Thursday, 21 January 2010 13:22
ND-Burma, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) recently organized two workshops on , Human Rights and International Law in Burma, which was attended by Burmese human rights organizations and activists.
The workshops looked at how the human rights abuses in Burma are violating international law and the role of Burmese human rights organizations and activists in campaigning for international law to be used to address the situation in Burma.
Quotable
"Yes, end the rule of the brutal military junta and impress on them that they are going to be indicted before the International Criminal Court for all their gross violations of human rights and their crimes against humanity."
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu (from the Interview with Irrawaddy)