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Human Rights

The Human Rights Program aims to cultivate a culture of human rights in Burmese society. To reach this goal, HREIB is engaged in a variety of methods of human rights education in the Burmese community. The objective of human rights education is to make people aware of their rights and empower them to improve human rights situation. The Human Rights Program provides training opportunities to create human rights educators in Burma, in the communities from Burma settled on the borders between Burma and Thailand, China, India, and Bangladesh, and in organizations fighting for democracy and human rights in Burma.

Child Rights

The Child Rights Program aims to engage a broad spectrum of people including children to promote child rights and work collaboratively toward the protection and realization of child rights within the various sectors of Burmese society. Utilizing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) as overarching principles and operational guidelines, HREIB offers and initiates a wide array of activities including trainings, music and theater performances, and public ceremonies among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), ethnic communities inside Burma, and refugees and migrant workers in Thailand to raise awareness about child rights. HREIB also produces publications, posters, and music videos to disseminate information about child rights and to reach the wider public inside Burma. The Child Rights Program implements this work primarily through two projects: the Anti-Child Trafficking Project and the Anti-Child Soldiers Project.

Women's Rights

The Gender and Women’s Rights Program promotes gender equality among people from Burma. The program raises gender awareness with both men and women. Additionally, the program focuses on empowering women and sexual minorities to engage in social transformation so that they can promote and enjoy gender equality and human rights. The program has been broadly facilitating trainings on gender, women’s human rights and empowerment and leadership using participatory education methodology with refugee and migrant communities, and pro-democracy organizations based on the Burmese borders with Thailand, China, India and Bangladesh, as well as some communities inside Burma. As a campaign to reduce domestic violence against women and sexual harassment, HREIB publishes posters and facilitates community involvement in theater performances.

Background

Burma is a deeply wounded country. In rural areas, there is an ongoing civil war currently in its sixth decade. Greatly fuelled by successive dictatorships since 1962, the military targets women and ethnic minority peoples who suffer from systematic human rights violations including rape, murder, torture and slavery. Following the 1988 democratic uprising and brutal crackdown, the pro-democracy movement was taken to the border areas by many young people fleeing arrest and vowing to continue the struggle. As a result of the dictatorship's brutal campaign against ethnic minority groups, hundreds of thousands have fled to Thailand with similar numbers in India and Bangladesh. Education is a basic right denied to the people of Burma.

Activities

unhcr The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict reports that the Myanmar Armed Forces have occupied educational facilities for military purposes, recruited teachers and students for forced labour,

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Two ethnic Shan women who were trafficked and sold as wives to Chinese men before being released in 2008 have now approached an UN agency to demand for help in rescuing the remaining victims.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AFP) – Thhe spiky-haired teenager said he clearly recalls the day when Myanmar state troops whisked him from the streets of Mandalay, accused him of stealing

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The United Nations' International Labor Organization (ILO) says Burma has made limited progress in curtailing the use of forced labor.
Steve Marshall, the International Labor Organization's liaison

Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB)

Mission

To empower people through human rights education to engage in social transformation and promote a culture of human rights for all.

Vision

HREIB envisions a society where human rights education is institutionalized as a potent tool for building a peaceful, tolerant and democratic Burma that respects and promotes all aspects of human rights for all.

Goals

To facilitate gender equitable, skills-based trainings on human rights at the grassroots level
To strengthen the knowledge of the people of Burma by creating a clear understanding of international human rights laws and mechanisms, including the UN and key human rights treaties: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Social, Cultural, and Economic Rights (ICSCER), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Refugee Convention, the Rome Statute, and the Genocide Convention
To raise awareness of gender issues and how they relate to human rights and development throughout the various HREIB programs.
To facilitate Training of Trainers (TOT) programs to build capacity in community organizations so that a pool of skilled trainers will be educating communities throughout Burma and in the border areas
To produce accessible training materials, guides and other publications which further the mission of HREIB

Background

Background

Burma is a deeply wounded country. In rural areas, there is an ongoing civil war currently in its sixth decade. Greatly fuelled by successive dictatorships since 1962, the military targets women and ethnic minority peoples who suffer from systematic human rights violations including rape, murder, torture and slavery. Following the 1988 democratic uprising and brutal crackdown, the pro-democracy movement was taken to the border areas by many young people fleeing arrest and vowing to continue the struggle. As a result of the dictatorship's brutal campaign against ethnic minority groups, hundreds of thousands have fled to Thailand with similar numbers in India and Bangladesh. Education is a basic right denied to the people of Burma.