Free Burma Worker Solidarity

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Labournet, we would like to know if you would like to be kept posted
about the worsening labor crisis in Burma where the use of forced labor,
child labor, sex trafficking and other widespread violation of human
rights are the object of increasing world condemnation in solidarity
with the people and workers for a free Burma. 

European ministers have proposed to revoke Burmese agricultural GSP
privileges.

thank you for you concern and postings to your group for Burmese labor
solidarity from your members, any of whom are invited to offer their
support.

Dawn Star
Euro-Burmanet
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/
Worldwide TOTAL Boycott (Paris coordinator) Burmanet

> 
>ASEAN NGOs Urge ASEAN-EU Meeting: Help stop Burma violations
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> 
> A network of 50 ASEAN-based NGOs have written to participants of the
> 12th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting, calling for the meeting to give
> their strongest support to the immediate cessation of human rights
> violations and the commencement of dialogue between Burm's Slorc
> regime, the Aung San Suu Kyi-led democracy movement and ethnic
> nationalities.
> 
> The Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma cited the recent attacks by Slorc
> and Slorc-organized troops against unarmed refugee camps in Thailand as
> another  example of how the military regime abused the spirit and letter
> of Burma's Union Day holiday (Feb. 12) by committing atrocities against
> ethnic nationality people, as well as majority Burmans and religious
> minorities.
> 
> This year, Union Day marks the 50th anniversary of the Panglong Agreement
> between ethnic nationality leaders and Independence hero Aung San to
> form a Union of Burma.  It recognizes the equality and rights of
> ethnic peoples in Burma.  However, since Aung San's assassination in
> 1948, the content of the Panglong Agreement was gradually eroded, and
> eventually removed from Burma's Constitution.
> 
> Speaking in Manila at the regional launch of a multilingual poster questioning
> ASEAN support for the Slorc, Network Coordinator Debbie Stothard described the
> long-running crisis in Burma as an issue of concern common to ASEAN and the EU.
> 
> "While human rights violations hurt us all, there is also the
> practical issue of regional and economic security. The effects of Slorc abuse
> and mismanagement have been spilling over its borders. The combination of
> the problems resulting from mammoth illicit drug production, the unchecked
> HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the teetering Burmese economy will escalate and have
> dire consequences on us all. The time to do something is now, and the
> place to start is the ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting", she stressed.
> 
> The ASEAN-Burma poster is also being launched in Singapore, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.