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MCRB Participates in Southeast Asia Digital Rights Camp

Wai Phyo Myint, MCRB’s Regional Outreach Manager, together with eight other participants from civil society organisations and media in Myanmar, participated in the Southeast Asia Digital Rights Camp in Yogjakarta, Indonesia from 22-26 October, 2017.

Myanmar Embraces CSR

Myanmar Embraces CSR

In a country long known for military monopolies and cronyism, the rules are changing fast, and businesses now are eager to be on the side of virtue, writes the Bangkok Post.

Distinguish Between the Legal Obligations and Voluntary Efforts Needed for a Mine to Earn a ‘Social Licence to Operate’

From 24 to 26 October, MCRB collaborated with WWF Myanmar and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) on a training workshop in Naypyidaw on Mining Sector Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Management.

MCRB director discusses Myanmar FDI and development in light of the Rakhine crisis

Mizzima’s Aung Thura sat down with MCRB Director Vicky Bowman to discuss the FDI, development in light of the Rakhine crisis.

Anti-Corruption Scores Have Improved Under the NLD Government

Anti-Corruption Scores Have Improved Under the NLD Government

On 30 September, Vicky Bowman gave a talk on ‘Corruption and Business in Myanmar – what needs to change?’ at Parami Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences as part of their Leadership talk series.

Vicky Bowman: It’s the many impacts of business on the environment which are of most concern.

Interview with MCRB Director Vicky Bowman by the Global New Light Of Myanmar.

Large Hydropower Projects in Ethnic Areas in Myanmar: Placing Community Participation and Gender Central to Decision Making

From 2016-2017, Hnin Wut Yee, MCRB’s Research and Outreach Manager participated in the MK 31 Nu-Thanlwin-Salween study project and this policy brief is prepared with the support of the project.

Regulating SMEs - supporting or strangling?

Regulating SMEs - supporting or strangling?

What Myanmar needs is a simple definition of small and medium-sized enterprise. Myanmar also needs an effective advocacy body for small businesses.

Workshop on Building Business Integrity Co-Hosted by MCRB and UNODC

MCRB and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime co-hosted a workshop for businesses to identify practical ways to enhance business integrity, resist corrupt practices and reduce exposure to the risks that corruption can pose.

Responsible Business and CSR: What Matters is Not ‘How Much?’ but ‘How’?

Vicky Bowman spoke about responsible business conduct, corporate social responsibility (CSR), creating shared value (CSV) and building a social licence to operate at a two-day seminar.

MCRB Discusses Beach Sand Mining in Ngwesaung with Pathein Township Officials

On 20 June, Vicky Bowman, Director, and Wai Phyo Myint, Regional Outreach Manager visited Pathein for a discussion of the problems of beach sand mining in Ngwesaung.

MCRB Submits Comments to the Hluttaw on the Bill concerning Artisanal Oil Production

On 8 June 2017, MCRB made a written submission in Burmese to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Joint Bill Committee on the Artisanal Oil Production Bill. The bill is currently under discussion in the Hluttaw.

MCRB joins Coalition for Telecom Law Reform on Advocacy Trip to Naypyidaw

On 22 June, Wai Phyo Myint, MCRB’s Regional Outreach Manager and another 10 organisations representing the 22 organisations in the Coalition for Telecoms Law Reform and the Abolition of Article 66(d) visited Naypyidaw.

MCRB Hosts a Roundtable Between Myanmar Civil Society Organisations and the Caux Roundtable Japan

On 23 June, MCRB hosted a discussion between the Caux Roundtable Japan and trade union and labour rights activists, organisations working on other business and human rights issues, at the Rose Garden Hotel, Yangon.

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ပိုမိုအားေကာင္းေသာ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းဆိုင္ရာ ပြင့္လင္း ျမင္သာမႈ ရွိလာေစရန္အတြက္ စည္းၾကပ္မႈ လမ္းေၾကာင္းမ်ား ဖြံံ႕ၿဖိဳးလာၿပီျဖစ္

ရန္ကုန္ စေတာ့အိပ္ခ်ိန္း တြင္ ဇြန္လ ၂၁ ရက္က ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ ေငြေခ်းသက္ေသခံလက္မွတ္ ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရး ေကာ္မရွင္ ႏွင့္ International Finance Corporation (IFC) တို႔ ပူးေပါင္းက်င္းပသည့္ “စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းဆိုင္ရာ ပြင့္လင္း ျမင္သာမႈတိုးျမွင့္ေရး ၊ ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာေသာ သတင

Consultation Held on the Discrimination and Business in Myanmar Briefing Paper

On 9th June 2017, MCRB held a consultation in Yangon to receive feedback and engage in discussion on the draft Discrimination and Business in Myanmar Briefing paper.

ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံရွိ ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္း အသိုင္းအဝုိင္းမ်ားမွ ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္းဆိုင္ရာ ကုန္စည္ ၃၀ ေက်ာ္အေတြ႔ အႀကံုမွ်ေဝ

ျမန္မာ့စီးပြားေရးက႑ တာဝန္ယူမႈရွိေရး အေထာက္အကူျပဳဌာန (MCRB)၊ Myanmar Responsible Tourism Initiative (MRTI) ႏွင့္ Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) တို႔က ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ရပ္ရြာလူထုႏွင့္ ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္း ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို ဇြန္လ ၁၃ရက္ႏွင့္ ၁၄ရက္တို႔တြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္၌ က်င

Publication of Conference Paper on Gender and Hydropower

Hnin Wut Yee from MCRB participated in an international conference held at Chulalongkorn University on 12 November 2016 to share the findings of the research related to water governance supported by the WLE Salween, Mekong and Red fellowship programs.

MCRB and Fauna and Flora International co-host a week of Tanintharyi Tourism workshops

MCRB and FFI held a week of multi-stakeholder workshops on sustainable tourism in Tanintharyi with a two day discussion focussed on Myeik District at the J&J Hotel on 15/16 May attended by around 60 local people involved in the tourism industry.

ေ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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