Global Justice Center Blog
How to Talk About Burma? Question and Answer
The Current Situation in Burma
The Burmese military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), continues to exercise dictatorial control over the lives of the people of Burma as it has done with impunity over forty years. The junta routinely employs torture, rape, slavery, murder, forced displacement, and mass imprisonment to consolidate its power and silence any dissent. These acts are criminal violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.
Letter to Irene Kahn: Re: Urgent Clarification Needed on Amnesty International’s June 2008 Security Council Recommendations on Burma
CEDAW and Colombia: The Path to Liberalizing Colombia’s Abortion Laws
On May 10th, 2006, the Constitutional Court of Colombia made a historic decision, overturning the nation’s total ban on abortion, and ruling that abortions would now be permitted in the most extreme cases: “when the life of a mother was in danger or the fetus was expected to die or in cases of rape or incest.” This unprecedented case was the first to challenge a domestic abortion law using the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).