Advocacy
Up one levelAdvocacy is the skill to promote ideas, issues or causes. Advocacy can be used to persuade people to change their behaviors, pressure governments to adopt better policies, or convince non-state actors to reconsider their actions. This section of BurmaGuide.Net includes resource summaries that include toolkits and training materials from groups engaged in advocacy for promoting democracy, safeguarding the environment, raising public health standards, protecting human rights, and other areas.
The National Endowment for Democracy
This is the National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) homepage. The site contains links to information about NED’s grants, fellowships, events, ...
Threat to Peace: A call for the UN Security Council to Act in Burma
This is a report, commissioned by Vaclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic, and Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, ...
A Choice for China: Ending the destruction of Burma’s Frontier Forests
This is a report that makes the case for ending illegal logging in Burma’s northern forests. It is based on research carried out along the ...
Destruction and Degradation of the Burmese Frontier Forests: Listening to the People’s Voices
This is a report produced by PKDS and KESAN with the aim of revealing the social impacts of deforestation. The report elucidates the positive roles ...
ALTSEAN – Alternative Asian Network on Burma
This is the homepage for the Alternative Asian Network on Burma (ALTSEAN). It contains links to news, reports, photos and speeches relating to Burma.
Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)
This is the homepage for the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS). Focusing on refugee rights and the plight of refugees, it contains information on JRS’s ...
Global Issues – Trade related issues
This section attempts to highlight some of the misconceptions and unfairness in the current model for global trading, economics and the current form ...
Global Issues – Human rights related issues
This section attempts to highlight some of the gross human rights violations, racial hatred, effects of media suppression, distortion and bias that ...
The Burma Fund
This is the home page for The Burma Fund and it gives information on their programs on research and policy planning, development dialogue and ...
Kwe Ka Lu
This is the homepage of Kwe Ka Lu. Kwe Ka Lu is a Karen language newspaper which provides news and commentary providing general awareness to the ...
The National Endowment for Democracy