Profile: Burma Global Action Network - BGAN
Year Founded
2007
Type
Non-profit
Last on Think
Updated on: 11/28/2008 14:26
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Mission Statement

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  To launch and promote global campaigns in support of the Burmese people and Burma's democracy movement as a whole

 

To compile and distribute information about the humanitarian, judicial and political situation in Burma to pro-democracy stakeholders world-wide.

To disseminate the updates and the outcomes of Burma-related initiatives from all global Burma supporting orginizations.

To provide humanitarian and legal aid to Burmese refugees and asylum seekers world-wide through existing Burma aid orginizations.

 

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WHY BURMA

▀  400,000+ Victims Of Genocide
  Systematic Violations Of Fundamental Human Rights
  3.5 Million + Internally Displaced Persons And Refugees
  Myanmar Army - World's Largest Recruiter Of Child Soldiers

  High Prevalence Of HIV & AIDS With Little In The Way Of Health Care

▀  3000 + Villages Destroyed By The Myanmar Army
▀  1,920 + Political Prisoners
▀  Systematic Use Of Forced, Corvée And Prison Labour
▀  Systematic Rape & Torture Of Young Children & Women
▀  Aung San Suu Kyi-The world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, under house arrest for the past 13 years 

  BGAN IS EVERYWHERE

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Location
Peoria, AZ 85382
United States
Phone
623-703-0110
Fax
Website
http://www.burma-network.com
Email
info@burma-network.com
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Brief History of Burma from CNN
Brief History of Burma from CNN
Tags: china   Burma   Monks   Myanmar
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by  Burma Global Action Network... on september 06, 2008
 
   
 
Aftershow with Ava
Did Ava lose her princess ways after going to Thailand? Check out this exlcusive after show interview to hear what Ava has to say about her trip.
Tags: education   endangered species   Thailand   elephants   Exiled   orphanages...
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by  thinkMTV on september 01, 2008
 
   
 
Thailand
The Karen
Tags: Thailand   Exiled
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by  JennaArnold on august 28, 2008
 
   
 
Blog post: Thailand: The Karen

Thailand: The Karen

 

 

The Karen are the largest of the ethnic minority of six different groups living in the mountain ranges of eastern Burma and northwestern Thailand. Karen people are ancestors of Tibetan refuges. The main profession of the Karen is farming and they migrate whenever the soil becomes depleted.  The Karen are g...

Tags: Thailand   Exiled
Views 248
Posted by JennaArnold on august 28, 2008 at 2:32 pm
 
   
 
Nothing But Nets delivers bed nets to refugees in Thailand
The UN Foundation's campaign Nothing But Nets is helping to distribute much-needed bed nets to refugees in camps in Thailand and Burma. Nothing But Nets' Director...
Tags: Malaria   disease   refugees   bed nets   UN Foundation   Thailand   nothing...
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by  Nothing But Nets on august 26, 2008
 
   
 
Burma Emergency
Help the people of Burma overcome the devastation resulting from their natural disaster. Go to www.MTVBurmaAction.com to call for international support and help...
Tags: aid   Burma   natural disaster   Myanmar   international aid   Relief   Cyclone
Views 71
by  thinkMTV on may 19, 2008
 
   
 
News: Myanmar: As The Cyclone Death Toll Soars, Why Aren't Relief Efforts Bigger?
As the death toll in the wake of Myanmar's cyclone disaster rapidly climbs, there has been no mass-relief effort on the scale of Hurricane Katrina or the Indonesian...
Tags: darfur   disaster   Burma   Hurricane Katrina   Death   Myanmar   foreign aid...
Views 247
by  MTVNews on may 12, 2008
 
   
 
Reality Check
The parents of our favorite Sweet 16 royalty are turning the tables and showing a little tough love. To open their kids' eyes to the real world, they'll be sending...
Tags: Trailer   Exiled
Views 147
by  thinkMTV on may 12, 2008
 
   
 
Entrenched Abuse: Forced Labor in Burma
Produced by WITNESS in collaboration with Burma Issues, the video documents use of forced labor in three different areas in 2003 and offers an insight into the...
Tags: human rights   Burma   Myanmar   forced labor
Views 136
by  WITNESS on november 19, 2007
 
   
 
Video from Burma: Shoot on Sight
To ACT NOW: www.witness.org/shootonsight. Video advocates BURMA ISSUES travel deep into the jungles of eastern Burma to document one of the world's most urgent...
Tags: Burma   refugees   Myanmar   ASEAN   IDPs   Karen
Views 117
by  WITNESS on november 19, 2007
 
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