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Thai-Burma Border
Overview
Few governments around the world match the Burmese military regime for repression. Opposition and dissent is brutally crushed, civil organisations such as trade unions suppressed, forced labour, slave labour and child labour is common, and the ruling military elite is noted for its corruption and involvement in the illicit drugs trade.
Refugees from Burma
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Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA is assisting six projects for Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burma border. These support medic training and mobile medical clinics, vocational training for refugee and displaced communities, schools for refugees as well as support to information and labour rights education and support for workers in Thailand.
Strategy
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has been directly assisting refugees and migrant workers on the Thai-Burma border since 1995. Projects supported include direct health services, technical and vocational training, and labour rights education and support for migrant workers and refugees.
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History
Thai-Burma Border projects 2004-05
In 2004–05 Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA had two projects on the Thai-Burma border: - Health care for Shan refugees (Shan Health Clinic)
- Skills training & income generation and Leadership & capacity building for Karen refugee women (KWO)
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Projects
MAP Foundation
MAP works with Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA to support Burmese refugees working in Thailand. Because they are not able to register (as Thailand does not acknowledge their refugee status) these working refugees have little protection. MAP and Union Aid Abroad APHEDA assist Burmese refugees in areas of health and safety....
Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO)
Union Aid Abroad APHEDA has been in partnership with KWO for many years. Together we have trained hundreds of women in vocational education skills, women's rights and human rights providing them with knowledge and opportunities for the future....
Mae Tao Clinic - Burma Children's Medical Fund (BCMF)
Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA is proud to work with the Mae Tao Clinic's BCMF program. The clinic provides essential health care to refugees from Burma and the BCMF supports special needs patients who cannot be treated at the clinic. ...
Shan Health Clinic
The Shan Health Clinic provided free medical assistance to Shan refugees who have fled Burma due to ongoing conflict and repression. All 5,000 people living in the camp have access to health care at no cost provided by Union Aid Abroad APHEDA and our partner, the Shan Health Committee....
Burma Labour Solidarity Organization (BLSO)
Union Aid Abroad APHEDA and the Burma Labour Solidarity Organisation have work together to educate Burmese Refugee workers and their children. Burmese refugees working as migrant labourers have little access to services for their children. These children often have special needs because their parents transient lifestyle has ment they have missed several years of school. BLSO aims to create a school environment that caters to their needs....
Latest Thai-Burma Border News
Burma Regime Defies UN with Sham Referendum and Election - 11 February 2008
The Burma Campaign UK today called on the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency session to discuss the Burmese regime's defiance of Security Council and General Assembly demands....
Burma's "Saffron Revolution" is not over - 19 January 2008
International trade union and human rights organisations say international community must seize the opportunity now!Read the ITUC-FIDH report on the current situation inside Burma....
Help the people of Burma! Stand with them in solidarity! - 27 September 2007
The events in Burma in the past month have been extraordinary. Up to 100,000 people have taken to the streets, defying one of the most brutal military regimes in the world, to demand their rights....
Nuns join anti-junta rallies - 24 September 2007
RANGOON, 24 September 2007: About 10,000 Buddhist monks, joined for the first time by more than 1000 nuns, demonstrated against Burma's military junta in the country's largest city yesterday, with many shouting support for the detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi....
Extraordinary developments in Burma - 24 September 2007
Rangoon, Sunday 23 September. 4:00 p.m.—The crowds of demonstrators in downtown Rangoon grew to an estimated 20,000, including about 5,000 Buddhist monks and nuns, by mid-afternoon on Sunday. To the cheers and applause of bystanders, they chanted support for detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to eyewitnesses. The demonstrators passed the US Embassy before heading for the Sule Pagoda in the heart of the city....
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