ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏အကြောင်း

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ကျွန်တော်တို့၏အကြောင်း

Legal Aid Network is committed to facilitate efforts of grassroots people and activists, civil society organizations, lawyers and legal teams which aim to achieve human rights by establishing a peaceful, free, just and developed society with the underpinnings of genuine principles of the Rule of Law, mainly from legal aspect. Legal Aid Network is an independent organization. It is neither aligned nor is it under the authority of any political organization.

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Work Agenda

1. Raising public awareness of the emergence of just laws and a substantial legal framework, in which individual freedoms and collective rights of ethnic nationality, social strata and community are reflected with the underpinning of international law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international legal doctrines, and minimum rule of law standards.

2. Conducting legal analysis and providing legal suggestions in order for the achievement of federal democratic transition and that of the right to self-determination of the ethnic nationalities and their constituent units focusing on the three core values, “Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Access to Justice”. 

3. Providing legal aid and assistance to selected victims, facilitation of justice defender lawyers and taking actions on those cases, which would affect structural changes of society.

4. Cooperation with organizations and individuals who have common objectives for the emergence of the federal legislature, federal government and federal supreme court– which is independent, impartial, efficient and resource-rich, and federal security forces, by which “Institutional Legitimacy” can be effectively sought to govern the entire federal democratic union of Burma.

5. Facilitation of efforts for the establishment of genuine principles of the rule of law in all proceedings in international and national courts, including those that exercise universal jurisdiction norm, to the extent that those accused of the gravest international crimes should not enjoy impunity.

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Our Board Members

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Mr. Aung Htoo

Human Rights Lawyer and Founder of Legal Aid Network.

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Dr. Venkat Iyer

(Barrister and Visiting Law Professor) Also served as Law Commissioner for Northern Ireland.

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Prof. Chin-Huat Wong

Deputy Head (Strategy), UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, (SDSN) Asia Headquarter.

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Mrs. Pippa Curwen

Human Rights Activist, Burma Relief Centre.

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Founder of Legal Aid Network

Aung Htoo, a human rights lawyer, is the founder of Legal Aid Network. He was a practicing lawyer in Burma from 1977 to 1988. In 1992, along with his lawyer colleagues, he initiated to form a lawyers' organization – the Burma Lawyers' Council (BLC) – with a group of democratic lawyers who have got to liberated area of Burma. The organization formally came to existence on October 20, 1994. As the General Secretary, he led the organization for a number of work programs such as doing legal analysis, research and documentation, conducting human rights and legal trainings, assisting the drafting of a future federal constitution of Burma, providing legal suggestions, legal aid and assistance, doing international legal advocacy, legal campaign for transitional justice, compilations of legal papers and articles, publications, production of television programs, etc. He formally resigned from the BLC on 18 February 2012; afterwards, he founded a new organization – Legal Aid Network – on October 30, 2012.

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