News From HART Foreign and Commonwealth Office – Sudan – Cluster Munitions (13 Oct 2015) Baroness Cox: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they plan to make to the government of Sudan following the findings by the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor that Sudanese armed forces used air-dropped cluster bombs in Darfur and South […]
News From HART For the International Day of the Girl Child, HART intern Rowena highlight HART’s work to empower and protect young women. Read it here! Burma Asia Justice and Rights released a report on how the conflict in Kachin and Karen states affect local women. Burmese voters are not being assisted in their election […]
News from HART Baroness Cox asked a supplementary question in the House of Lords. She asked Her Majesty’s Government what actions they are taking to support the National Ceasefire Agreement and electoral process in northern Shan and Kachin states. Burma Vice President Nyan Tun opened a 1 billion pound manufacturing complex on Wednesday. The […]
Yesterday, Baroness Cox asked a Supplementary Question in the House of Lords, highlighting the ongoing fighting in Kachin and northern Shan States in Burma and asking the Her Majesty’s Government what actions they are taking to support the National Ceasefire Agreement and electoral process in these two states: Baroness Cox (Cross Bench Peer): While recognising the […]
News from HART: The HART Team have returned safely from the visit to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. HART partner, Vardan, is doing very well, and has made developments in potential plans for a new centre – watch this space! Following our appeal for Dr Sasa, HART raised over £17,000 – thank you to all who contributed. […]
Flooding Heavy monsoon rains since mid-July have caused some of the worst flooding seen in years across almost all of Burma. Last week HART received an urgent request for help from Dr Sasa, our partner in one of the worst-hit areas in eastern Burma, and launched an appeal to raise funds on his behalf. […]
Urgent – Dr Sasa’s Flood Appeal HART has received an urgent request for help from our partner in Burma, Dr Sasa, following the devastating floods in the country. Over 330,000 people have been affected, and the death-toll, currently at 74, is expected to rise sharply. Dr Sasa and his team of health workers are acting to provide […]
News from HART: Julie Marangé has written a blog post called “If you were the Prime Minister of India, what would you do to improve the women rights situation in that country and how would you do it?” which was a shortlisted entry to the HART Prize for Human Rights. Read it here. Guest blogger, […]
News from HART Following the recent visit of the President of Nagorno-Karabakh to the UK, a new blog piece explores the implications of Nagorno-Karabakh’s elections earlier this year, including the ironies of the international response. The deadline for applications for the next round of HART’s internship programme is midnight TONIGHT. Find out more here. […]
News from HART: On Monday, 13th July, Baroness Cox has received answers to her Parliamentary Written Questions regarding recent developments in Sudan. Read the questions and responses here. There is new a blog post online discussing Uganda’s proposed NGO Bill and potential consequences. Read the full article here or check it out on our brand-new Medium […]
Yesterday, 9th July, Baroness Cox delivered a speech on the refugee crises in Burma and Sudan and the urgent need for cross-border aid, as part of a House of Lords debate on refugees and migrants from Africa and Asia. The debate was initiated by a motion put forward by Lord Alton, “That this House […]
News from HART: This week we published three blogs for World Refugee Day. They include: “Adrift: The Record Number of Refugees and the Challenges They Face” by Jack Lindsay; “The plight of Nigerian Refugees and Internally Displaced continues as Boko Haram insurgency grows” by Elisabeth Pramendorfer and “Sargsyan v Azerbaijan Case – an ECHR ruling […]
This Saturday marks the 14th annual World Refugee Day. First observed in 2001 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention related to the status of refugees, World Refugee Day is all about honouring what Save the Children describe as the “courage, strength and determination of men, women and children who are forced to […]
This week – Omar al-Bashir narrowly escapes ICC justice. – Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Sudan’s President Omar-al Bashir back in 2009 for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the court has been struggling to secure cooperation from governments around the world in arresting Bashir and bringing him to trial at […]
News from HART On 8th June, 56 Solidarity Groups, including HART, signed a letter calling for an ‘Immediate End to Offensives in Northern Burma/Myanmar and for the Provision of Unhindered Humanitarian Assistance to the IDPs’. On Saturday 6th June, protesters from the Sudanese diaspora and activists from around the world joined together in a demonstration in London […]
56 Solidarity Groups, including HART, have signed a letter calling for an ‘Immediate End to Offensives in Northern Burma/Myanmar and for the Provision of Unhindered Humanitarian Assistance to the IDPs‘. The letter was published today (8th June 2015), the day before the 4th year anniversary of the breaking of the 17-year-old ceasefire with the […]
On the 28th May, the House of Lords opened for the ‘Debate on the Humble Address – foreign affairs, European affairs, international development and defence’. Baroness Cox used this opportunity to highlight to the House ongoing human rights abuse against ethnic minorities in Burma, particularly in the Shan and Kachin states and genocide in Sudan, […]
A new report from Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) detailing ongoing human rights abuses, land expropriation and military offensives committed by the Burmese Army against the ethnic national peoples in Burma. The report is based upon findings from a recent visit to Burma, with interviews conducted with IDPs within Shan State and representatives from Community […]
This essay, by James Bradley, received second prize in the HART Prize for Human Rights Junior Essay Category. Read more entries here. Silence. It is eleven o’clock sharp at Kalaywa Tawya Monastery in Yangon. A seven-year-old sets his alms bowl on the table and sits cross-legged on the dining hall floor. He is one of 1,344 resident monks and […]
Yesterday, members of the House of Lords questioned the Government on escalating violence in the crackdown of peaceful protests by students. This led to fruitful debate surrounding the current political and military situations in Burma, continued conflict, the plight of the Rohingya people in particular as well as questioning UK support to the Burmese Government. […]
Caroline Cox’s ‘Credo’, originally published in ‘The Times’ on Saturday March 7 2015. It is also available on the Times website here. By Caroline Cox Some passages in the Bible resound with what I think of as a “reverse echo”. Like an echo, they reverberate through the generations, repeating the same message, but unlike an echo, […]
2015 is an important year in Aid and International Development. A new development agenda is being put together, to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which are due to expire this year, and a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being created. These new SDGS will have advocacy at their heart, and will […]
News from HART – Our Blog Series for Women’s Day #IWD2015 is almost coming to an end. Today, 6th March, Jack Lindsay explores the progress made in getting girls into schools and achieving the MDGs. Read the whole series here. – HART event: ‘Can Sudan’s elections take place without peace?’ will take place on 11th March […]
This is the first post in HART’s Blog Series for International Women’s Day 2015, taking place on the 8th March. Find out more here. Civil Society fills the gaps between the people and the government. Taking on a variety of forms, it is an arena in which ‘people take common actions to pursue common objectives without […]