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  1. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    octobre, 2007
    Myanmar

    Executive Summary: "The Irrawaddy, one of Asia's great river systems which flows through Burma's heartlands, is about to be dammed. Burma's military junta is allowing Chinese companies to build a giant 152-meter-tall hydropower dam and transmit the electricity back to China. The dam is one in a series that the junta has planned involving the export of power to neighboring countries. While the regime will gain new revenues, Burma's ordinary citizens, who have no say in the process, will bear the costs.

  2. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    juin, 2007
    Myanmar

    Background:
    Burmese Refugees in Thailand:
    2006 Demographics of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Thailand ;
    Thai Government Policy towards Refugees and Asylum Seekers;
    Change of the Thai Government;
    Policy for Refugees in the Camps;
    Detained, Arrested and Deported Refugees;
    The UNHCR and the Refugee Status Determination Process;
    Situation of Women in Refugee Camps;
    Situation of Children in Refugee Camps;
    Situation of Specific Ethnic Groups of the Refugee Population;

  3. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    décembre, 2007
    Myanmar

    At night the Shweli has always sung sweet songs for us.
    But now the nights are silent and the singing has stopped.
    We are lonely and wondering what has happened to our
    Shweli?" ... "Exclusive photos and testimonies from a remote village near the China-Burma border uncover how Chinese dam builders are using Burma Army troops to secure Chinese investments. Under the Boot, a new report by Palaung researchers, details the implementation of the Shweli Dam project, China's first Build-Operate-Transfer hydropower deal with Burma's junta.

  4. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    janvier, 2007
    Myanmar

    Introduction:
    "The shifting nature of conflict in Burma over the past fifteen years has structured a range of
    inter-linked displacement crises. In this paper, three main types of forced migration in – and
    from – the country are identified: Type 1 – armed-conflict-induced displacement; Type 2 –
    State/society-induced displacement; and Type 3 – livelihood/vulnerability-induced
    displacement. Each is addressed in a case study, with material drawn from different
    geographic areas, illustrating different aspects and impacts of (armed and state-society)

  5. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    mai, 2007
    Myanmar

    Landmines continued to be deployed in Burma during 2006. According to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), only three countries; namely: Burma, Nepal and Russia, continued to use landmines during 2006; with the most extensive use reported to have occurred in Burma. [1] Meanwhile, there is a growing international consensus on the need to ban the use of landmines across the globe.

  6. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    mai, 2007
    Myanmar

    Burmese residents of a US city still find it hard to escape the politics of their homeland...

    "Than Myint arrived in the “land of opportunities” as a refugee nine years ago, together with her husband and children. A native of Rangoon, Than Myint now lives in Fort Wayne, a city of some 200,000 people in the US state of Indiana. Now in her late 50s, she has learned how to survive and lead a satisfactory life in the US—the kind of existence she would never have been able to enjoy in Burma...

  7. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    mai, 2007
    Myanmar

    More than 10,000 Burmese migrants in Thailand’s Mae La refugee camp could soon be resettled in the US...

    "It could be a scene from a travel trade show—a crowd of mostly young people clusters in front of poster boards bearing pictures of life in the US. These are no tourists, however, but Burmese refugees in Thailand hoping to resettle in the US and eager for any illustration of what they can expect to find there...

  8. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    mai, 2007
    Myanmar

    As thousands of Karen wait in resettlement camps, others already settled in foreign lands discover new challenges to their future...

    Heh Nay Thaw has lived in refugee camps in Thailand for nearly a quarter-century since he crossed the border from Burma with his family at age five. He is now 29, with a wife and two children, and the long years of waiting for a permanent home may soon be over.

    Like many of his fellow Karen, Heh Nay Thaw gave up hope that he could ever return to Karen State and applied for resettlement outside Asia—possibly in the US.

  9. Library Resource
    Rapports et recherches
    octobre, 2007
    Myanmar

    The Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) has been collaborating with ethnic community-based organisations to document the characteristics of internal displacement in eastern Burma since 2002. This year's research updates estimates of the scale and distribution of internal displacement, and documents the impacts of militarization and state-sponsored development, based on quantitative surveys with key informants in 38 townships.

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