European Union humanitarian assistance
Websites/Multiple Documents
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Burma Day 2005 - Selected Documents...
Supporting Burma/Myanmar?s National Reconciliation Process - Challenges and Opportunities... Brussels, Tuesday 5th April 2005... Most of the papers and reports focus on the "Independent Report" written for the conference by Robert Taylor and Morten Pedersen. They range from macroeconomic critique to historical and procedural comment.
Source/publisher:
European Commission
Date of entry/update:
2005-04-06
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Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
European Union-Burma relations (commentary/analysis), Economy: general, analytical, statistical (various sources), Political, social and economic dimensions of investment in Burma, The discussion on humanitarian assistance to Burma, European Union humanitarian assistance
Language:
English
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Individual Documents
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"This Short Update describes events occurring in Bilin Township, Thaton District during October 2014, including development projects such as water supply, road construction and building clinics...
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) went to Bilin Township and requested the presence of village representatives from 12 villages, so that they could state their core needs in their villages, which included a healthcare centre, schools, road construction in the village, hostels for teachers and water supply...
On October 23rd 2014, a KHRG community member went to Noh Ka Neh village to attend a workshop conducted by a SDC field director and his officers. The community member interviewed the director about what he was doing and the director explained about initiating a village committee for building a school for the villagers."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of publication:
2015-02-03
Date of entry/update:
2015-03-02
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
European Union humanitarian assistance
Language:
English
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pdf
Size:
2.39 MB
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"The European Union has allocated more than US$2 million to
Myanmar for health care and other projects which will benefit
about half a million people. The donation of two-million euros
(about $2.2 million) will be channelled through the European
Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) to non-government
organisations in Myanmar during the next 12 months. It brings
to more than $6 million the amount allocated by the EU to aid
projects in Myanmar since 1996. The EU announced the latest
allocation in a statement issued on September 21..."
Source/publisher:
"The Myanmar Times", Volume 5, No.83, October 1 - 7, 2001
Date of publication:
2001-10-07
Date of entry/update:
2010-12-06
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
European Union humanitarian assistance
Language:
English
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htm
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13.13 KB
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"The European Commission raises eyebrows by commissioning two ?Burma experts,? known for their military regime sympathy, to write a report for a Brussels meeting.
European officials had to do a lot of not-so-nifty diplomatic footwork to explain a meeting in Brussels called ?Burma Day 2005 (page 15).? It was an exercise in damage control in the face of a chorus of complaints by pro-democracy and human rights activists with other critics, who effectively thought it was more a Day of Shame.
The meeting centered on a European Commission-commissioned report authored by Robert Taylor and Morten Pedersen, dubbed by the critics as Burmese regime apologists. The affair was supposed to dwell on humanitarian aid to Burma which, said EU officials, was why Taylor and Pedersen had been chosen to write the report, and why only ?in-the-field? aid experts had been invited. Nonsense, retorted the uninvited critics: Taylor and Pedersen could in no way be described as aid experts, and nor could some of the other guests..."
Bruce Kent
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 4
Date of publication:
2005-04-00
Date of entry/update:
2005-04-29
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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"Sanctions will stay, but aid programs win support...
Differences between the European Union and Asian governments over how best to deal with Burma?s military junta may soon be a distant memory.
As Asean gets tougher with Burma?s generals, the EU is taking another look at its long-standing policy of isolating Rangoon.
Demonstrators protest against the Burma Day meeting
EU sanctions against the military rulers will stay in place. But the 25 nation bloc is also working on an unprecedented aid strategy for Burma, including funding for health, education and poverty alleviation projects.
The EU?s determination to provide assistance for Burma?s long-suffering population was highlighted at a ?Burma Day? meeting organized in Brussels by the European Commission in early April..."
Shada Islam
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 13, No. 4
Date of publication:
2005-04-00
Date of entry/update:
2005-04-29
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
European Union humanitarian assistance, European Union-Burma relations (commentary/analysis)
Language:
English
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