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Aung San Suu Kyi: The struggle for liberty and democracy in Burma
In a deeply moving and inspirational lecture the Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi has spoken of her and her movement’s struggle for liberty and democracy in Burma. In a departure for the...
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Aung San Suu Kyi: “An icon in Damascus”
“You are an icon in Damascus,” the BBC correspondent Sue Lloyd-Roberts told the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, explaining how a woman in Syria had led demonstrators onto the street in...
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Human rights as conditions for aid: how long is a piece of string?
Marta Foresti is the head of the politics and governance programme at the Overseas Development Institute. In theory it makes perfect sense: aid to poor countries should not come without strings...
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The World Outside Westminster – Muty in Mali, elections in Burma, Assad and...
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The World Outside Westminster – Burma, Spain, Santorum and the Atlantic depths
. To receive The World Outside Westminster in your inbox before it appears on the website, sign up to the email service Burma Aung San Suu Kyi has reportedly won a seat in Burma’s parliament in the...
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Cameron calls for suspension of sanctions on Burma and invites Aung to Britain
. David Cameron today invited Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to come to Britain in June and called for EU sanctions on the country to be suspended. Speaking at a press conference at...
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The World Outside Westminster – Slasher Republicans, Syria, Burma and Bahrain
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Burma’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to address Parliament next week
. The Burmese opposition leader Aung Suu Kyi has started a 17-day tour of Europe this week, with a visit to the UK expected on Tuesday. The Lady, as she is called in Burma, landed in Switzerland...
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Aung San Suu Kyi visits Labour HQ
. One opposition leader met another today as Aung San Suu Kyi visited the Labour Party offices in Brewer’s Green, where shadow cabinet members were also in attendance. Tom Watson, Labour MP for West...
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As Obama hosts the Burmese President, he must address the regime’s dreadful...
Emanuel Stoakes is a freelance journalist based in New Zealand. He recently travelled to Burma When Cyclone Mahasen weakened and changed course last week, sparing 130,000 or so ethnic Rohingyas living...
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Cameron insults Srebrenica dead by hosting Thein Sein
Emanuel Stoakes is a freelance journalist based in New Zealand Last week the eighteenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre passed, prompting a chorus of sombre statements from European leaders....
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