Fourth Annual
Seattle Burma Roundtable Raffle
to support
village and jungle schools
for children displaced by war.
Seattle Burma Roundtable Raffle
to support
village and jungle schools
for children displaced by war.
Read
about past education projects the raffle supported.
Ask local businesses to donate raffle prizes!
Download thank-you/non-profit tax-deduction donation letter to give to businesses that donate.
Pick up tickets to sell at June 2 meeting. Drawing will be in September.
Ask local businesses to donate raffle prizes!
Download thank-you/non-profit tax-deduction donation letter to give to businesses that donate.
Pick up tickets to sell at June 2 meeting. Drawing will be in September.
Seattle P-I and Seattle
Times clash over
whether US should do business in Burma
whether US should do business in Burma
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer editorial calls for U.S. support of international
sanctions against Burma."Only
international pressure is likely to break through Burma's wall of
repression." Read the P-I editorial (4/29/04)
Write a letter to
the P-I: editpage@seattlepi.comrepression." Read the P-I editorial (4/29/04)
Seattle Times editorial calls for business with the junta (4/4/04). Angers those who support human rights in Burma. Many write letters to refute.
Write a letter to the Times:
opinion@seattletimes.com
Read the Seattle Times editorial (4/4)
Read Larry Dohrs analysis of the editorial
Read letters of response published in Seattle Times
Read Washington Post editorial (4/5)calling for sanctions
Read US Campaign for Burma analysis
Read Letters to the Editor that weren't published
Stop using children as soldiers
A 2002 investigation by New
York-based Human Rights Watch found that Burma's regime has recruited
as many as 70,000 child soldiers under the age of 18, far more than any
other country in the world...read
more
Write a letter urging the United Nations Security Council to pressure the Burmese junta to end the use of child soldiers,
including the imposing of travel restrictions on leaders, their exclusion from any governance structures, a ban on the export of small arms and military assistance, and restriction of the flow of financial resources to the country.
On Feb. 5, UW Amnesty
International focused on: Write a letter urging the United Nations Security Council to pressure the Burmese junta to end the use of child soldiers,
including the imposing of travel restrictions on leaders, their exclusion from any governance structures, a ban on the export of small arms and military assistance, and restriction of the flow of financial resources to the country.
Child Soldiers and Human Rights in Burma
Speakers:
Dr. Vit Voravit
Suwanvanichkij, Clinician and researcher in Seattle and Thailand
Therese Caouette, Human Rights activist and Associate Prof. Jackson School of International Studies
Colin Bayne, UW senior, author of introductory chapter on international report about domestic workers.
Therese Caouette, Human Rights activist and Associate Prof. Jackson School of International Studies
Colin Bayne, UW senior, author of introductory chapter on international report about domestic workers.
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