Perspectives in Practice features content from high-profile human rights advocates, young professionals, and LL.M. students. Perspectives contains longer articles that are more scholarly in nature than those included in the Updates pages.
Perspectives
In Their Own Words: Burmese Law Students Respond to Reports of Economic Change
May 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By the Peace Law Academy Class of 2010 The Burma Lawyers’ Council (BLC) is an independent organization of Burmese lawyers on the Thai-Burma border that fights oppression and human rights abuses in Burma (Myanmar) and advocates for the restoration of the rule of law. The BLC runs a two-year capacity-building law school known as the [Read More...]
Economic Advice Unlikely to Create Real Improvements for Burma’s Poor
December 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
By Andrea Gittleman* Joseph Stiglitz, advisor to President Obama and a professor at Columbia University, is scheduled to speak to representatives of the Burmese military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), about poverty alleviation strategies during a visit later this month. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist famous for his research on economic development, [Read More...]
ASEAN Snubs Civil Society Groups, Dashes Hopes for Effective Human Rights Mechanism
October 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
By Andrea Gittleman* All eyes were on Cha-Am, Thailand on October 23, 2009, when Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders met to inaugurate the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR). The Commission is fraught with serious problems such as a lack of independence from member states – Burma’s representative to the AICHR, for [Read More...]
