Myanmar

• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 12
• Asylum-seekers 2
• Benefit of the doubt 1
• Burden of proof 2
• Chin 2
• Christian 5
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 14
• Credibility assessment 6
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 4
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 3
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 1
• Entry / Exit 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 5
• Exclusion clauses 1
• Expulsion 2
• False documents 1
• Forced labour 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 8
• Freedom of expression 1
• Freedom of speech 1
• Fresh / New claim 2
• Hindu 1
• Human rights activists 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Kachin 2
• Karen 2
• Muslim 1
• Non-refoulement 2
• Opposition 2
• Passports 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 29
• Persecution of family members 3
• Political parties 1
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 10
• Reception 2
• Refoulement 2
• Regional instruments 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Religious discrimination 1
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 5
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Right to employment 2
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1
• SGBV 2
• Safe third country 1
• Social group persecution 4
• State protection 1
• Stateless persons 2
• Statelessness 1
• Sur place persecution 2
• Tamil 1
• Travel documents 1
• Unlawful departure 3
• Visas 1
• Well-founded fear of persecution 2
• Witnesses 1
• Women-at-risk 1

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• AlertNet - Myanmar
• Altsean Burma
• Amnesty International - Myanmar
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP)
• BBC Burmese
• Burma Campaign UK
• Burma Daily
• Burma News International (BNI)
• Burma Partnership
• BurmaNet News
• Chin Human Rights Organization
• Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center - Publications: Culture Profiles
• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi website
• Democratic Voice of Burma
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Myanmar
• Free Burma Coalition
• Human Rights Foundation of Monland
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Burma
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Myanmar
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Myanmar (Burma)
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Myanmar
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Burma/Myanmar
• Irrawaddy News Magazine
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Myanmar
• Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
• Mizzima News
• Myanmar Times
• Narinjara.com
• National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Myanmar
• Online Burma/Myanmar Library
• Open Society Foundations – Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative
• Radio Free Asia (RFA) - Burma
• ReliefWeb - Myanmar
• Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC)
• UNHCR - Myanmar
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Myanmar
• United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP)
• United States Department of State - Burma
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Myanmar
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Myanmar