASIA, Progressive Voice, and 75 organizations

We are writing to express our deep concern over the safety of the peaceful demonstrators in Myanmar and urge you to take immediate action to ensure their protection and their fundamental right to freedom of peaceful assembly, expression and information.