CHR 2003: Myanmar: Thousands of people are displaced and starving
Resource information
Date of publication
April 2003
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
OBL:47082
Commission on Human Rights
59th Session
Item 10: Economic, social and cultural rights
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It is in the remote parts of Myanmar that the worst abuses of the right to food continue. Within recent weeks, the Asian Legal Resource Centre has spoken with persons travelling in some of these areas. They have told of thousands of people displaced from their lands, some for years, starving in the jungle. One who carried an emaciated child to a Thai town just across the border spoke of the utter shock and disbelief among medical staff at the child?s condition...
