> Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL (includes LC Portals: Burma)

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW RESOURCE

• 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 GOVERNMENT BRANCH

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Ministry of Communications, Posts, and Telegraphs
• State Peace and Development Council

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• 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 Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• Natural Resources Legislation: Myanmar (University of Denver College of Law)

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• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Burma (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• JURIST: Myanmar [Burma] (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• World Law Index: Myanmar (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Asia: Myanmar (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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• Portals to the World: Burma ()
• Background Notes: 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)