About This Initiative
The Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative focuses on open society issues throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Burma but also in other countries where essential freedoms are threatened. more

Shwe Gas Pipeline Project: Implications for India and Burma
New Delhi
April 17, 2006
OSI grantee the Shwe Gas Pipeline Campaign Committee cohosts a seminar to examine the impact of energy projects on communities and the imperative of the international politics of energy.  more

OSI Forum: Life on the Thai-Burma Border—Resistance, Refugees, and Resettlement
OSI - New York
March 3, 2006
Audio
OSI hosted a forum with Outer Voices, an independent media group that has created a radio documentary on women leaders among the Karen refugees.  more

Eight Seconds of Silence: The Death of Democracy Activists Behind Bars
May 2006
This report by an OSI grantee records all known cases of political prisoners who have died in custody in Burma since 1988.  more

Responding to AIDS, TB, Malaria and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Burma
March 2006
Public health policies in Burma allow AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and bird flu to proliferate with dangerous implications for rest of Southeast Asia, according to this OSI-supported report.  more

OSI Grantee Helps Launch Website to Campaign for UN Resolution on Burma
June 19, 2006
Along with an international network of human rights activists, ALTSEAN, an OSI grantee, has launched a website to broaden the campaign for a UN Security Council resolution on Burma. more