OSI Statement on the House Arrest of Burmese Democracy Leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
August 11, 2009
The Open Society Institute strongly condemns the continued house arrest of Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and calls on the Burmese junta to release the Nobel laureate as well as the 2,000 other political prisoners in Burma’s jails.

Burma Project Grantees Rally Global Support Around Aung San Suu Kyi
June 10, 2009
A coalition of OSI grantees has just launched a major new campaign calling for a global arms embargo and international pressure on the Burmese junta to release nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi before the 2010 military-supervised elections.

Reading Burma: A Benefit for Cyclone Relief and Freedom of Expression in Burma/Myanmar
New York City
September 23, 2008
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PEN, the OSI Burma Project, and The New York Review of Books honored Burmese writers whose work has been suppressed by the military regime and to support the victims of the recent cyclone.

Than Shwe’s "Mercy" Is Meaningless
Kyaw Zwa Moe
August 11, 2009
This article from The Irrawaddy, an Open Society Institute grantee, looks at the Burmese junta’s disregard for the law and their claims that Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial was fair.

Disaster: Six Days After Nargis, Burma's Junta Continues to Block International Aid
May 9, 2008
This report on Cyclone Nargis by Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative grantee the Alternative Asean Network on Burma explores the chronology of the worst cyclone disaster to hit Asia since 1991.