JOB OPENING: ALTSEAN-BURMA – EDITORIAL & ENGLISH SUPPORT INTERN (OFFICER)
Deadline for applications: 12 Feb 2023. Preferred start date: 13 March 2023.
We are looking for a person to join the team as a intern (officer) for twelve (12) months, carrying out the duties listed in the job description, while maintaining a sense of humor. Candidates who have experience volunteering or working in the Burma movement or other human rights movements will be at an advantage.
COUP WATCH (DECEMBER 2022) Security Council fails to deliver real action as humanitarian needs explode
9 January 2023
• The regime sentenced State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint to seven more years in prison each. • UNOCHA projected that 17.6 million people will need humanitarian assistance in 2023 (34% of the pop).
• The UN Security Council adopted a resolution urging the release of political prisoners and an end to violence. China, Russia opposed giving the UNSC power to enforce it.
• UNHCR reported that some 1,920 people, mostly Rohingya, had fled Burma and Bangladesh by sea during Jan-Nov 2022. An estimated 119 died, and 180 are feared dead.
• The US Congress passed the BURMA Act, broadening the government’s authority to provide non-lethal assistance to resistance groups.
coup watch (november 2022) Temporary ceasefire in Rakhine as ASEAN starts getting serious
6 decEMber 2022
• As of 25 Nov, there had been at least 18,289 armed clashes and attacks, resulting in the displacement of 1,208,700 people since the coup began.
• Junta forces have killed at least 2,553 civilians and arrested 16,472 as of 30 Nov. Junta courts sentenced six NLD MPs to prison; as well as seven student activists to death in Nov.
• Fighting between the AA and regime forces intensified in Rakhine State, before both sides verbally agreed to a temporary ceasefire on 26 Nov.
• ASEAN leaders agreed to develop an implementation plan for the bloc’s Five-Point Consensus, keep barring the junta from high-level meetings, and engage with ‘all stakeholders.’
coup watch (october 2022) asean sticks to failing consensus as crisis deepens
8 NOVEMber 2022
• As of 28 Oct, there had been at least 16,651 armed clashes and attacks, resulting in the displacement of 1,161,800 people since the coup began.
• Regime jets bombed a music concert in Kachin State, killing up to 80 people and drawing international outrage, days before an ASEAN emergency meeting on the crisis.
• Junta forces have killed at least 2,404 civilians and arrested 16,016 as of 31 Oct.
• ASEAN Foreign Ministers decided to stick to the failing Five-Point Consensus despite the regime’s unwillingness to implement it.
BURMA/MYANMAR: ILLEGAL JUNTA THREATENS PEOPLE & PLANET
7 NOVEMber 2022
ALTSEAN-BURMA
Documenting resistance to Burma's illegal military regime
Our Work
TRAINING
We provide capacity development support to grassroots and community organizations from Burma and ASEAN within the framework of our Thematic Priorities, on- and off-site.
COUPWATCH BRIEFERS
Long-form monthly analysis of events in Burma following the illegal 1 February 2021 coup d'etat by the military (Tatmadaw) published on the 1st of each month.
COUPWATCH THEMATIC TRACKERS
Seven Thematic Trackers, updated twice per week, in order to provide stakeholders and advocates with centralized and fact-checked access to fast-,moving and relevant events in Burma.
SPECIAL REPORTS
A range of writing products covering challenges to human rights and democracy in Burma. We provide long-form Briefers as well as 1-2 page Factsheets and analyzed data.
SIGNED STATEMENTS
ALTSEAN works in collaboration with multiple stakeholders and friends on the ground in Burma as well as in ASEAN to amplify advocacy efforts through the use of letters and statements.
WOMEN'S VOICES
"Women's Voices" is a series of compilation books written by first-time Woman authors in Burma and Thailand. The books aim to amplify and center narratives which are rarely heard in global discussions.
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