Outgoing UN Special Rapporteur of the situation of human rights in Myanmar Dr Paulo Sergio Pinheiro has stated that there has been “no improvement at all in the human rights situation since 2003” in Myanmar, or Burma.

Outgoing UN Special Rapporteur of the situation of human rights in Myanmar Dr Paulo Sergio Pinheiro has stated that there has been “no improvement at all in the human rights situation since 2003” in Myanmar, or Burma.

He was speaking at the press briefing at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand, Bangkok, and one of the last times he was officially speaking in his capacity as Special Rapporteur for Myanmar’s/Burma’s human rights situation.

Among the key examples Dr Pinheiro cited were: Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the opposition National League of Democracy (NLD), is still under solitary confinement at home with a cook and a maid for company; the International Committee of the Red Cross cannot visit prisons; and there are no basic freedoms in Myanmar.

FORUM-ASIA (FA) was there to support Dr Pinheiro’s statements by distributing press kits prepared by the FA Burma programme team, including an NLD proposal for national reconciliation in Burma.

Read about the NLD proposal for national reconciliation.