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Fourth Annual
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. Seattle P-I and Seattle
Times clash over
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
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
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. |
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Questions? Email us at: burma@u.washington.edu
or call (206)784-5742. Seattle Burma Roundtable members may add events to the calendar by logging on to www.localendar.com |