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Uukraine and Myanmar Resistance Movements: Interests, Ideologies and International-Law

The next FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Struggles welcomes two guests: Giada Corsoni from Genocide Watch, and Gregory Stanton, the Genocide Watch founding President, the host is FORSEA's Maung Zarni. Watch live on YouTube: Friday 1 April 2022.

/ March 31, 2022

Welcoming US Government’s Genocide Determination & Urging the Myanmar People’s Fund for the Revolution

From FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Struggles: Padoh Saw Taw Nee of KNU and Ma Ei Thinzar Maung of NUG welcome US Government's Genocide Determination and urges the release of $1 billion Myanmar People's Fund for the Revolution.

/ March 25, 2022

Reassessment of Bilateral and Multilateral relations with the UN Member State of Myanmar Must Take Place

FORSEA's Dr Maung Zarni calls for the reassessment of bilateral and multilateral relations with the UN Member state of Myanmar, in the hands of the genocide perpetrators, and urges the international community of democracies to provide Myanmar resistance with arms and other support. 

/ March 22, 2022

Russia’s War Against Ukraine & Its Global Consequences: Views from Asia

In Southeast Asia, a region of nearly 600-million, neither the citizens nor the states seem to share the kind of popular official outrage over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, or the fear of immediate impact on their lives, which one sees in the West such as in the United States, Canada, the UK and European Union.  

/ March 22, 2022

Global Impact of Russia’s War in Ukraine on Energy, Food Security & the Climate Crisis

FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Struggles: 22 March 2022 – Live on YouTube: The invasions of Iraq by the United States was primarily about oil. The impact of Russia invasion on oil and gas prices – and energy security – are most prominently discussed in the western media. What role has the US oil and gas industry – or more crudely MONEY $€££ – played in this proxy war between Russia...

/ March 20, 2022

Nwe Oo Resistance Against the Russian-Backed Criminal Coup Regime in Myanmar

FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Struggles: 21 March 2022 – Live on YouTube. In Burmese and English languages with guests Padoh Saw Taw Nee, and Daw Ei Thinzar Maung.

/ March 19, 2022

Russia’s War Against Ukraine: A View from Bosnia and Herzegovina

The next FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Struggles is with special guest, Demir Mahmutćehajić, Stolac-based veteran activist with DOSTA! (Enough!) movement and a co-founder of UK Islamic Human Rights Commission.

/ March 17, 2022

ICJ’s Mishandling of The Gambia v Myanmar undermines confidence in the Court

On 21 February, FORSEA hosted an international law roundtable with three Canadian and American legal scholars and practitioners immediately after the court’s completion of the first of the 4-public hearings on Myanmar’s preliminary objections to the court’s jurisdictions and Gambia’s legal standing with the court in The Gambia v Myanmar.

/ February 23, 2022

The Gambia v. Myanmar will decide whether the Genocide Convention is international law

Enforcement is one of the primary attributes that constitute law. If a law cannot be enforced, it can no longer be considered law. It is crucial that the ICJ's judgment in The Gambia v. Myanmar be used to correct the ICJ's erroneous requirement that genocide be the only intent of a State to prove its special intent to commit genocide.

/ February 21, 2022

The ICJ and the Issue of Lawful Representation in The Gambia v Myanmar

Ahead of the scheduled public hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar (the Rohingya genocide case) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada, the Genocide Watch of USA and FORSEA release a comprehensive legal analysis. It focuses on the crucial question of who should lawfully speak for Myanmar before the ICJ as Myanmar's coup resulted in an unprecedented situation with...

/ February 18, 2022