Freedom Award for Burma's democracy leader

အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၀ါရွင္တန္ဒီစီ အေျခစိုက္ Freedom House အဖဲြ ့ ရဲ  ့  Freedom Award ဆု အတြက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုျကည္ကုိ ေရြးခ်ယ္လိုက္ျကပါတယ္။

“ ဖမ္းဆီးမွဳ၊ တားဆီးဟန္ ့တားမွဳမ်ိဳးစံု ျကားက ျမန္မာလူထု လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ အစဥ္တစိုက္ ရုန္းကန္ လွဳပ္ရွားေနတဲ့ ေအာင္ဆန္းစုျကည္ ဟာ ဒီဆုနဲ ့ အထိုက္တန္ဆံုး သူတစ္ဦးပါ”  လို ့ Freedom House အဖဲြ ့ ရဲ  ့ ဥဣဌ David J. Kramer က ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၂၆ ရက္ေန ့မနက္ပိုင္းမွာ ေျကျငာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီကေန ့ည ၇နာရီခဲြ အသင္းရဲ ့ ၇၀ နွစ္ျပည့္ နွစ္ပတ္လည္ အခမ္းအနားမွာ ဆုခ်ီးျမွင့္တဲ့ အခမ္းအနားကုိ ပူးတဲြက်င္းပမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

(Freedom House အဖဲြ ့ကုိ ၁၉၄၁ ခုႏွစ္ ကတည္းက စတင္တည္ေထာင္ခဲ့ျပီး၊ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ နွစ္ေပါင္း ၇၀ အတြင္း  ကမၻာ ့ႏိုင္ငံအသီးသီး ရွိ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရး၊ လူ ့အခြင့္အေရး ဆိုင္ရာ စာအုပ္မ်ား၊ မွတ္တမ္းမ်ား ထုတ္ေ၀ျခင္း၊ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြမ်ား က်င္းပေပးျခင္း နဲ ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရး အတြက္ ရုန္းကန္လွဳပ္ရွားေနတဲ့ သူေတြကုိ ကူညီပံ့ပိုးျခင္း စတဲ့ လွဳပ္ငန္းစဥ္ေတြကုိ လုပ္ကိုင္ခဲ့တဲ့ အဖဲြ ့အစည္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။)

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုျကည္ ကုိ ခ်ီးျမွင့္ ခဲ့သည့္ ဂုဏ္ျပဳမွတ္တမ္း နင့္ ဆုအခ်ိဳ ့  

Aung San Suu Kyi has received following awards, degrees and prizes from international organizations:  

1. Honorary Fellow St Hugh's College (Oxford, UK) 1990
2. Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize (Norway) 1990
3. Sakharov Freedom of Thought (European Parliament) 1991
4. Nobel Peace Oslo, Norway 1991
5. Honorary Member International PEN (Norwegian Center) 1991
6. Humanities Human Rights Award (USA) 1991
7. Honorary Member International PEN (Candian Center) 1991
8. Marisa Bellisario Price Italy 1992
9. Annual Award of the international Human Rights Law Group (USA) 1992
10.  Honorary President Students' Union London School of Economics and Political Science ( UK ) 1992
11. Honorary Member International PEN (English Centre) 1992
12. Honrary Life Member University of London Union (UK) 1992
13. Honorary Professional Fellowship Law and Society Trust (Sri Lanka) 1992
14. Honorary Doctorate in Political Science Thammasat University (Thailand) 1992
15. International Simon Bolivar prize UNESCO 1992
16. Prix Litteraire des Droits de l'Homme Nouveaux Droits de l'Homme, France 1992
17. Honorary Member World Commission on Culture and Development (UNESCO) 1992
18. Member Academie Universelle des Cultures (Paris) 1993
19. Rose Prize arbejderbevaegelsens Internationale Forum/International Forum of the Danish Labour Movement, Copenhagen 1993
20. Victor Jara International Human Rights Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, USA 1993
21. Member of the Advisory Board Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University 1993
22. Honorary Doctorate of Law University of Toronto (Canada) 1993
23. The Freedom of the City Commune of Giugliano, Italy 1993
24. Bremen Solidarity City of Bremen, Germany 1993
25. Premio Mujer Progresista (Federacion Mujeres Progresistas / Spanish Federation of Progressive Women, Madrid) 1993
26. Honorary Doctorate Philosophy & Letters, Free University of Brussels 1994
27. Honorary Adviser Forum of Democratic Leaders in the Asia-Pacific 1994
28. The Freedom of the City Aversa, Italy 1995
29. Liberal International Prize for Freedom Britanints Liberal Democracy Party, UK 1995
30. Honorary Doctorate of Laws Queen's University, Canada 1995
31. Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (for 1993) India 1995
32. Gandhi Award Simon Fraser University, Canada 1995
33. Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law University of Oxford 1995
34. IRC Freedom Award International Rescue Committee 1995
35. Companion of the Order of Australia Australia 1996
36. Liberal International Prize (UK) 1996
37. Asia Human Rights of Law (Japan) 1996
38. W.Averell Harrimen Democracy Award National Democratic Institute U.S.A 1996
39. Rajiv Shmirti Parashka [Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Award] India 1996
40. Empty Chair Award Women of the Year Lunch, London, UK 1996
41. Honorary Doctorate of Law Charles University in Prague, Czeeh Republic) 1997
42. Honorary Doctorate of Letters Sydney University of Technology, Australia 1997
43. Honorary Doctorate of Letters California Chapman University, U.S.A 1997
44. Honorary Doctorate of Law Natal University, South Africa 1997
45. Honorary Doctorate of Law America University,Washington D.C, U.S.A 1997
46. Distinguished Alumni Award Central University / Delhi University 1997
47. Honorary Citizenship of Rome (Italy) (May 23,1997) 1997
48. Honorary Doctorate of Letters Glasgow University (UK) 1997
49. Pearl S. Buck Woman's Award Pearl S. Buck Foundation (USA) 1997
50. International Award St. Angela's Peace and Justice Group, Waterford (Eire) 1997
51. Profiles in Courage Award Kennedy Society of Denmark 1997
52. Honorary Doctorate Cambridge University (June 1998) 1998
53. Freedom of the City (Oxford, UK) 1998
54. Honorary Doctorate of Laws University of Wales, Cardiff 1998
55. Honorary Doctorate of Laws University of Bristol (UK) 1998
56. Honorary Doctorate of Laws University of Melbourne (Australia) 1998
57. Honorary degree Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium - December 1998
58. Honorary Degree University of Bath (UK) - December 1998
59. Honorary Degree Bucknell University - May 1999
60. Freedom Award International Republican Institute, USA (October 1999) 1999
61. The Freedom of the City of Dublin Award Ireland (November 1999) 1999
62. 2000 CAW Nelson Mandela Human Rights Award Canada (December 2000) 2000
63. Presidential Medal of Freedom Award U.S.A. (December 2000) 2000
64. Collage United Nations Prize 2001 Germany (June 2001) 2001
65. International Social Welfare Prize University of Southern CaliforniaSchool of Social Work- (December 8) 2001
66. Al Neuharth Free Spirit Award U.S. Foundation, Washington, USA 2003
67. MTV Humanitarian Award, "Free Your Mind" MTV Europe, EDINBURGH, UK 2003
68. The 2004 TIME 100, The most influential people in the world today TIME Magazine 2004
69. Kwangju Human Rights Award May 18 Memory Foundation from South Korea 2004
70. TIME's Asia's Hero 2004 TIME MAGAZINE (2004)
71. The Honorary Citizen of Paris France  (2004)
72. Honorary Doctorate in Politics, Philosophy and Economics Rangsit University (2004)
73. Outstanding Women in Buddhism United Nations Gender and Religious department (2005)
74. Honory Degree in Political Science Thammasat University, Thailand (2005)
75. Freedom of the City Award The City Council of Edinburgh, Scotland (2005)
76. Freedom of Galway City Galway city, Ireland June 2005
77. UNISON Honorary Membership UNISON, Britain's largest trade union, June 2005
78. Olof Palme Prize Sweden, February 2006
79. Freedom Award Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, USA March 2006
80. New Statesmen Magazine Hero New Statesmen Magazine, May 2006
81. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Deshprem Award, India, 2007
82. Award from University of Cape Town, South Africa
83. Doctorate of Letters (honoris causa) from Colgate University (2008)
84. Congressional Gold Medal (2008)
85. Premi Internacional Catalunya (2008)
86. Honorary Member of the Club of Madrid (2008)
87. Freedom Of Glasgow (2009)
88. Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation (2009)
89. Honorary Doctor of Laws from University of Ulster in recognition of her services to human rights (2009)
90. Ambassador of Conscience Award (2009) from Amnesty International
91. Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Award for Democracy Institute (Pakistan)  (2010)
92. Honorary Individual Membership (2010)
93. Queen of Myanmar’s Democracy and Human Rights (India, 2010)
94. Honorary Degree – Doctor of Law (Canada, 2011)
95. Freedom of Newcastle Upon Tyne (2011)
96. Global Leadership Award (USA, 2011)  
97. The 100 most influential people in the world (USA, 2011)  
98. Eleanor Roosevelt Awards for Global Women’s Rights (Times Magazine, 2011)
99. Wallenberg Medal Award by the University of Michigan (2011)
100. The Patron of World's Children's Prize (2011)  
101. Chatham House Prize (2011)  
102. The Freedom of Brighton and Hove (USA, 2011)
103.  The freedom of the city of Newcastle (2011)
104.  Freedom Award (2011)

Source: www.ncgub.net မွ ဆုအခ်ိဳ ့နွင့္ က်န္ေသာဆုမ်ားကုိ အင္တာနက္မွ ထပ္မံျဖည့္စြက္ထားသည္။

A Bike Ride for Burma's political prisoners

Source: http://www.assknetwork.org/knowledge-centre/report/311-jag-completes-bike-ride-for-burmas-political-prisoners.html

Jag Completes Bike Ride For Burma’s Political Prisoners

 Jag Dojkovski, Fundraising Assistant at Burma Campaign UK, has completed her 2,000km bike ride for political prisoners in Burma, arriving in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Jag was cycling one kilometre for every political prisoner in Burma. She was also seeking to raise £2,000 for campaigning for the release of political prisoners. In the event she smashed her fundraising target, with donations so far totalling £3,330.

“Right now I just feel pure relief, I'm so glad I made it,” said Jag Dojkovski. “It was a real challenge, both physically and mentally, but when I found it hard to keep going, I thought of the amazing people from Burma I have met, who have been through so much to win freedom for their country, and that kept me going." 

Photo ref: http://www.assknetwork.org/knowledge-centre/report/311-jag-completes-bike-ride-for-burmas-political-prisoners.html

Jag cycled through the UK, France, Belgium, Holland (Netherlands) and Germany, finishing in the Czech Republic.  She went through major European cities including London through Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Hannover, Berlin and Prague. She has written a blog and posted pictures of her journey, which is online at: http://burmacampaignuk.blogspot.com/.

“I am completely relieved to be in Prague and so happy I don't have to get on a bike tomorrow", said Jag Dojkovski. “Thank you to all those who sincerely supported me and wished me well over the past 6 weeks. Your kind words and small gestures will always stay with me. Whether it was an email to check that I’m still alive, or a ‘think of your top five songs’ task to distract me, I really do appreciate it.”

Donations can still be made at: http://www.bmycharity.com/burmacycle2000kms2011

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