Biden Administration Should Tread Carefully on Myanmar’s Rights Issues: Observers
Then US Vice President Joe Biden and Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meet in Washington in September 2016. / State Counselor’s Office
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By Nyein Nyein 27 January 2021
US foreign policy under new President Joseph Biden will be centered on promoting democracy and human rights around the world, Antony Blinken, the administration’s nominee for secretary of state, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing in Washington on Jan. 19. Unlike Republican President Donald Trump, the new Democratic administration is likely to make human rights its top priority in dealing with Myanmar.
Will Glimmers of Good News Continue as Myanmar Moves Into a New Year?
By The Irrawaddy 9 January 2021
Ye Ni: Happy New Year! Welcome to Dateline Irrawaddy! This is the first dateline of 2021. The year 2020 was a hard year due to COVID-19, but since the Nov. 8 election and through New Year’s Day, we have heard good news. Executive director U Aung Myo Min of Equality Myanmar and writer Daw Mon Mon Myat join me this week. I’m The Irrawaddy Burmese editor Ye Ni.
The year 2020 was a hard year and we had to give up some of our individual freedom and rights willingly. We started to hear good news toward the end of 2020 as various vaccines emerged. So, there are hopes that there will be more good news in 2021. The fighting in Rakhine State ceased in November. It is good news that fighting ceased in a region which has continuously seen human rights violations. On International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, President U Win Myint released a statement in which he pledged that the govern
US Embassy Under Fire for Working With Firm Owned by Sanctioned Military Chief’s Daughter
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7 December 2020
The original poster for the event posted by the US Embassy. / US Embassy Rangoon Facebook
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By The Irrawaddy 15 December 2020
The US Embassy in Yangon has come in for public criticism after publishing a Facebook post
that suggested it was partnering with a company run by the daughter of the US-sanctioned Myanmar military chief on an event co-sponsored by the embassy.
On Monday evening, the embassy announced on Facebook its co-sponsorship of a concert to be streamed as part of the online Myanmar Music Festival, in which international artists and instructors will collaborate with emerging Myanmar musical artists for a week of intensive training and performances. The concert advertised in the Facebook post is scheduled to be streamed on Dec 18.
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