Democracy for Burma

03/07/2024

SYDNEY EVENT - Sean Turnell Address 9th July 2024

In this address Professor Turnell will discuss the circumstances leading to his imprisonment, including the serious economic challenges facing Myanmar when he took up his consultant position in 2016 and his courageous efforts with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's government to address the situation until she and her government were overthrown and she too was imprisoned. He will describe how he not only survived his lengthy incarceration, but left with his sense of humour intact and his spirit unbroken.

He will assess the current situation in Myanmar and what the future might hold.

For 650 days Sean Turnell - an Australian economist and former special economic consultant to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi - was jailed in Myanmar on the trumped-up charge of being a spy. In his recently-published book An Unlikely Prisoner he recounts how a cheerful professor of economics, whose idea of an uncomfortable confrontation was having to tell a student that their essay was 'not really that good', ended up for nearly three years in one of the most notorious prisons in South-East Asia.

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04/06/2024

Position Vacancy: Program Coordinator for Myanmar Crisis Response

ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) was founded in June 2013 with the objective of promoting democracy and human rights across Southeast Asia.

APHR is looking to hire a Program Coordinator for Myanmar Crisis Response to support the organization’s response to major human rights crises and emergencies across the ASEAN region. The Program Coordinator for Myanmar and Crisis Response will identify advocacy opportunities and implement reactive strategies to empower parliamentarians to respond effectively and in a timely manner to human rights crises and situations of conflict with particular focus on Myanmar. The Program Coordinator for Myanmar and Crisis Response will also work on refugees and migrant issues in the region.

APHR is a regional network of current and former parliamentarians who use their unique
position to advance human rights and democracy in Southeast Asia. We seek to help create a
region where people can express themselves without fear, live free from all forms of
discrimination and violence, and where development takes place with human rights at the
forefront.

Representing a unique and strategically focused addition to the regional and international
human rights framework, APHR is supported by a young and dynamic team of human rights
professionals that make up the Secretariat, with staff currently based across the region. As part
of a member-driven organization, the Secretariat also works directly with legislators and
political leaders in Southeast Asia and beyond to craft strategies and respond effectively to
developing situations.

Contract duration: 12 months (with 3 months’ probation)
Location: Remote, preferably in Thailand.
Line Management: The Program Coordinator for Myanmar and Crisis Response will report directly to the Executive Director.
Deadline for applications: Saturday, 15 June 2024.

Send your CV and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject heading “Application: Program Coordinator for Myanmar and Crisis Response”

APHR is looking to hire a Program Coordinator for Myanmar Crisis Response to support the organization's response to major human rights crises and emergencies across the ASEAN region