Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

-
Image
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 ...
Post a Comment

Rule of Law committee receiving complaints

-
Monday, 22 October 2012 14:34 Mizzima News

The Lower House committee for the Rule of Law and Stability has received more than 1,700 complaint letters seeking help, according to an article on the Elevennews website on Sunday.

Most of the complaints are related to land disputes, and legal and judicial issues, said committee Secretary Win Myint. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is chairman of the committee.

Opposition leader and head of the parliamentary committee on Rule of Law and Stability Aung San Suu Kyi, center, Lower House Speaker Shwe Mann, second from right, attend a meeting of the committee at the Rangoon Division Parliament on Sept. 8, 2012. Photo: AFP

“The complaints come from across the country,” he told Elevennews. “We will deal with them by seeking cooperation from related ministries. He said the committee would try to improve the judicial system.

“We have plans to submit our findings to the parliament,” said committee member and MP Thein Nyunt.

The committee is charged with overseeing that lawmakers, judicial bodies, government staff and media conform to the rule of law.

Earlier, Mizzima reported that Parliament Legal Affairs and Investigating Committee member Than Maung told a Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) meeting that people must understand that the police, courts, public administrators and government staff are all public servants who are bound to serve within the rule and regulations of the government.

It’s necessary for people “to raise their voice over their grievances and dissatisfactions with the legal framework. Only then will there be rule of law and our country will keep up internationally as a democratic country,” Than Maung said.

During her by-election campaign, Suu Kyi made the rule of law a major campaign issue.

In June, Mizzima reported that Suu Kyi said Burma needed rule of law more than safeguards for investors at this time in the country’s transition to democracy.

Speaking at the 21st World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok on June 1, she warned businessmen “even the best investment law would be of no use whatsoever if there is no court clean enough and independent enough to be able to administer these laws justly.”

 “Good laws already exist in Burma, but we do not have a clean and independent judicial system. Unless we have such a system it is no use having the best laws in the world,” she said.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

World's longest internet shutdown ends in parts of Myanmar

-
Image
Rakhine people travel by motorcycle in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Western Myanmar, 02 February 2021. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA By AFP The world's longest internet shutdown -- affecting more than a million people for 19 months in one of Myanmar's ethnic conflict zones -- has come to an end, according to a mobile operator based in the region. The internet in parts of Myanmar's troubled northern states of Rakhine and Chin was suspended in June 2019 following "emergency" orders issued by the telecoms department under Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government. Following Monday's military coup, mobile operator Telenor Group confirmed it had reinstated full services in eight townships in Rakhine and Chin states on Wednesday. "Telenor Group and Telenor Myanmar have been advocating for the restoration of services and emphasised that freedom of expression through access to telecoms services should be maintained for humanitarian purposes," the company said in a stateme...
Read more

First ministerial meeting held

-
Image
Mizzima Myanmar held the first meeting among newly appointed ministers after a recent major cabinet reshuffle by the military in capital city of Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday morning, according to a release from the Military True News Information Team Xinhua reported. The Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, acting President U Myint Swe and nine newly appointed union ministers were present at the meeting held at the Presidential Palace, the release said. Min Aung Hlaing unveiled plans to include reopening religious buildings and pagodas, resuming domestic travel and hotel businesses as well as industries in line with COVID-19 rules and regulations, and revitalizing the country's economy.
Read more

Indonesia detains British woman on terror suspect list

-
Image
File photo of Indonesian police personnel standing guard. (Photo: AFP) AFP Indonesia has detained a British woman named on a list of global terror suspects and plans to deport her for visa violations, authorities told AFP Tuesday. Tazneen Miriam Sailar -- a Manchester-born convert to Islam married to an Indonesian jihadist who was killed in Syria -- is not charged with terror offences. But she and her late husband are on an Indonesian police list of suspected extremists that includes several foreigners notorious in the West. Sailar, 47, and her 10-year-old Indonesia-born son, were being held in Jakarta after being picked up last year without documents allowing her to remain in the Southeast Asian nation, her lawyer Farid Ghozali said. "She was put (in detention) while awaiting her return, which will be facilitated by the British embassy," Indonesian immigration directorate spokesman Ahmad Nursaleh told AFP. The embassy declined to comment, and it was unclear when...
Read more