Canberra Centre International PEN
PO Box 134
Campbell
Canberra ACT 2612

Canberra Centre International PEN
Writers in Prison Committee
PO Box 261
Dickson
Canberra ACT 2602
Tel/Fax: 61 02 62480912
E-mail: anugent@dynamite.com.au

The following draft of the Burma Action Directory provides a tremendous resource for people interested in Burma. 

Thanks to BurmaNet !!!

THE BURMA ACTION DIRECTORY (BAD)

Burma Peace Foundation
85, Rue de Montbrillant,
1202, Geneva, Switzerland
Tel/Fax (+41-22) 733 2040
Email darnott@iprolink.ch

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BURMANET SUBJECT-MATTER RESOURCE LIST (23/04/98)

BurmaNet regularly receives inquiries on a number of different
topics related to Burma. If you have questions on any of the
following subjects, please direct email to the following
volunteer coordinators, who will either answer your question
or try to put you in contact with someone who can:

Campus activism:         zni@students.wisc.edu
Boycott campaigns:       Dan Orzech: orzech@well.com
Buddhism:           Buddhist Relief Mission: brelief@gol.com
Chin history/culture:         [volunteer needed]
Fonts:                tom@cs.colgate.edu
High School Activism:     Zan Rubin: cyclic@mediacity.com
History of Burma:        zni@students.wisc.edu
International Affairs:        Julien Moe: moe@interport.net 
Kachin history/culture:     74750.1267@compuserve.com  
Karen history/culture:       Karen Historical Society:
102113.2571@Compuserve.com
Mon history/culture:        [volunteer needed]
Naga history/culture:         Wungram Shishak:
z954001@oats.farm.niu.edu
Burma-India border       aungsan@giasd101.vsnl.net.in
Pipeline Campaign :      freeburma@irn.org
Resettlement info:       refugee_help@mail.serve.com
Rakhaing (Arakan) history/culture:Kyaw Tha Hla:
thisthis@nyc.pipeline.com
Rohingya culture         volunteer needed
Selective Purchasing        Dan Orzech: orzech@well.com
                 Simon Billenness: sbillenness@frdc.com
Shan history/culture:      Sao Hpa Han: burma@ix.netcom.com
Shareholder activism:    S imon Billenness:
sbillenness@frdc.com
Teak Boycott          Tim Keating: relief@igc.org
Total - France        Dawn Star: cd@utopia.EUnet.fr
Tourism campaigns:    bagp@gn.apc.org "Attn. S. Sutcliffe"   
volunteering:         refugee_help@mail.serve.com
World Wide Web:       FreeBurma@POBox.com

REGIONAL CONTACTS:
Australia:          Australia Burma Council: azappia@spirit.com.au
Canada:               Canadian Friends of Burma: cfob@web.net
Great Britain:               Burma Action Group/UK: bagp@gn.apc.org
United States --
New England:                 Simon Billenness: sbillenness@frdc.com
Northwest       Larry Dohrs: dohrs@u.washington.edu

[Feel free to suggest more areas of coverage]

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                           NEWS GROUPS
There are many news groups on the Internet with relevance for
Burma.  Many of these are USENET groups, such as:

soc.culture.burma
soc.culture.thai
soc.culture asean
soc.rights.human

Many of the most useful, however, such as

apc.reg.burma (going back to the end of 1993)
apc.hrnet.asia-pac
apc.hr.asiapacific
apc.labr.asia
apc.labr.global

are IGC conferences  (Inst for Global Communications, part of
APC -- Association for Progressive Communications)

To get access, you need an igc (or igc partner) account.  You
can find out how to get this by:
writing to IGC, PO Box 29904, San Francisco, CA
94129-0904,USA, 
phoning  (+1-415) 561 6100, or
emailing to igc-info@igc.apc.org


BURMA NEWS UPDATE

Burma News Update is a one-page news summary sent to
subscribers by fax and/or email on an occasional basis,
highlighting breaking news and providing important background
information. Burma News Update is a publication of the Burma
Project, Open Society Institute, and can also be found on the
World Wide Web at:
http://www.soros.org/burma/burma_update/index.html.

To subscribe, write:

Burma Project
Open Society Institute
400 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
USA
tel: (212) 548-0632
fax: (212) 548-4655
burma@sorosny.org

If you would like to receive an email version, please send an
email to Majordomo@soros.org. Leave the subject field blank,
and in the body of the message, type "subscribe bnu (your
email address here)".


                BURMA-RELATED WEBSITES AND GOPHERS


BURMA SUPPORT COMMUNITY WEBSITES AND GOPHERS

BURMANET GOPHER
gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:2998/7REG-BURMA

This is perhaps the best Burma information search tool
available online.  It searches the igc conference reg.burma
(whence cometh burmanet-l) from its beginning at the end of
1993.  However, since the gopher has a default of 40 topics,
you have to append to your query "-m 13" (or whatever maximum
number of topics you want, being careful to leave a gap
between your keyword and the hyphen).  (e.g."kachin -m 13"
gave 13 documents out of 769.  "kachin -m 130" gave 130).  It
also supports Boolean searches.  Thus, when I put in "kachin
-m 300 AND women", it gave me 300 (out of 352), and when I
narrowed it down to "kachin -m 300 AND women AND 1994", it
gave me 212 documents.

(See item 14, below, for general search engines)


BURMA SONG (artistic and multimedia materials promoting
democracy in Burma):
http://users.imagiware.com/wtongue


FREEBURMAWEBSITE (Lots of stuff and links. Can be
overwhelming)

http://FreeBurma.org

http://sunsite.unc.edu/freeburma/index.html

"Please write to FreeBurma@pobox.com to add a site or for
further information."

Ordering videos about Burma:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/freeburma/analoginfo.html

To post your own info on Burma:        
http://sunsite.unc.edu/burma-bin/WebX

BurmaNet News back issues:
ftp://Sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/political-science/
freeburma

Burma nntp news server
http://hq.freeburma.org/

Burma.Net: http://www.Burma.net

Audio News Programs

Voice of America in Burmese:    http://www.voa.gov/burmese/


OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE'S BURMA PROJECT

(Large, well-organised site with lots of links, good READING
LIST  etc.etc)

Homepage
http://www.soros.org/burma/html

Links
http://www.soros.org/burma/linkread.html

Burma news archive
http://www.soros.org/burma/burmarch.html


BURMA PROJECT, BERLIN
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~merdian/burma.htm

FREE BURMA COALITION (Activist.  Mainly students)
http://danenet.wicip.org/fbc

BURMA SUPPORT GROUP, AUSTRALIA
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~winpe/

PEOPLES' FORUM ON BURMA (JAPAN)
http://www2.gol.com/users/rutledge/pfb/

BURMA RELIEF (JAPAN)
http://www2.gol.com/users/brelief/Index.htm

DANISH BURMA COMMITTEE
URL http://www.aif.dk/burmacommittee

THE BURMESE GULAG-- JOHN PILGER
http://caq.com/CAQ58burmese.html

EURO-BURMANET (Lots of stuff, particularly on Total and
drugs, but extremely chaotic. One-man cyberspace operation.
Not linked to the Burma movement in Europe)
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/

J CHIEN'S PAGE (some useful stuff, but mainly old docs and
dead links)
http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu:80/~jrchien/


BURMESE ETHNIC/RELIGIOUS GROUPS

MONLAND INFO (Somewhat dated material)
http://www.albany.edu/~gb661/mons.txt

MON LANGUAGE AND MON PEOPLE
http://www.centralnet.net/honsawatoi.Monland.html

SHAN RESOURCES AND INFORMATION:
http://www.netcom.com/~burma/tai/shan.html.

KANBAWSA: ARTICLES ON SHAN STATE
http://www.iware.com/~khai/kanbawsa/

NAGALAND HOMEPAGE
http://www.rpi.edu/~shishz/

MUSLIMS OF BURMA
http://www.Nayzak.com/~aliburma/muslims.htm

PALAUNG WEBSITE
http://www.ad2000.org/profiles/palaung.htm

AKHA HERITAGE FOUNDATION (mainly Thailand)
http://www.thailine.com/akha/newslett.htm


SLORC WEBSITES

SLORC HOMEPAGE (Very jolly site, full of pics of soldiers,
dancers and temples)
http://www.myanmar.com/

MYANMAR MISSION, GENEVA
http://www3.itu.int/MISSIONS/Myanmar/



GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

ASEAN SECRETARIAT (with homepages of most ASEAN countries)
http://www.aseansec.org/

SINGAPORE GOVT
http://www.gov.sg/

MALAYSIA GOVT
http://www2.jaring.my/

MALAYSIAN MISSION, NEW YORK
http://www.undp.org/missions/malaysia/

JAPAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
http://www2.nttca.com:8010/infomofa/

EUROPEAN UNION (Big, messy site.  No search engine as of 7
Sept 97)
http://www.europa.eu.int/news-en.htm

US STATE DEPT
http://www.state.gov/

1996 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON BURMA FROM THE US STATE DEPT
http://www.state.gov/www/issues/human_rights/1996_hrp_report/burma.html

USIA - US GOVT STATEMENTS/LAWS REGARDING BURMA:
http://www.usia.gov/regional/ea/burma/burma/htm

US CONGRESS INFORMATION ON BURMA
http://www.clark.net/pub/burmaus/

AUSTRALIAN GOVT/ INTL NEWS ON BURMA
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4474



UN SYSTEM ETC

UNDCP WEBSITE (contains a good general list of the UN system)
http://www.undcp.org/index.html

UN LINKS (Geneva-based UN websites)
http://www.unog.ch/frames/unlinks.htm

UN HUMAN RIGHTS HOMEPAGE (Resolutions, reports, human rights
instruments etc.
Lots of stuff, very well organised.  Documents aussi en
francais)
http://www.unhchr.ch/HCHR_UN.HTM

UN NEW YORK
http://www.un.org/

UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/

UNICEF SEARCH
http://www.unicef.org/search/search.htm

UNDP GOPHER
gopher://gopher.undp.org/

DEPARTMENT FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS -RELIEFWEB
http://www.reliefweb.int/
(Reports on floods in Burma)

ESCAP (Bangkok)
http://www.un.org/Depts/escap/

UNHCR
http://www.unhcr.ch/

REFWORLD   (UNHCR Documentation Centre's website. Very well
organised. Lots of refugee and other documents)
www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld.htm

ILO
http://www.ilo.org/

IMF
http://www.imf.org/external/

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (Financial data on Myanmar)
http://www.asiandevbank.org/index.html

WORLD BANK
http://www.worldbank.org/

WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
http://www.wto.org/wto/index.htm


HUMAN RIGHTS AND OTHER RESOURCES AND ORGANISATIONS

IGC HOMEPAGE (HR networks)
http://www.igc.org/igc/

GREENNET HOMEPAGE (ditto)
http://www.gn.apc.org/

ONEWORLD HOMEPAGE (links to 200 groups)
http://www.oneworld.org/partners/partners_list/index.html

DIRECTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
http://shr.aaas.org/dhr.htm

RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL
www.rightsinternational.org

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
http://www.amnesty.org/

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH/ASIA

gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:5000/11/int/hrw/asia/burma

http://www.hrw.org/research/burma.html

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS
http://www.icftu.org/english/turights/eturacon.html

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS
http://www.ifj.org/

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF CHEMICAL, ENERGY, MINING AND
GENERAL WORKERS' UNIONS (ICEM)  
http://www.icem.org/

HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNET (Also documents and networking)
http://www.hri.ca/index.htm

INDEX ON CENSORSHIP
http://www.oneworld.org/index_oc/index.html

RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK
http://www.ran.org/ran/

TERRA (environmental)
http://www.irn.org/terra/index.html

FORUM OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERS OF THE ASIA/PACIFIC
(lots of good human rights, academic and other Burma-related
links)
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/bigkarma/fdlap/fdlinits.html

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIC
DEVELOPMENT (francais, espanol, English)
http://www.ichrdd.ca/

INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION
http://www.ipu.org/

PARC HOMEPAGE (NGO network, Japan, Publishes AMPO)
http://www.jca.or.jp/parc/index-e.htm

INTERNATIONAL COMMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
http://www.icrc.ch


HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS

UN HUMAN RIGHTS HOMEPAGE (Resolutions, reports, human rights
instruments etc. Lots of stuff, very well organised.
Documents aussi en francais)
http://www.unhchr.ch

PROJECT DIANA (human rights documents)
http://www.law.uc.edu:81/Diana/index.html

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA HUMAN RIGHTS LIBRARY
http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/index.html
HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNET
http://www.hri.ca/index.htm


HUMANITARIAN

DR CYNTHIA'S HOMEPAGE
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kwangett/burma/

BURMESE REFUGEE PROJECT, run by SloMSIC, IFMSA:
http://www.sou.uni-lj.si/mp/slomsic/burma/burma.html

DEPARTMENT FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS -RELIEFWEB
http://www.reliefweb.int/
(Reports on floods in Burma)


CORPORATIONS AND THE OPPOSITION

CORPORATIONS AND THE OPPOSITION/ETHICS OF INVESTMENT IN BURMA
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3108/

BURMA, HUMAN RIGHTS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
http://www.efund.com/burma_intro.html

UNOCAL

http://www.unocal.com/myanmar/

http://www.unocal.com/myanmar/index.htm

http://www.unocal.com/myanmar/index.htm

http://www.unocal.com/ogops/myanmar.htm

http://www.unocal.com/ogops/yadindx.htm

TOTAL

http://www.total.com/index.html

http://www.total.com/us/cahier/yadana.html

ACADEMIC

UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS,
ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/myanmar/

LEIDEN UNIVERSITY BURMA VIRTUAL LIBRARY (pretty feeble)
http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeas/burma.html

INST.  OF SE ASIA STUDIES (Singapore)
http://www.iseas.ac.sg/iseas.html

SOAS BURMESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (links to online
resources)
http://www.soas.ac.uk/SouthEastAsia/Burmese.html

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR BURMA STUDIES
http://www.niu.edu/acad/burma/


GENERAL INFORMATION

CONFLITS CONTEMPORAINS (some good links)
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/wars/burmaf.html

MAP OF BURMA
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/country_maps/burma.gif


KISCADALE PUBLICATIONS (Books on Burma)
http://www.britainburma.demon.co.uk/Kiscadale/index.html

BRITAIN BURMA ASSOCIATION
http://www.britainburma.demon.co.uk/

MYANMA COMPUTER CO (Map, links, Yangon Directory etc)
http://members.aol.com/mccltd/index.htm

MYANMAR, LAND OF PAGODAS  (general info, stats etc.
interesting links.  No politics)
http://triton.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~moe/myanmar.htm

BANGKOKNET BURMA PAGES
http://www.bangkoknet.com/indochina/burma.html
                           
BBC WORLD SERVICE (RADIO/BURMESE)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/burmese/index.htm

RADIO FREE ASIA (Burmese)
http://www.rfa.org/burmese.html

DEMOCRATIC VOICE OF BURMA
http://www.communique.no/dvb/