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Statement by the Spokesperson on the prosecution of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar
Bruxelles, 09/07/2018 -

The court decision today to press charges against Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo under the Official Secrets Act of 1923 threatens fundamental freedoms, a free media and the public’s right to information in Myanmar.

Since the arrest of the journalists on 12 December 2017 for their reporting on the situation in Rakhine State, EU diplomats have observed every court hearing and the EU has continuously raised the matter with the Myanmar government.

Media freedom and pluralism are essential pillars of any democracy. Journalists and media workers must be able to work in an environment free from fear of intimidation, harassment, undue arrest and prosecution, and require protection in order to promote transparency and accountability in any society.

The European Union expects the charges against the two journalists prosecuted for merely exercising their rights to freedom of expression and carrying out their jobs to be dropped and for them to be released immediately so they can be reunited with their families and resume their vital work.

Statement by the Spokesperson on the prosecution of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar - EEAS - European External Action Service - European Commission Statement by the Spokesperson on the prosecution of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar - European Union External Action

BRITISH EMBASSY STATEMENT ON COURT DECISION TO PROCEED WITH CHARGES AGAINST REUTERS JOURNALISTS

British Embassy officials attended the court hearing of two Reuters journalists on 9 July 2018. UK Minister of State for Asia Mark Field and the Pacific made the following statement:
“Very disappointed by Burma court decision today to press charges against Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for reporting on Rakhine atrocities. Chilling effect on media freedom hurts Burma’s democratic transition. The UK continues to call for their immediate release.”

​ ၿဗိတိသ်ွသံရံုးမွတာဝန္​႐ွိသူမ်ားသည္​ ႐ိုက္​တာသတင္းဌာနမွ ​သတင္​း​ေထာက္​ႏွစ္​ဦးအား ဇြန္လိႈင္လ ၉ ရက္ေန႔က စစ္​​ေဆးျကားနာမႈအား တက္​​ေရာက္​​ခဲ့ပါသည္​။ အာရွေဒသဆိုင္ရာ ယူေက ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ဒုတိယ၀န္ႀကီး မာ့ခ္ဖီးလ္ ကလည္​း ​ေအာက္​​ေဖာ္​ျပပါ​ေၾကညာခ်က္​ကို ထုတ္​ျပန္​ခဲ့ပါသည္​။
"ရခုိင္အေရးကိစၥသတင္းယူခဲ့ေသာ ရိုက္တာသတင္းေထာက္ႏွစ္ဦးျဖစ္သည့္ ၀လံုးႏွင့္ ေက်ာ္စိုးဦးတုိ႔အားတရားစြဲဆုိရန္ တရားရုံးမွ ယေန႔ဆံုးျဖတ္လိုက္ျခင္းအေပၚ အလြန္စိတ္ပ်က္မိပါသည္။ စာနယ္ဇင္းလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္အေပၚဖိႏႇိပ္​​တားျမစ္ျခင္းသည္ ျမန္မာနိူင္ငံ၏ ဒီမိုကေရစီကူးေျပာင္းေရးကို ထိခိုက္နစ္နာေစပါသည္။ အဆိုပါ သတင္းေထာက္နွစ္ဦး အျမန္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ မိမိတို႔အ​ေနျဖင္​့ ဆက္လက္တုိက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါသည္။"

Photo credit to Reuters

ယ​ေန႔မနက္​တြင္​ ၿဗိတိသ်ွသံရံုးမွတာဝန္​႐ွိသူမ်ားသည္​ ႐ိုက္​တာသတင္းဌာနမွ ​သတင္​း​ေထာက္​ႏွစ္​ဦးအား စစ္​​ေဆးျကားနာမႈအား တက္​​ေရာက္​​ခဲ့ပါသည္​။ အာရွေဒသဆိုင္ရာ ယူေက ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ဒုတိယ၀န္ႀကီး မာ့ခ္ဖီးလ္ ကလည္​း ​ေအာက္​​ေဖာ္​ျပပါ​ေၾကညာခ်က္​ကို ထုတ္​ျပန္​ခဲ့ပါသည္​။
"ရခုိင္အေရးကိစၥသတင္းယူခဲ့ေသာ ရိုက္တာသတင္းေထာက္ႏွစ္ဦးျဖစ္သည့္ ၀လံုးႏွင့္ ေက်ာ္စိုးဦးတုိ႔အားတရားစြဲဆုိရန္ တရားရုံးမွ ယေန႔ဆံုးျဖတ္လိုက္ျခင္းအေပၚ အလြန္စိတ္ပ်က္မိပါသည္။ စာနယ္ဇင္းလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္အေပၚဖိႏႇိပ္​​တားျမစ္ျခင္းသည္ ျမန္မာနိူင္ငံ၏ ဒီမိုကေရစီကူးေျပာင္းေရးကို ထိခိုက္နစ္နာေစပါသည္။ အဆိုပါ သတင္းေထာက္နွစ္ဦး အျမန္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ မိမိတို႔အ​ေနျဖင္​့ ဆက္လက္တုိက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါသည္။"

This morning British Embassy officials attended the court hearing of two Reuters journalists. UK Minister of State for Asia Mark Field and the Pacific made the following statement:
“Very disappointed by Burma court decision today to press charges against Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for reporting on Rakhine atrocities. Chilling effect on media freedom hurts Burma’s democratic transition. The UK continues to call for their immediate release.”

Photo credit to Reuters

The Statement of the Embassy of Sweden Section Office Yangon over the court's decision to charge Reuters’ journalists under the Official Secrets Act

The Embassy of Sweden Section Office Yangon would like to express our gravest concern and alarm over the decision today to charge Reuters’ journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo under the Official Secrets Act. As we stated already on the 100th day of their detention, we believe they have done nothing wrong and that the charges against them should have been dropped. Now on their 210th day in detention, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo face a trial and charge that could carry the sentence of fourteen years imprisonment.

The work of independent media is extremely important in order to inform the public about what occurred in Rakhine State in the aftermath of the attacks on 25 August last year. The investigative journalism that Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo represents a crucial service to the society and should be protected. For Myanmar to continue on its path towards democratization, it is clear that more work needs to be done to strengthen and ensure freedom of the press and of the media. The decision today to charge Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo under the Official Secrets Act of 1923 underscores the need for Myanmar to amend or abolish outdated laws and regulations that threaten these fundamental freedoms.

The Embassy of Sweden Section Office Yangon would like to express our gravest concern and alarm over the decision today to charge Reuters’ journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo under the Official Secrets Act. As we stated already on the 100th day of their detention, we believe they have done nothing wrong and that the charges against them should have been dropped. Now on their 210th day in detention, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo face a trial and charge that could carry the sentence of fourteen years imprisonment.

The work of independent media is extremely important in order to inform the public about what occurred in Rakhine State in the aftermath of the attacks on 25 August last year. The investigative journalism that Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo represents a crucial service to the society and should be protected. For Myanmar to continue on its path towards democratization, it is clear that more work needs to be done to strengthen and ensure freedom of the press and of the media. The decision today to charge Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo under the Official Secrets Act of 1923 underscores the need for Myanmar to amend or abolish outdated laws and regulations that threaten these fundamental freedoms.

ရုိက္တာသတင္းေထာက္မ်ားကုိ ဆက္လက္တရားစြဲဆုိရန္ တရားရုံး၏ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ အေမရိကန္သံရုံး၏ေၾကညာခ်က္

၂၀၁၈၊ ဇူလုိင္ ၉

ရိုက္တာသတင္းေထာက္မ်ား ျဖစ္ၾကေသာ ကုိဝလုံးႏွင့္ ကုိေက်ာ္စုိးဦးတုိ႔အား ႏုိင္္ငံေတာ္လွ်ိဳ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္အက္ဥပေဒ ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္ျဖင့္ ဆက္လက္တရားစြဲဆုိရန္ တရားရုံးကယေန႔ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ခ်မွတ္လုိက္သည့္အေပၚ မိမိတုိ႔မ်ားစြာစိတ္ပ်က္မိပါသည္။ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ား ၎တုိ႔အလုပ္ ၎တုိ႔ျပန္လည္လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္ရန္ႏွင့္ မိသားစုဝင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ဆုံစည္းႏုိင္ရန္ ျမန္မာအာဏာပုိင္မ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ခြင့္ျပဳေပးသင့္ပါသည္။ ယေန႔ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္သည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္း သတင္းမီဒီယာလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ႏွင့္ တရားဥပေဒစုိးမုိးေရးအတြက္ အေႏွာက္အယွက္တစ္ရပ္တစ္ရပ္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

U.S. EMBASSY STATEMENT ON COURT DECISION TO PROCEED WITH CHARGES AGAINST REUTERS JOURNALISTS

July 9, 2018

We are deeply disappointed by today's court decision to proceed with charges against journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for alleged violation of the Official Secrets Act. ‎The Myanmar authorities should allow the journalists to return to their jobs and families. Today's decision is a setback for press freedom and the rule of law in Myanmar.

ရုိက္တာသတင္းေထာက္မ်ားကုိ ဆက္လက္တရားစြဲဆုိရန္ တရားရုံး၏ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ အေမရိကန္သံရုံး၏ေၾကညာခ်က္

၂၀၁၈၊ ဇူလုိင္ ၉

ရိုက္တာသတင္းေထာက္မ်ား ျဖစ္ၾကေသာ ကုိဝလုံးႏွင့္ ကုိေက်ာ္စုိးဦးတုိ႔အား ႏုိင္္ငံေတာ္လွ်ိဳ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္အက္ဥပေဒ ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္ျဖင့္ ဆက္လက္တရားစြဲဆုိရန္ တရားရုံးကယေန႔ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ခ်မွတ္လုိက္သည့္အေပၚ မိမိတုိ႔မ်ားစြာစိတ္ပ်က္မိပါသည္။ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ား ၎တုိ႔အလုပ္ ၎တုိ႔ျပန္လည္လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္ရန္ႏွင့္ မိသားစုဝင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ဆုံစည္းႏုိင္ရန္ ျမန္မာအာဏာပုိင္မ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ခြင့္ျပဳေပးသင့္ပါသည္။ ယေန႔ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္သည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္း သတင္းမီဒီယာလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ႏွင့္ တရားဥပေဒစုိးမုိးေရးအတြက္ အေႏွာက္အယွက္တစ္ရပ္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

U.S. EMBASSY STATEMENT ON COURT DECISION TO PROCEED WITH CHARGES AGAINST REUTERS JOURNALISTS

July 9, 2018

We are deeply disappointed by today's court decision to proceed with charges against journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for alleged violation of the Official Secrets Act. ‎The Myanmar authorities should allow the journalists to return to their jobs and families. Today's decision is a setback for press freedom and the rule of law in Myanmar.

America's Independence Day Celebrated in Nay Pyi Taw

ဇူလုိင္လ ၄ ရက္ေန႔မွာ က်ေရာက္တဲ့ အေမရိကန္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႔ အတြက္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ အခမ္းအနားကုိ အေမရိကန္သံရုံးက ေနျပည္ေတာ္ မွာ ဇြန္လ ၂၈ ရက္ေန႔မွာ က်င္းပခဲ့ပါတယ္။
The U.S. Embassy celebrated an event on June 28 in Nay Pyi Taw for America’s Independence Day, the fourth of July.

“ကမၻာတစ္လႊား လြတ္လပ္မႈနဲ႔ လူ႔ဂုဏ္သိကၡာအေရးအတြက္ ေရွ႕တန္းကဦးေဆာင္ေနၾကသူေတြကုိ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႔က ကာလရွည္ၾကာ ပံ့ပိုးကူညီလက္တြဲ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ အဲဒီလုိ ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈေတြလုပ္ေနတယ္ဆုိတာကို ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံထက္ ပိုၿပီး မွန္ကန္စြာလက္ေတြ႔ျပႏုိင္တဲ့ေနရာမရွိပါဘူး။ ” လုိ႔ ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွာ က်င္းပတဲ့ အေမရိကန္လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႔ အခမ္းအနားမွာ ဧည့္သည္ေတာ္ေတြကုိ ႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္အမွာစကားေျပာၾကားရာမွာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး မာစီရယ္လ္က ေျပာၾကား သြားပါတယ္။ ဒီအခမ္းအနားကုိ ဂုဏ္ထူးေဆာင္ ဧည့္သည္ေတာ္အေနနဲ႔ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရး ဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ျပည္ေထာင္စုဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္တင္ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
“We have long worked to support those around the world who were championing the cause of liberty and human dignity. Nowhere has that been more true than here in Myanmar,” Ambassador Marciel said as he welcomed guests to the U.S. Independence Day celebration in Nay Pyi Taw that evening. Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin was also present as the Guest of Honor.

PRLP ျမန္မာ အဖြဲ႔အေနျဖင့္ CEELI တကၠသုိလ္ႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းကာ ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႔၏ ျမန္မာတရားသူၾကီးမ်ား အတြက္ ယခု အစီအစဥ္ကုိ ျပီးစီးေအာင္ျမင္ေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရတဲ့ အတြက္ ၀မ္းေျမာက္ ဂုဏ္ယူမိေၾကာင္း ထပ္မံေျပာၾကားလုိပါတယ္။ CEELI တကၠသုိလ္နဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္တဲ့ ယခုအစီအစဥ္ရဲ႕ ေနာက္ဆုံးသင္တန္း တစ္ရပ္ကုိ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕တြင္ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ က်င္းပျပီးစီးခဲ့ျပီး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Thanks again to the CEELI Institute for your collaborations with PRLP Myanmar in this great program for our Myanmar Judges. The final session of the “Judging in a Democratic Society” program has finished in Yangon.

The final session of the “Judging in a Democratic Society” program finished in Yangon yesterday. It was an exceptional experience and the first CEELI program with Burmese judges. Our long-standing work with independent regional Burmese lawyers is now continuing in Mawlamyine, and we hope to be able to contribute to bridging the gaps between these two worlds in this unique country.

PRLP ျမန္မာ အဖြဲ႕အေနျဖင့္ ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႔ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာ တရားသူၾကီးမ်ားအတြက္ ယခု အစီအစဥ္ကုိ ပူူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ရလုိ႔ ၀မ္းေျမာက္ ဂုဏ္ယူမိပါတယ္။ CEELI တကၠသုိလ္အား လည္း ၎တုိ႔၏ ပ့ံပုိးမႈမ်ားအတြက္ ေက်းဇူး တင္ေၾကာင္း လည္း ေျပာၾကားလုိပါတယ္။
“ ဒီမုိကေရစီ လူမႈအဖြဲ႕အစည္းတစ္ရပ္အတြင္း တရားစီရင္ျခင္း” ေခါင္းစဥ္ ျဖင့္ သင္တန္းေနာက္တစ္ခုကုိ မႏၱေလးျမိဳ႕တြင္လည္း က်င္းပျပီးစီးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ပါ၀င္တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ တဲ့ ျမန္မာ တရားသူၾကီးမ်ား၊ ပံ႔ပုိး ကူညီ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးတဲ့ တရားသူၾကီးမ်ား ျဖစ္တဲ့ Mary Davis, Joyce Wheeler ႏွင့္ Domagoj Frntic အပါအ၀င္ တရားဥပေဒ စုိးမုိးမႈ ျမွင့္တင္ေရး စီမံကိန္း (PRLP) မွ ၀န္ထမ္မ်ား အားလုံးကုိလည္း အစီအစဥ္ ျဖစ္ေျမာက္ေအာင္ျမင္မႈအတြက္ ေက်းဇူးတင္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားလုိပါတယ္။" ဟုလည္း the CEELI Institute က ေျပာၾကားသည္။

We, Prlp Myanmar, are glad to collaborate in this great program for our Myanmar Judges. Thanks to CEELI for their support.
The CEELI Institute: Another “Judging in a Democratic Society” session completed in Mandalay! Thanks to all the Burmese judges for participating, to facilitators - Judges Mary Davis, Joyce Wheeler and Domagoj Frntic, and to the colleagues from the Promoting the Rule of Law Project for making this possible!

Another “Judging in a Democratic Society” session completed in Mandalay! Thanks to all the Burmese judges for participating, to facilitators - Judges Mary Davis, Joyce Wheeler and Domagoj Frntic, and to the colleagues from the Promoting the Rule of Law Project for making this possible!

USAID PRLP စီမံကိန္းႏွင့္ CEELI Institute တုိ႔၏ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈကုိ ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႔အေနျဖင့္ အားရ ေက်နပ္မိပါသည္။ CEELI Institute ၏ တရားေရးဆုိင္ရာ သင္တန္းပုိ႔ခ်ေရး အဖြဲ႕သည္ “ဒီမုိ ကေရစီ လူမႈ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း တစ္ရပ္အတြင္း တရားစီရင္ျခင္း” ေခါင္းစဥ္ျဖင့္ သုံးရက္ၾကာ သင္တန္း သုံးခုကုိ တစ္ခုလွ်င္ ခရုိင္တရားသူၾကီး ၃၅ ဦး စီအား ပုိ႔ခ်ေပးလ်က္ ရိွေနပါသည္။ ပထမ သင္တန္းကုိ ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ ေမလ ၂၂ မွ ၂၄ ရက္ေန႔အထိလည္းေကာင္း၊ ဒုတိယ သင္တန္းကုိ ေမလ ၂၆ မွ ၂၈ ရက္ေန႔ အထိ မႏၱေလးတြင္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ တတိယ သင္တန္းကုိ ေမလ ၃၀ ရက္ေန႔မွ ဇြန္လ ၁ ရက္ေန႔အထိ ရန္ကုန္တြင္ လည္းေကာင္း ပုိ႔ခ်ေပးလ်က္ ရိွေနပါသည္။

We are glad to have this collaboration between Prlp Usaid and the CEELI Institute. The CEELI judicial training team has been conducting three three-day training sessions, “Judging in a Democratic Society,” for approximately 35 district judges in each session. The first session was conducted on May 22-24 in Nay Pyi Taw with the second session on May 26-28 in Mandalay, followed by the final session in Yangon from May 30 to June 1.

We have just finished our “Judging in a Democratic Society” program, our historically first program for Burmese judges in the capital Nay Pyi Taw. Very impressive group!

PRLP and A2JI have been conducting several citizen engagement anti-corruption training in collaboration with CSOs and CBOs in different locations, including Magway, Monywa, Kawkareik of Kayin State and Hlaing Thar Yar of Yangon.

The following pictures are with Phoenix Association in Hlaing Thar Yar township on May 24th.

PRLP's Grant Team conducting grant close-out site visit to Phoenix Yangon on May 15.

Effective Prosecution for Today’s Law Officer
ဥပေဒ အရာရိွမ်ားအတြက္ လုပ္ငန္းကၽြမ္းက်င္မႈ ျမွင့္တင္ေရး သင္တန္းပုိ႔ခ်
တရားဥပေဒ စုိးမုိးမႈ ျမွင့္တင္ေရး စီမံကိန္း PRLP သည္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေရွ႕ေနခ်ဳပ္ရုံးႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းကာ ဥပေဒ အရာရိွမ်ားအတြက္ လုပ္ငန္း ကၽြမ္းက်င္မႈ ျမွင့္တင္ေရး “Effective Prosecution Trainings for Today’s Law Officer” သင္တန္းကုိ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရိွ သဂၤဟ ဟုိတယ္တြင္ ေမလ ၁၁-၁၂ ရက္ ႏွင့္ ေမလ ၁၄-၁၅ ရက္ေန႔မ်ားတြင္ အသီးသီးက်င္းပခဲ့သည္။ သင္တန္းသုိ႔ မြန္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာ္လျမိဳင္ ျမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ဥပေဒ အရာရိွမ်ား၊ မႏၱေလးတုိင္း ခ်မ္းေအးသာဇံ ျမိဳ႕နယ္ႏွင့္ ျပင္ဦးလြင္ ခရုိင္တုိ႔မွ ဥပေဒ အရာရိွမ်ားႏွင့္ မႏၱေလး တုိင္းႏွင့္ မြန္ျပည္နယ္ တုိ႔မွ တုိင္းေဒသၾကီး ဥပေဒ အရာရိွႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္ ဥပေဒအရာရိွတုိ႔ အပါအ၀င္ စုစုေပါင္း ၃၀ ဦး တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ႏွစ္သုတ္ခြဲ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ ႏွစ္ရက္ၾကာ သင္တန္းကုိ PRLP မွ Senior Prosecution and Justice Sector Advisor ျဖစ္သူ မစၥတာ Robert L. Dean က ဦးေဆာင္ ေဆြး ေႏြး ပုိ႔ခ်ခဲ့သည္။ သင္တန္း ပုိ႔ခ်ရျခင္း ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မွာ အထက္ေဖာ္ျပပါ နယ္ေျမမ်ားတြင္ ေရွ႕ေျပး တရားရုံး အစီအစဥ္အရ မူခင္း စီမံ ခန္႔ခြဲမႈ စနစ္ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရာတြင္ တရား စီရင္ ဆုံးျဖတ္ေရးအတြက္ အဓိက အခန္းက႑မွ ပါ၀င္ေသာ ဥပေဒ အရာရိွၾကီးမ်ား၊ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕၊ အမႈသည္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ သက္ေသမ်ား အၾကား ဆက္ဆံေရး ပုိမုိ အဆင္ေျပ ေခ်ာေမြ႕ေစေရး၊ ဥပေဒ အရာရိွၾကီးမ်ား၏ လုပ္ငန္း ကၽြမ္းက်င္မႈ ျမွင့္တင္ေရး ႏွင့္ စည္းစနစ္ ပုိမုိ ေကာင္းမြန္ေစေရးတုိ႔ အတြက္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

PRLP conducted training in collaboration with the Union Attorney General’s Office, entitled Effective Prosecution Trainings for Today’s Law Officer, at the Thingaha Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw on May 11-12 and May 14-15, respectively.
Thirty participants in the two sessions included Law Officers and Court Office Staff from Mawlamyaing township of Mon region, Chan Aye Thar Zan township and Pyin Oo Lwin District of Mandalay region, and regional law officers from Mandalay and Mon regions. The two-day program was led by Robert L. Dean, PRLP Senior Prosecution and Justice Sector Advisor.
The objectives of the training were to promote relationships among key actors including Law Officers, Police and victim or witnesses, to raise the professionalism of law officers, and to develop protocols for implementing the Case Management System of the Pilot Court Program in those areas.

One of the USAID PRLP's grantees, Phoenix Association, conducted a coordination meeting with stakeholders and Civil Society Organizations for approximately 50 participants in Mandalay on May 5.