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4th Geneva Summit: Zoya Phan, Burma

www.genevasummit.org 4th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy - March 13th, 2012 - Geneva Session I The Struggle for Reform BURMA: IS WHAT YOU SEE, WHAT YOU GET? Zoya Phan, Exiled dissident, author of "Little Daughter"

Zoya Phan - Oslo Freedom Forum 2011

In her speech at the 2011 Oslo Freedom Forum, Zoya Phan's central point is the importance of judging a regime based on its actions—not its words. As a Burmese human rights activist, Phan is disheartened that the international community continues to accept the lies of her country's government instead of inquiring into its numerous crimes. The new regime, she says, has not implemented any real change; in fact, it has already allocated 24% of its budget for military spending, most of which will go toward targeting innocent civilians. Although Phan cannot return to Burma legally, she still regularly crosses the border to visit people suffering in her homeland. She knows the true state of affairs there and is pushing foreign powers to "look beyond the mask." To rid Burma of dictatorship and oppression, says Phan, more targeted sanctions and strong diplomacy are needed, but the first step to taking these actions is finally recognizing that the government must be punished for its horrific actions. Follow us @OsloFreedomFrm

Frost over the World - Myanmar - 28 Sep 07

Sir David Frost talks to Zoya Phan, an exile from Mynamar, formerly knowns as Burma, and Razali Ismael, former UN envoy to the country, about the current violence and why the people are agitating for change.

Zoya Phan's story

Zoya Phan is a high profile Burmese refugee and pro-democracy campaigner for Burma Campaign UK. This video was produced by Al Jazeera for their Power & People program. For more videos from Burma Campaign UK click here www.youtube.com For more details on Burma Campaign UK go to www.burmacampaign.org.uk With thanks to Al Jazeera English http

4th Geneva Summit: Zoya Phan, Campaigns Manager, Burma Campaign UK

www.genevasummit.org 4th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy - March 13th, 2012 - Geneva Session I The Struggle for Reform BURMA: IS WHAT YOU SEE, WHAT YOU GET? Zoya Phan, Exiled dissident, author of "Little Daughter" Credit: Human Rights UN

Zoya Phan (Aid Debate) - Oslo Freedom Forum 2011

Zoya Phan, Burmese refugee and human rights activist, opens her remarks on humanitarian with the declaration that she cannot be opposed to foreign assistance, based on her own life experience. Without aid, she would be dead. However, Phan argues that while aid can help deal with the symptoms of a dictatorship, it does not address the ultimate cause of the problem: the dictatorship itself. A major problem now in Burma is the regime's blockade of international aid. But this barrier simply means that the international community must find other ways to help the people of Burma. Unfortunately, finding a real solution seems difficult to foreign governments, and "instead they throw aid money at the problem, so that they can say, 'We are doing something about...Burma." Phan does think aid is important, but only when administered correctly. The money must benefit the people, not fall into the hands of those in power who will use it to perpetuate the status quo.

Burma: Zoya Phan at the Conservative Conference 2006

Zoya Phan,a Burmese Refugee Spoke at the Conservative party conference in 2006, her words were so powerful they asked her back in 2007, view the sequel to that video here www.youtube.com For more videos from Burma Campaign UK click here www.youtube.com For more details on Burma Campaign UK go to www.burmacampaign.org.uk Add Zoya as a friend on Facebook http

Interview with Nant Zoya Phan Part(1)

Zoya Phan, International Coordinator at Burma Campaign UK, speaks at European Parliament

Zoya Phan, a refugee from Burma now living in the UK, speaks at European Parliament on 30th of September, 2010. View her 2006 speech to the conference here www.youtube.com View her 2007 speech to the conference here www.youtube.com For more videos from Burma Campaign UK click here www.youtube.com For more details on Burma Campaign UK go to www.burmacampaign.org.uk Add Zoya as a friend on Facebook http

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Zoya Phan with EU Delegations, Burmese Opposition Leaders and Mahn Shar .

Women's Forum 2009 - Interview Zoya Phan

Les Nouvelles News -- interview exclusive de Zoya Phan, auteur et coordinatrice internationale, Burma Campaign UK

Interview with Nant Zoya Phan Part(2)

Zoya Phan Interview (English)

Zoya Phan, a Karen Refugee from Burma, discusses the importance of education and how she came to be part of the movement for Burma's democracy.

Zoya Phan's Book Launch in English

Zoya Phan's Book Launch yesterday at Bus Boys and Poets was a success. Here is the video in English.

Zoya Phan Interview for Web (Burmese)

Zoya Phan discusses the importance of education and how she came to be part of the movement for Burma's democracy.

Zoya Phan on the Struggle for Freedom in Burma, Part One

Zoya Phan is a 28-year-old Karen refugee from Burma. When she was fourteen years old, her village was attacked by the Burmese army and she was forced to spend two years hiding in the jungle with other Karen refugees. She finally sought sanctuary in a Thai refugee camp, and was eventually able to escape, first to Bangkok, then to the UK, where she now works as International Coordinator for Burma Campaign UK, fighting for human rights, democracy and development in Burma.

Sky News interview Zoya Phan on Aung San Suu Kyi day

On October 24th - the day Aung San Suu Kyi had been imprisoned for 12 years - Zoya Phan (Campaign Officer for Burma Campaign UK) spoke to Sky News. For more videos from Burma Campaign UK click here www.youtube.com For more details on Burma Campaign UK go to www.burmacampaign.org.uk

Hope For Burma with Zoya Phan and Karen Connelly

Karen activist Zoya Phan and author Karen Connelly talk about having hope for Burma's future in response to a question during their presentation at the Ottawa International Writers Festival Fall Edition 2009. Hosted by Kate Heartfield.

Zoya Phan talks about TOTAL (In French/En francais)

Zoya Phan talks about TOTAL's presence in Burma in French. To learn about the TOTAL's work in Burma go to www.burmacampaign.org.uk For more information on campaigns for a free Burma go to: France: www.info-birmanie.org UK www.burmacampaign.org.uk USA uscampaignforburma.org Others: www.burmacampaign.org.uk

Burma: Zoya Phan at the Conservative Party Conference 2007

Zoya Phan, a refugee from Burma now living in the UK, spoke at this years Conservative party conference in 2007. Her words brought the audience to their feet. View her 2006 speech to the conference here www.youtube.com For more videos from Burma Campaign UK click here www.youtube.com For more details on Burma Campaign UK go to www.burmacampaign.org.uk Add Zoya as a friend on Facebook http

Zoya Phan and Karen Connelly on Humanitarian Tourism in Burma

Karen refugee and activist Zoya Phan and author Karen Connelly discuss whether Westerners should travel to Burma and try to help individual people, or boycott tourism because it supports the military dictatorship. From the audience Q&A of a session entitled "The Struggle for Freedom in Burma" at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, October 24th, 2009.

BURMESE ACTIVIST SPEAKS OUT

A leading Burmese activist and author, Zoya Phan, has been speaking about the plight of her country and the continuing house arrest of pro-democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who recently had her 64th birthday in detention.

Zoya Phan - 64forSuu.org

The Aid Debate - Oslo Freedom Forum 2011

In this panel on foreign aid—moderated by Craig Johnstone, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees—participants with diverse backgrounds and views discuss the pros and cons of international assistance. Panelists include humanitarian expert Jan Egeland, who held positions with the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and the United Nations; Philippe Douste-Blazy, former foreign minister of France and chairman of UNITAID; Ghanaian economist George Ayittey; and Burmese refugee and activist Zoya Phan. While the panelists agree that humanitarian aid is helpful in saving lives, they conclude that it is only a superficial solution to the problem. The political roots of conflict must ultimately be addressed in order to create long-term prosperity and progress in a region. The panel tackles the issue of conditionality: should nations offering assistance place certain restrictions on their aid? Ayittey brings attention to the dangers of conditionality now that countries like China are increasingly involved in Africa; they offer aid free of any human rights requirements, hoping only to benefit from natural resources. The discussion also addresses what should be done to help the new democracies of North Africa and the Middle East. On this issue, the panelists are most divided, with Egeland and Douste-Blazy stressing investment and Ayittey in strong disagreement. Ayittey warns of the danger of pouring money into countries that are not yet fully transitioned to democracy. Of course, with ...

Zoya Phan on the Struggle for Freedom in Burma - Part Two

Zoya Phan is a 28-year-old Karen refugee from Burma. When she was fourteen years old, her village was attacked by the Burmese army and she was forced to spend two years hiding in the jungle with other Karen refugees. She finally sought sanctuary in a Thai refugee camp, and was eventually able to escape, first to Bangkok, then to the UK, where she now works as international coordinator for Burma Campaign UK, fighting for human rights, democracy and development in Burma.

Interview_Zoya Phan -[Press Confrence about The Karen People Worldwide's conference]

Zoya Phan interviewed by RFA

မဇုိရာဖန္ႏွင့္ ေတြ ့ဆုံေမးျမန္းခ်က္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံက လူ ့အခြင့္အေရးက်ဴးလြန္မွဳမ်ားကုိ ကုလသမဂၢမွ စုံစမ္းအေရးယူႏုိင္ေရး လွဳပ္ရွားမွဳမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ျဗိတိန္ႏုိင္ငံ အေျခစုိက္ ျမန္မာ့အေရးလွဳပ္ရွားမွဳအဖြဲ ့မွ မဇုိရာဖန္ႏွင့္ ေတြ ့ဆုံေမးျမန္းခန္းကုိ တင္ျပထားပါသည္။

Time to Abandon Myanmar Sanctions? (5 April 2012)

James Reinl hosts a debate for VOR London on Myanmar's election win for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, democratic reform and lifting sanctions on the Southeast Asian nation. He was joined by Zoya Phan, from the rights group Burma Campaign UK, the author Justin Wintle, Jonas Parello-Plesner from the European Council on Foreign Relations and Jim Della-Giacoma, an analyst for the International Crisis Group. (5 April 2012)

Time to Abandon Myanmar Sanctions? (5 April 2012)

VOR's James Reinl hosts a discussion on Myanmar's election win for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, democratic reform and lifting sanctions on the Southeast Asian nation. He was joined by Zoya Phan, from the rights group Burma Campaign UK, the author Justin Wintle, Jonas Parello-Plesner from the European Council on Foreign Relations and Jim Della-Giacoma, an analyst for the International Crisis Group. (5 April 2012)

PODCAST: Zoya Phan chats about her book LITTLE DAUGHTER

A gripping and dramatic true story of a young Burmese girl growing up in the jungle and forced to flee from the approaching Burmese army Get more on Zoya Phan at SimonandSchuster.com: authors.simonandschuster.com