Stars urge U.N.'s Ban to help Myanmar's Suu Kyi
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More than 25 celebrities including actors Jim Carrey, Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams on Thursday urged the United Nations to help win freedom for Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council told Myanmar on Friday to prosecute those who committed abuses during a crackdown on peaceful monk-led protests and free Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.
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Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with a representative of the ruling junta for more than an hour on Thursday, state television said.
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Billionaire US philanthropist George Soros has appealed for Indonesia to support a UN resolution against the military junta in Myanmar.
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The United States on Friday   asked the U.N. Security Council to deal with Myanmar, whose   junta government has jailed opponents, persecuted minorities   and sent refugees fleeing into neighboring states.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Myanmar's military government on Monday to hold substantive talks with detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on a constitutional referendum.
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August 18, 2004UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday called on Burma&#39;s military government to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and to speed up political reform. He also called on the region&#39;s ...
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Myanmar's military rulers will keep  opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi isolated under house arrest  until at least Nov. 27 next year, her National League for  Democracy (NLD) said on Wednesday.
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Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been told by police she is being held under house arrest under a law which allows for such detention for up to a year, an opposition spokesman says.
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Hollywood star and humanitarian activist Angelina Jolie appealed on Thursday for more international help for the millions of Iraqis displaced internally and abroad, U.N. officials said.
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The Bush administration urged the Myanmar government on Thursday to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, saying a failure to do so would represent "unacceptable backtracking."
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The United States has cranked up the pressure on Myanmar's rulers by introducing a UN Security Council draft resolution urging them to release all political prisoners and end the use of rape as an instrument of war.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Myanmar&#39;s authorities on Tuesday to release opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners as part of the country&#39;s earlier announced amnesty plan.
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France called on China and Southeast Asia on Monday to put more pressure on Myanmar's ruling junta to start proper talks about political reform with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. "I have come to South East Asia to tell Burma's neighbours that no progress can be made in Burma without their intervention and assistance," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner wrote in editorials in several regional newspapers.
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VIENTIANE, Laos Thailand told Myanmar on Tuesday that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that the house arrest of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been
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Hollywood star and humanitarian  activist Angelina Jolie appealed on Thursday for more  international help for the millions of Iraqis displaced  internally and abroad, U.N. officials said.
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Myanmar&#039;s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who turns 61 on Monday, will spend another birthday alone, under house arrest imposed by a junta that has ignored an international outcry for her freedom.