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In Perspective: Obama's Historic Trip to Myanmar Raises Questions about Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy

Originally published in the Daily Bruin

 
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Taking Risks to Teach Lessons

The Daily Bruin student newspaper reports on one students long journey to bring a school to ethnic Karen refugees in Burma.

 
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Four UCLA Students Honored With Humanitarian Award for Volunteer Efforts

Benjamin Moore, a member of Bruins for Burma, spent his spring break preparing for the opening of a high school at a refugee camp for Burma's ethnic Karen minority.

 
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Breaking Burma's Isolation

Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.), Henrietta H. Fore and Suzanne DiMaggio convene a task force under the auspices of the Asia Society to ponder how the United States can pursue a new path of engagement with Myanmar.

 
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Kantathi Suphamongkhon on 'R2P' and the 2008 Myanmar Cyclone

Kantathi Suphamongkhon, former foreign minister of Thailand and senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations discusses the international communitys response to the 2008 Myanmar cyclone. Suphamongkhon made his remarks as part of the UCLA Burkle Center's 2009 Annual Conference.

 
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Blind Eye in Burma

Multinational corporations that partner with the Burmese military and military-led government share the responsibility for human rights abuses, argue two representatives of EarthRights International at UCLA.

 
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Michael L. Ross: Rein in 'Oil Bully' Burma

In this video op-ed, Michael L. Ross, a UCLA political scientist and acting director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, explains the dynamics that allow oil-exporting nations, particularly Myanmar (Burma), to win influence and political cover for human rights abuses.

 
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Myanmar, the Latest Petro Bully

Sky-high oil prices allow the junta, and other bad actors, to thrive and buy political protection, writes Michael L. Ross in The Los Angeles Times. (Photo courtesy of Thompson/Essential Science Information)