Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

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Mizzima Mizzima, one of Myanmar ’s most prominent news outlets and a press freedom advocate, obtained the Journalism Trust Initiative ( JTI ) certification from global audit firm Bureau Veritas , JTI says in a press statement 5 January.  Operating in clandestine mode within Myanmar and supported by an exiled team, Mizzima strives to fulfil its role as reliable source of news and information for the Myanmar public. “Your Journalism Trust Initiative certification affirms what audiences already know: that principled, transparent journalism matters. Congratulations on this achievement and on your continued contribution to informing citizens about Myanmar,” says Benjamin Sabbah , director of Journalism Trust Initiative “Myanmar’s ongoing conflict has created an intensely contested media landscape, where mis- and disinformation are increasingly deployed to reinforce state propaganda and the prevailing “official” narrative. Although Mizzima is already regarded as one of the most trusted ...
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Burmese gov’t urged to remove military from Parliament

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Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:04 Mizzima News
 (Mizzima) – The Burmese Rohingya Organization (Brouk) has called for the Burmese government to introduce amendments to the 2008 Constitution – prior to the 2015 elections – that would remove the military's role in civilian politics, notably its seats in both houses of Parliament.

Brouk, in a resolution, said it welcomed the one-year suspension of E.U. sanctions on Burma earlier this week.

The resolution said the Burma citizenship law of 1982 was designed by former dictator General Ne Win to Remove Rohingya Muslims from the Arakan region. It violates fundamental principles of customary international law standards by depriving the Rohingya of their Burmese citizenship rendering them “stateless” in their own homeland, it said.

The 1982 citizenship law effects Rohingya in their all activities such as restrictions on movement, marriage and education.

The continued rejection of Rohingya’s citizenship rights and ethnic rights by the government of Thein Sein is the main contributing factor to the growth of the refugee problem and the “boat people” crisis in the region, the resolution said.

“The extreme situation has forced them to prefer to take perilous voyages by rickety boats across seas and oceans rather than live in their homeland; as a result hundreds of Rohingya boat people drowned over the years,” said he resolution, which also called on the government to release all remaining political prisoners without delay and conditions.

It called for allowing free access for the International Committee of the Red Cross and international human rights bodies to Burma’s  prisons, and for the National Human Rights Commission to intensify its work of promoting and safeguarding the fundamental rights of citizens.

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