Democracy and Human Rights Party

Democracy and Human Rights Party
ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးပါတီ
Chairman Kyaw Min
Secretary-General Kyaw Soe Aung
Founded 1989 (1989)
12 March 2013 (2013-03-12)[1](re-registered)
Headquarters Botahtaung Township, Yangon Region, Myanmar
Colours Blue, green, red
Seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw
0 / 224
Seats in the Pyithu Hluttaw
0 / 440
Politics of Myanmar
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The Democracy and Human Rights Party (Burmese: ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးပါတီ, DHRP) is a political party in Myanmar representing the Rohingya of northern Rakhine State.

History

Established in 1989, the party was originally known as the National Democratic Party for Human Rights[2] and contested eight seats in the 1990 general elections.[3] It received 1% of the vote, winning four seats.[4]

After being banned by the military government, it continued to operate in exile, and the National Democratic Party for Human Rights (exile) was formed in New York City in 2003.[5] The party registered as Democracy and Human Rights Party to contest the 2015 general elections,[1] but only three of its eighteen candidates were allowed to stand, none of whom were Rohingyas.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Democracy and Human Rights Party". Union Election Commission. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  2. Political Prisoner Profile: U Kyaw Hla Aung Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)
  3. Robert H Taylor (2009) The State in Myanmar, NUS Press
  4. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p615 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
  5. About us NDPHR
  6. Rohingya ‘excluded’ from Myanmar election contest Mizzima, 4 November 2015
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