Major online locations of books, reports and articles on Burma

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Description: The biggest searchable Burma archive on the Internet, I would think - probably more than 100,000 items. One can also link to individual articles, since each has a unique address. From September 1995 to early 2014
Source/publisher: Maykha
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English and Burmese
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Description: A most impressive institution, much more than a news service, with an excellent website. Mizzima concentrates on India-Burma relations, events etc. Several Mizzima articles daily in English and Burmese which can be read on the site or delivered to your mailbox. The website has a browsable archive back to 98, which is an important resource. The search function does not work all that well (e.g. searching for "naga", it retrieved 5 documents, whereas there are several hundred accessible to the patient browser). Sections include: the Mizzima News; Mizzima News Archives; News in Burmese; Burma Related News (various sources); Nationalities Questions; Documents (nothing there yet); Debates; About Mizzima; About Burma; Mizzima?s Activities; Seminars; Photo Gallery (mainly people sitting round tables); Media in Burma; Network Links; Chat Room; Burmese calendar; Research on Indo-Burma relations; English Language School; Art Exhibitions; Music Album; Mizzima Video Documentary; Affiliated Organizations; Mizzima Team.
Source/publisher: "Mizzima"
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: High-quality reporting. "Covering Burma and Asia...The Irrawaddy is published by the Irrawaddy Publishing Group (IPG). IPG was established in 1992 by Burmese citizens living in exile and is not affiliated with any political party or organization. The Irrawaddy seeks to promote press freedom and access to unbiased information..." The magazine is monthly, but there are daily news updates and special articles. There is also a Burmese edition, q.v.
Source/publisher: Irrawaddy Publishing Group
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: 47,200 results for a Google site-specific search for "Myanmar". See also local serch.
Source/publisher: "The Nation"
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Several hundred documents on Burma. "The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was founded in 1986 by a prominent group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia. The AHRC is an independent, non-governmental body, which seeks to promote greater awareness and realisation of human rights in the Asian region, and to mobilise Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief and redress for the victims of human rights violations. AHRC promotes civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights. AHRC endeavours to achieve the following objectives stated in the Asian Charter "Many Asian states have guarantees of human rights in their constitutions, and many of them have ratified international instruments on human rights. However, there continues to be a wide gap between rights enshrined in these documents and the abject reality that denies people their rights. Asian states must take urgent action to implement the human rights of their citizens and residents... " Search for Burma and/or go to Asian Countries/Burma. Links, Urgent appeals.
Source/publisher: Asian Human Rights Commission, Asian Legal Resource Centre
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: This link is to the keyword search. Other options are in the column on the left. While many documents require a login and password, there are a lot which are free, including material on Burma.
Source/publisher: Hong Kong University
Date of entry/update: 2008-04-06
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Google has scanned many thousands of books and placed them on this website, but for copyright reasons the full texts are limited. To access available full texts, follow the instructions on the site, using Advanced Search if necessary.
Source/publisher: Google
Date of entry/update: 2008-04-05
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Mainly English
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Description: A number of Burma reports and press releases. Unfortunately, some of the most important reports from the early '90s are missing (not even mentioned as available in hard copy)
Source/publisher: Human Rights Watch
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Highly recommended. Well-organised site. In "list of sources used" are most of the main reports from 1995 bearing on IDPs (though the reports from 1995 to 1997 are missing - temporarily, one hopes) and more Burma pages updated June 2001. Go to the home page for links on IDPs, including the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
Source/publisher: IDMC
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Three reports so far (several more in the pipeline): "Burma/Myanmar: How strong is the military regime?", December 2000, "Myanmar: The role of civil society", 6 December 2001 and "Myanmar: the military regime?s view of the world", 7 December 2001.
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Explore the ILO site or use the OBL ILO section.
Source/publisher: ILO
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Francais, French, Espanol, Spanish
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Description: A search for "Burma Drugs" got 96 hits (March 2009)
Source/publisher: US Govt.
Date of entry/update: 2010-08-11
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Source/publisher: Reseau Voltaire
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Francais, French
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Description: Reports to the Human Rights Council and General Assembly. This site has links to most of the UN human rights documents available online on Burma (Myanmar), in the 6 official UN languages.
Source/publisher: United Nations
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, Espanol, Francais, Russian
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Description: Resolutions of the General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights; reports by the Secretary-General and the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar; written statements by NGOs; reports with references to Myanmar by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Special Rapporteur on toxic wastes, Special Rapporteur on Torture, Report of the High Commissioner on human rights and mass exoduses, Report of the Secretary-General on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, Report of the Secretary-General on the national practices related to the right to a fair trial.
Source/publisher: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
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Description: Search for Myanmar. Many search options. Good luck.
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Links to the websites of the UN agencies, programmes and offices throughout the world. Several thousand reports on "Myanmar" if you dig.
Source/publisher: United Nations
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, French
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Description: Reports from 1997-2000
Source/publisher: Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs U.S. Department of State
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: "...The present paper has as its primary concern the exemplification of the way religious visual culture may serve as a marker of ethnicity and nationalism. Examples are taken from Buddhist visual culture in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar. The visual objects considered in this discussion are two very special Buddha statues that can, in different ways, convey Burmese ethnic and religious identity and be seen as elements in the Burmanization of the Shan State. In order to understand the role of these objects, this paper will also discuss, from a perspective of Southeast Asian history, the genuineness of Buddha statues and the reason why some Buddhist images and religious buildings are more sacred than others..."
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2012-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2020-04-04
Grouping: Individual Documents
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Description: “...China in Burma,” both discursively and materially, is a complicated dynamic affair. The diplomatic, political and economic relations between the two countries have been continually refitted as the two countries have gone through their own separate and shared events. In particular, Burma’s postindependence ethnic armed movements, underground communist insurgency, and the Burmese military’s counterinsurgency strategies against them along China’s shared border continue to provide historical weight to Burma’s regional and national-scale political economies. Since the mid-1960s ethnic strongmen have dominated the political and economic sphere in northern Burma, in this case mostly with the illegal drugs economy, which was, and still is, woven into cross-border business networks with Yunnan Province and beyond...."
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2016-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2020-04-04
Grouping: Individual Documents
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