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Det indiske selskapet Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited samarbeider med det militæreide forretnings-konglomeratet Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC) om å bygge en ny konteinerhavn i Yangon, ifølge en fersk rapport fra ACIJ og JFM.

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As any PR person will tell you, governments that slaughter their own citizens will struggle when it comes to doing business. Very few companies will tolerate being linked to gross human rights abuses, and that appears to be the case with the Tatmadaw – as the notorious Myanmar military is known.

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Verleden week bleek dat ABP en PFZW beleggen in 36 bedrijven die betrokken zijn bij schendingen van de mensenrechten. Conclusie: de pensioenfondsen hebben nog steeds hun beleid niet op orde.

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미얀마 군부의 민간인 학살이 계속되는 상황에서 한국 기업, 포스코가 국제 사회의 비난을 받고 있습니다. 포스코가 하고 있는 미얀마 가스 전 사업이 군부의 돈줄로 의심받고 있는 건데요.

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En Birmanie, les manifestations contre la junte qui a renversé le gouvernement civil d'Aung San Suu Kyi, et la répression de la contestation se poursuivent. Selon l'Association d'assistance aux prisonniers politiques, plus de 550 civils ont été tués depuis le putsch.

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Investors are urging South Korean industrial group Posco to exit a steel joint venture with a Myanmar military-controlled conglomerate as pressure builds on multinationals to cut financial links with the country’s junta.

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Activists have accused energy companies of complicity in the Myanmar junta’s murder of protesters, after Total, the French giant, said that it would continue to pay taxes to the regime.

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ANZ Bank has declined to sign a letter condemning the violence in Myanmar, despite calls from local and international activist organisations for global companies to publicly align themselves with pro-democracy protesters.

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기본소득당 용혜인 의원은 4월 5일 오전 국회 소통관에서 긴급브리핑을 통해 “격화되고 있는 미얀마 사태를 해결하기 위해서 국회와 정부가 실질적 조치를 취해야 한다”고 촉구했다.

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Giant South Korea steelmaker POSCO has begun reviewing how it might end a joint venture with a firm controlled by the military in Myanmar in the wake of the coup there in February, two people with first-hand knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

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