Saturday, January 22, 2011

Fwd: [cncjapaninfo] Updated Coverage News On Chin State


 Dear Friends and Supporters of CHRO,
Please see belose some of the news links on coverage about human rights situation in Chin State. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) Launched the report on January 19 in Geneva. CHRO Program Director Salai Za Uk Ling and CHRO Advocacy Director Rachel Flemming along with PHR Chief Executive Director Frank Donahoe and PHR Megan Prock are now engaging in advocacy activities in Geneva, The news was picked up by 220 news outlet around the world including Time Magazine and Washington Post.

 

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/19/AR2011011900151.html

 

TIME Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2043143,00.html

 

Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2011/01/19/group_says_survey_confirms_myanmar_rights_abuses/

 

FOX News

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/19/group-says-survey-confirms-myanmar-rights-abuses/

 

San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/01/18/international/i215027S68.DTL

 

Seattle Post Intelligencer

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1104ap_as_myanmar_human_rights.html


Seattle Times

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/index.html

 

Associated Press

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hzADxO2WWtfrv63-7OC4w-NBJn3A?docId=aa30b4eda8a846ca9bf0c2cd079edd7a

 

AFP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g7FgpbyANf1fNq4owim6mUQrcm6Q?docId=CNG.3bf85c2831c0d78eb3c3ae8ea03860f2.2a1

 

Bangkok Post

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/217148/burma-rights-report-says-minority-group-killed-raped

 

Democratic Voice of Burma

http://www.dvb.no/news/army-abuse-in-chin-state-%E2%80%98extraordinary%E2%80%99/13751

 

Irawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=20558

 

IRIN

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=91659

 

Shan Herald

http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3419:first-widespread-survey-of-burmas-chin-state-shows-evidence-of-crimes-against-humanity&catid=mailbox&Itemid=279

Megan Prock

Senior Press Officer

Physicians for Human Rights

2 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA 02138

Office: 617.301.4237

Cell: 617.510.3417

mprock@phrusa.org

physiciansforhumanrights.org

 




--
Salai Bawi Lian
Executive Director
Chin Human Rights Organization
www.chro.ca