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MCRB’s Work on ICT and Human Rights in Myanmar is Helping to Shape Global Practice

The research and findings from the pioneering Sector-Wide Impact Assessment (SWIA) on the Information and Communication Technology sector in Myanmar is being used to help shape approaches at the global level.

MCRB Responds to the Myanmar Government’s Consultation on Internet Gateway Services

MCRB has provided input into the Government consultation on Internet gateway services, (Deadline 31 January) with comments focussed on the privacy aspects of the proposal.

US State Department Reporting Requirements for Responsible Investment in Burma

MCRB has submitted comments recommending that the State Department maintains its requirement on US companies to report on investment in Burma (Myanmar), and has made some suggestions for improvement.

MCRB Welcomes Adoption of the Environmental Impact Assessment Procedures and Calls for Effective Implementation and Enforcement

The Myanmar Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry (MOECAF) has adopted its long-awaited Environmental Impact Assessment Procedures which have been put together with the help of the Asian Development Bank.

Tertiary Education Sector is Essential for Effective Environmental Impact Assessment in Myanmar

Vicky Bowman was invited to speak to a conference on Myanmar Geosciences Futures hosted at Yangon University with the support of the British Council and the UK Government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on 20 January.

Fine Line between FOC and Corruption

Fine Line between FOC and Corruption

The recent controversy concerning Htoo Group’s provision of free-of-charge hotel facilities at their Shwe Sann Ein Hotel for training of National League for Democracy MPs-elect provoked a debate in our Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business office.

“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ ဌာေနတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား၏ ရပိုင္ခြင့္ႏွင့္ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား “ ေခါင္းစဥ္ျဖင့္  (၃)ၾကိမ္ေျမာက္ ျမန္မာလူထုစကား၀ိုင္း၌ ၀င္ေရာက္ေဆြးေႏြး

၁၆ ရက္ေန႔ ဒီဇင္ဘာလတြင္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာစီးပြားေရးစင္တာ (IBC)၌ က်င္းပေသာ တတိယအၾကိမ္ ျမန္မာလူထု၏ စကား၀ိုင္း (MPF)၌ တိုင္းရင္းသား အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား ဆိုင္ရာ ပညာရွင္မ်ား ႏွင့္ ၀ိုင္းဖြဲ႔ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ၌ MCRB ၏ သုေတသနႏွင့္ ဆက္သြယ္ေရး မန္ေနဂ်ာ ႏွင္း၀တ္ရည္ သည္ ကၽြမ္းက်င

Caution Needed on the Proposed EU/Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement

Vicky Bowman spoke at the ‘Local Workshop on the EU-Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement: Impacts, Opportunities and Challenges’ in Yangon on 17 December.

Ngapali Beach - Paradise Lost?

Ngapali Beach - Paradise Lost?

Ngapali Beach continues to lose one of its greatest assets, despite beach sand being unsuitable for construction and regulations banning its removal. MCRB director Vicky Bowman believes that education is the key to solving the problem.

ေျမယာ၊ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခုခံကာကြယ္သူမ်ားႏွင့္ လူထုပါဝင္မႈတို႔သည္ ၂၀၁၆ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ စီးပြားေရးႏွင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဆိုင္ရာ ထိပ္တန္းျပႆနာသံုးခုျဖစ္သည္။

၂၀၁၆ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ စီးပြားေရးႏွင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဆိုင္ရာ ထိပ္တန္းျပႆနာမ်ားမွာ ေျမယာ၊ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခုခံကာကြယ္သူမ်ားႏွင့္ လူထုပါဝင္မႈတို႔ျဖစ္သည္ကို အက်ိဳးစီးပြား ပါဝင္ပတ္ သက္သူမ်ားအား ေအာက္တိုဘာလႏွင့္ ႏိုဝင္ဘာလအတြင္း အြန္လိုင္းမွတဆင့္ စစ္တမ္းေကာက

Children’s Rights and Business Principles in Asean

Vicky Bowman spoke to a group of government officials working on human rights, and children’s issues, from the 10 ASEAN member states and the ASEAN Secretariat.

Mobilise, Market, Mentor, and Monitor: How to Support Community-Involved Tourism in Myanmar

Myanmar has huge potential for community involved tourism (CIT) projects and a handful have already started. The early lessons from those initiatives are they will not succeed without communities being mobilized and supported over a long period.

Thilawa goes to Geneva

Thilawa goes to Geneva

At the 4th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, Vicky Bowman spoke at a panel discussion convened by the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights on ‘Multi-stakeholder engagement in Thilawa Special Economic Zone’.

Five Wishes for Responsible Business

Five Wishes for Responsible Business

The Myanmar Times has published an Op-Ed by Vicky Bowman, entitled ‘Five wishes for responsible business’, which sets out ideas for the next government to deepen and strengthen the policy and legal framework for responsible business in Myanmar.

UN FORUM SERIES - Encouraging transparency in Myanmar: Pwint Thit Sa

The Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) recently released its second annual report on Transparency in Myanmar Enterprises (TiME), otherwise known as Pwint Thit Sa (which means “new buds opening” in Burmese).

Blended Learning Course on Business and Human Rights at MNHRC  by DIHR and MCRB

A Blended Learning Course on Business and Human Rights has been conducted recently at MNHRC by the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business.

DIHR and MCRB conduct business and human rights training for the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission

The Danish Institute for Human Rights, a founder of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) recently conducted a three day training session on business and human rights for the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission, from 7-9 October.

Myanmar’s reformist law used to stifle dissent

Myanmar’s reformist law used to stifle dissent

Last week's arrest of an NGO worker in Myanmar for a Facebook post is raising fears that legislation drawn up as part of the country's economic and democratic liberalization are being used to stifle dissent...

“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္းတြင္ ေဒသခံမ်ားပိုမိုပါ၀င္ႏိုင္ေရးလိုအပ္”

“ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္းဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးမႈ အရွည္တည္တံ႕ေစေရး ေဒသဆိုင္ရာ တာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ား၊ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားအၾကား ပိုမိုပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ေရးလိုအပ္သလို၊ တခ်ိန္တည္းတြင္လည္း ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္းႏွင့္ ဆက္စပ္သည့္ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္မ်ားႏွင့္ ခရီးသြားလု

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနီးရင္ အင္တာနက္ က်တတ္တယ္၊ သတိထားပါ

ျမန္မာ့စီးပြားေရးက႑ တာဝန္ယူမႈရိွေရး အေထာက္အကူျပဳဌာန(MCRB) ၊ ယူေကအေျခစိုက္ Institute for Human Rights and Business(IHRB) နဲ႔ ဒိန္းမတ္အေျခစိုက္ Danish Institute for Human Rights(DIHR) တို႔ ပူးေပါင္းၿပီး စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၄ရက္က ဆက္သြယ္ေရးနဲ႔ နည္းပညာဆိုင္ရာ အစီရင္ခံစ

ေနာက္ဆုံးရ သတင္း

Recordings of the presentations are available to watch in English or in Thai. Click "See More" below the video for the link to the Thai version.

On 13 July, MCRB and Fair Finance Thailand co-hosted a webinar for Thai companies. Vicky Bowman, Director of MCRB, presented the human rights risks which companies currently need to take into account when doing business in Myanmar...

Launched in November 2022, the Myanmar Sustainable Business Network (MSBN) is a multistakeholder platform bringing together businesses and professionals committed to building a more sustainable economy in Myanmar through responsible business practices.

MSBN, a partnership between MCRB, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Myanmar and Yever, has submitted input to the consultations by the UN Global Digital Compact (UNGDC) highlighting digital rights priorities...

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