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The United Nations in Burma (Myanmar)

United Nations General Assembly

• See Resolutions on Burma 

United Nations Committee on Human Rights

• Burma: United Nations human rights related treaties and reports to treaty bodies

FAO: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

• COUNTRY REPORT - UNION OF MYANMAR, Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/08, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, By Forest Department Ministry of Forestry, Myanmar Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, June 1997

• WHITHER GOEST MYANMAR TEAK PLANTATION ESTABLISHMENT? FAO Working Paper.  Saw Kelvin Keh

ILO: International Labor Organization reports on Burma

• Report of the Commision of Inquiry (on forced labour in Myanmar  Report of a quasi-judicial investigation.  Among the most comprehensive examinations of forced labor in Burma.

• Report of the Director General of the ILO on Measures taken by the Government of Myanmar to implement the recommendations   of the Commission of Inquiry established to examine the complaint concerning its observance of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29).
  
• Resolution adopted by the International Labour Conference on the widespread use of forced labor in Myanmar  This resolution effectively strips Burma of its ILO membership because of its flagrant use of forced labor.

IPU: Inter-Parliamentary Union

• April 1999 Resolution calling for the release of the 208 parliamentarians held by the regime.

UNCHR: United Nations Commission on Human Rights

• Commission on Human Rights resolutions on the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

• Documents on Human Rights in Myanmar from the UN Commission on Human Rights

• HURIDOCS database.  Searchable database for UN documents related to human rights in Burma.

• United Nations Human Rights Press Room, Geneva- April 17 1998, Informal Note On A Press Conference By Rajsoomer Lallah, Special Rapporteur On The Situation Of Human Rights In Myanmar.

UNESCO  United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization

• Education projects in Burma supported by UNESCO

UNHCR: United Nations High Commission for Refugees

• Fourth joint UNHCR and WFP appeal for the voluntary repatriation from Bangladesh to Myanmar (1998 and 1999)

• UNHCR Bangladesh/Myanmar country profiles UNHCR is involved in the repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Burma.

• UNHCR Thailand/Myanmar country profiles   UNHCR has a limited role in the refugee camps on the Thai/Burma border.

• "Repatriation to Myanmar" (The State of The World's Refugees - In Search of Solutions, 1995)

• REFWORLD: WRITENET Country Papers (Myanmar); Pro-democracy activists (May 1994);

UNICEF: The United Nations Children's Fund

• UNICEF-Myanmar homepage

WFP: The World Food Program

• WFP-Myanmar Myanmar operations