Right to Information Bill
Myanmar is one of the most corrupt countries in the world with one of the most unaccountable governments. This is partly because the government is very secretive and many public officials believe that...
View ArticleRight to information
The right to information is included in the Sustainable Development Goals for each country to aim for to achieve development. The right to information includes a number of principles: Presumption of...
View ArticleStatistics on corruption in Myanmar
The 2017 Global Corruption Barometer gives evidence about corruption in Myanmar. Overall, 60% of people in Myanmar think that corruption has stayed the same or increased since the NLD took power. 38%...
View ArticleFEM welcomes Kofi Annan commission recommendations on media, access to...
FEM welcomes today’s publication of the final Rakhine Commission Report, led by Kofi Annan, and urges the Myanmar government to implement its recommendations on media, access to information and hate...
View ArticleMyanmar Digital Rights Forum: New aims agreed for 2018 —...
On 18-19 January 2018, 130 participants attended the second edition of Myanmar Digital Rights Forum in Yangon to discuss the future of Myanmar’s Internet. Participants included representatives from...
View ArticleRight to truth
Free expression, access to information and media freedom are one of the first casualties in every conflict, including in Myanmar.[1] However, it is during conflicts that these rights are so important...
View ArticleConference on media freedom and conflict
The media risks many threats when trying to report about conflicts. Many areas are completely off-limits. "Fake news" and "hate speech" are the result of a lack of trustworthy information. The Center...
View Article3rd Digital Rights Forum calls for better regulated, freer, safer online...
The third Myanmar Digital Rights Forum concluded on 19 January in Yangon with a call for new policy and regulation that would safeguard digital rights in Myanmar, and a fully consultative process to...
View Article20 expert organisations urge Myanmar to fully guarantee the internationally...
A new parliamentary committee tasked with reviewing Myanmar’s constitution is an opportunity for the government to guarantee the democratic rights to free expression, media freedom, and access to...
View ArticleNew Bill a big step backwards for RTI — သတင်းအချက်အလက်အခွင့်အရေးကို...
If adopted, the Myanmar government’s new Bill would significantly undermine the right to information (RTI) in one of the world’s most secretive countries. FEM urges the government and parliament to...
View ArticleNew National Records and Archives Law preserves government secrecy —အစိုးရ၏...
Although parliament made one improvement, the newly adopted National Records and Archives Law undermines the right to information and will preserve Myanmar’s position as one of the world’s most...
View ArticleIndonesian shutdown ruling is lesson for Myanmar...
FEM welcomes today’s Indonesian court ruling which declared that the West Papua internet shutdown was unlawful. Myanmar should learn from Indonesia. The West Papuan shutdown shares many similarities to...
View ArticleInternet shutdown will increase risk of Covid-19 outbreak in Rakhine and Chin...
ယခုလက်ရှိဖြစ်ပွားလျက်ရှိသော ရခိုင်နှင့်ချင်းပြည်နယ်ရှိ မြို့နယ် ၉ မြို့နယ်၌ အင်တာနက်ဖြတ်တောက်ထားမှုသည် ကမ္ဘာ့ကပ်ရောဂါ ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ကို ခုခံတိုက်ခိုက်ရာတွင် ပြည်သူများ၏ စွမ်းဆောင်ရည်ကို သိသိသာသာ...
View ArticleOne Month of 2G shows shutdown continues and undermines Covid-19 crisis...
နှေးကွေးပြီး လုံခြုံမှုမရှိသော 2G ကွန်ရက် ချိတ်ဆက်မှုသည် အမှန်တကယ်လိုအပ်သော ချိတ်ဆက်မှုများ အား 3G (သို့) 4G တို့ကဲ့သို့ မပံ့ပိုးပေးနိုင်သောကြောင့် ရခိုင်နှင့်ချင်းပြည်နယ်တို့တွင် အလွန်ဆိုးရွားသော...
View ArticleRight to information day 2020 —၂၀၂၀ ခုနှစ် သတင်းအချက်အလက်အခွင့်အရေးနေ့
အစိုးရသည် ၂၀၁၅ မှစ၍ သတင်းအချက် အလက်အခွင့်အရေးကို အားတက်သရော ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကန့်သတ်၊ ပိတ်ပင်၍ရသည့် ဥပဒေများ၊ မူဝါဒများနှင့် လုပ်ထုံးလုပ်နည်းများ ပြဌာန်းသတ်မှတ်လာသည်။ အစိုးရသည် ရုပ်သံနှင့်...
View ArticleIllegitimate internet shutdown extended beyond elections...
မြန်မာဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ်အခွင့်အရေးဖိုရမ်၏ ပူးပေါင်းစီစဉ်သူ အဖွဲ့(၄)ဖွဲ့ဖြစ်သည့် လွတ်လပ်သောထုတ်ဖော်ပြောဆိုခြင်း-မြန်မာ(FEM)၊ မြန်မာ့စီးပွားရေးကဏ္ဍတာဝန်ယူမှုရှိရေး အထောက်အကူပြု ဌာန(MCRB) ၊ “မြန်” အိုင်စီတီ(MIDO)...
View ArticleConference on media freedom and conflict
The media risks many threats when trying to report about conflicts. Many areas are completely off-limits. "Fake news" and "hate speech" are the result of a lack of trustworthy information. The Center...
View Article3rd Digital Rights Forum calls for better regulated, freer, safer online...
The third Myanmar Digital Rights Forum concluded on 19 January in Yangon with a call for new policy and regulation that would safeguard digital rights in Myanmar, and a fully consultative process to...
View Article20 expert organisations urge Myanmar to fully guarantee the internationally...
A new parliamentary committee tasked with reviewing Myanmar’s constitution is an opportunity for the government to guarantee the democratic rights to free expression, media freedom, and access to...
View ArticleNew Bill a big step backwards for RTI —သတင်းအချက်အလက်အခွင့်အရေးကို...
If adopted, the Myanmar government’s new Bill would significantly undermine the right to information (RTI) in one of the world’s most secretive countries. FEM urges the government and parliament to...
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