EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
"Myanmar’s agricultural sector has for long suffered due to multiplicity of laws and regulations, deficient and degraded infrastructure, poor policies and planning, a chronic lack of credit, and an absence of tenure security for cultivators. These woes negate Myanmar’s bountiful natural endowments and immense agricultural potential, pushing its rural populace towards dire poverty.

Table of Contents:
PREAMBLE...
CHAPTER 1: PRELIMINARY -
Article 1.1 Basic Principle of Kawthoolei Land Policy...
Article 1.2 Objectives....
Article 1.3 Nature and scope...Definitions...
CHAPTER 2: GENERAL POLICY MATTERS -
Article 2.1 Basic principles...
Article 2.2 Principles of implementation....
Article 2.3 Rights and responsibilities...
Article 2.4 Policy, legal and organizational frameworks related to
land governance...
CHAPTER 3: RECOGNITION AND ALLOCATION OF TENURE RIGHTS
AND DUTIES:

...Through research on Myanmar, we argue that in authoritarian settings where legality has drastically declined, the starting point for cause lawyering lies in advocacy for law itself, in advocating for the regular application of law’s rules.

Adopted 20 March 2012, published 1 April 2012....."The objectives of this Law are as follows:
(a) to enable to implement the Myanmar National Environmental Policy;

Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land Managemen

The State Law and Order Restoration Council -
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law -
(The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No.1/93) -
The 5th Waxing Day of Tabodwe, 1354 ME. -
27th January, 1993

Ward and Village Administration Amending

Documents and analyses on land tenure in Burma/Myanmar.....
"1.Reconcile legality and legitimacy through clear legal recognition of existing
acknowledged rights, whatever their origin (customary or statutory) or nature
(individual or collective, temporary or permanent).
2.Initiate widespread debate on the choice of society that the land policies will
serve (and target), the opportunities for formalisation, how it will be implemented
and its possible alternatives.
3.Build consensus between all the actors concerned (central and local

The report, Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Thai Policy toward Burmese Refugees, documents Thailand’s repression of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers from Burma. "The Thai government is arresting and intimidating Burmese political activists living in Bangkok and along the Thai-Burmese border, harassing Burmese human rights and humanitarian groups, and deporting Burmese refugees, asylum seekers and others with a genuine fear of persecution in Burma..."

1. Introduction...

Preliminary: 1. Objectives... 2. Nature and scope..... General matters: 3. Guiding principles of responsible tenure governance... 3A General principles... 3B Principles of implementation... 4. Rights and responsibilities related to tenure... 5. Policy, legal and organizational frameworks related to tenure... 6. Delivery of services..... Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties: 7. Safeguards... 8. Public land, fisheries and forests... 9. Indigenous peoples and other communities with customary tenure systems... 10. Informal tenure.....

1955 Government Housing