Burma
Union of Burma / Myanma Naingngandaw
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)
- International Constitutional Law: Myanmar (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only
- National and State constitutions, draft constitutions, amendments and announcements (texts) (Burmalibrary.org)
- World Factbook: Burma - Government: "3 January 1974; suspended since 18 September 1988; a constitution officially received 92.48% support in a flawed May 2008 referendum that most observers judged fell far short of international standards of free and fair elections; note - a new constitution is to take effect when a parliament is convened following elections planned for 2010"
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 [Catalog Record]
- PARLIAMENT: Pyithu Hluttaw [People's Assembly]
- Laws and Notifications (Myanmar Permanent Mission, Geneva)
- Human Rights of Parliamentarians: 185th Council Session from 2009 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
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Burma (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- AsianLII: Myanmar (Asian Legal Information Institute)
- World Legal Information Institute: Myanmar (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Asia: Myanmar (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- 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)
- Embassy of the Union of Myanmar
- Human Rights in Myanmar (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Burma (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: Myanmar National Library
- 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)
- UCB Libraries GovPubs: Burma / Myanmar (University of Colorado Boulder)
- World Factbook: Burma (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Health Organization: Myanmar
- World Hunger: Myanmar (World Food Programme)
- WWW-VL Asian Studies: Burma (University of Leiden)
- Yahoo: Myanmar (Burma)
Last Updated: 01/29/2012
