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Burma
Union of Burma / Myanma Naingngandaw
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- International Constitutional Law: Myanmar (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only
- World Factbook: Burma - Government: "3 January 1974 (suspended since 18 September 1988); national convention started on 9 January 1993 to draft a new constitution; progress has since been stalled"
Executive
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Communications, Posts, and Telegraphs
- State Peace and Development Council
Judicial
- World Factbook: Burma - Government: "remnants of the British-era legal system are in place, but there is no guarantee of a fair public trial; the judiciary is not independent of the executive"
Legislative
- OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Pyihtaungsu Hsoshelit Thamata Myanma Naingngantaw Pyantan - LC Call Numbers: LAW Burma 1 (paper); LL (o) 84/10037 (microform)
- PARLIAMENT: Pyithu Hluttaw [People's Assembly]
- Laws and Notifications (Myanmar Permanent Mission, Geneva)
- Human Rights of Parliamentarians: 166th Council Session from 1999 and previous year indexed from Human Rights Cases (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
- NATLEX: Myanmar (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
- Natural Resources Legislation: Myanmar (University of Denver College of Law)
Legal Guides
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: Burma (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- AsianLII: Myanmar (Asian Legal Information Institute)
- JURIST: Myanmar [Burma] (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
- World Legal Information Institute: Myanmar (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Asia: Myanmar (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Portals to the World: Burma (Library of Congress)
- Background Note: Burma (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Burma (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Burma (Myanmar) (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Burma (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Burma (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Governments on the WWW: Myanmar (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Myanmar (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Burma (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: Myanmar National Library - information (IFLA)
- NEWS: BBC World Asia-Pacific; BBC Burmese
- Permanent Mission of the Union of Myanmar to the UN and Other International Organizations, Geneva
- U.S. Embassy, Rangoon (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Burma (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Myanmar (Google); Myanmar (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: Burma (University of Leiden)
Last Updated: 09/29/2008