Burma Campaign UK ( BCUK ) founded in 1991 is a London based Non Governmental Organisation ( NGO ) that aims to achieve the ' restoration of human rights and democracy in Burma ( also known as Myanmar ).

BCUK campaigns on behalf of the Burmese pro-democracy movement and is the largest campaigning organisation for Burma in Europe.

This is linked with another aim of BCUK to free all political prisoners.

BCUK is also pushing for a UN arms embargo against the regime.

BCUK is now calling for targeted financial sanctions to be imposed against Burma by both the UK and EU.

BCUK set up a petition to be sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make the release of political prisoners in Burma his personal priority.

The government's repression of individuals and communities residing in eastern Burma has been deemed as ethnic cleansing by BCUK.

BCUK also highlights the issues of forced labour in the region and displacement, as 66, 000 people have been forced to leave their homes during the past 12 months.

Information from numerous sources including the Karen Women ’ s Organisation and Karen Human Rights Group can be found on the BCUK website.

Following a report published in 2005 by Václav Havel and Desmond Tutu that showed that Burma fits the criteria for United Nations Security Council ( UNSC ) intervention BCUK calls on UNSC members to pass a resolution requiring the regime to work with the United Nations in restoring democracy to Burma, and to release Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.

BCUK has campaigned for targeted sanctions against the regime for many years.

BCUK revealed that in 2008 the number of companies with links to Burma had actually increased.

BCUK advocates, among other aims, that the EU issue a ban on the provision of insurance services from member states to companies inside Burma.

Due to pressure from BCUK certain companies have been forced to respond.

BCUK launched an international campaign against the oil company supported by 41 organisations in 18 countries.

The point is that in a system such as Fromm's which recognizes unconscious motivations, and which rests on certain ethical absolutes, empirical data can be used to support whatever proposition the writer is urging at the moment.

Kantorek is a hypocrite, urging the young men he teaches to fight in the name of patriotism, while not voluntarily enlisting himself.

Roman control of Britain finally ended in the early part of the 5th century ; the date usually given as marking the end of Roman Britain is 410, when the Emperor Honorius sent letters to the British, urging them to look to their own defence.

: And he used to repeat that sentence from St. Paul “ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ,” and many other verses of Scripture, urging us thereby to awake from the slumber of the soul by thinking in good time of our last hour.

* 1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U. S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

* 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.

Acknowledging that mass production of palm oil may be disastrous on biodiversity of forests, Greenpeace is actively campaigning against the production, urging the industries and the government to turn to other forms of energy resources.

The practice is documented in America as early as 1721, when Zabdiel Boylston, at the urging of Cotton Mather, successfully inoculated two slaves and his own son.

iv, said, " Elder is identical with bishop ; and before the urging of the devil gave rise to factionalism in religion, so much that it was being said among the people, ' I am of Paul, I of Apollos, I of Cephas ', the churches were governed by a joint council of elders.

The new book, ‘ Who Was Adam ?’, is the silver bullet that puts the evolutionary model to death .” At the Tuskegee University's 79th Annual Scholarship Convocation / Parents ' Recognition Program he made the following statement regarding the subject of evolution while urging his audience to take seriously their role as the higher species on this planet.

Zahi Hawass, the former chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, asked that the stele be repatriated to Egypt, urging in comments to reporters: " If the British want to be remembered, if they want to restore their reputation, they should volunteer to return the Rosetta Stone because it is the icon of our Egyptian identity ".

Richard Hay rallies the faltering squares, urging his men to " think of England " before he is struck by a musket ball and killed, much to the upset of Wellington, a good friend.

* October 11 – Manhattan Project: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented a letter signed by Albert Einstein, urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.

Heidegger, however, has on occasion appeared to take an opposing view, stating for example that " those in the crossing must in the end know what is mistaken by all urging for intelligibility: that every thinking of being, all philosophy, can never be confirmed by ' facts ,' i. e., by beings.

The planet's " Empire TV " features regular gladiatorial games, with the announcer urging viewers at home to vote for their favorites, stating, " This is your program.

* February 27 – The University of Constantinople is founded by emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.

Liu Bang assumed the title " emperor " ( huangdi ) at the urging of his followers and is known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu ( r. 202 – 195 BCE ).

In response, a coalition of 96 scientific and educational organizations wrote a letter to the conference committee, urging that the amendment be stricken from the final bill, arguing that evolution is, in the scientific fields, regarded as fact and that the amendment creates the mis-perception that evolution is not fully accepted in the scientific community, and thus weakens science curricula.

In 2009 Margulis co-authored with seven others a paper stating " Detailed research that correlates life histories of symbiotic spirochetes to changes in the immune system of associated vertebrates is sorely needed " and urging the " reinvestigation of the natural history of mammalian, tick-borne, and venereal transmission of spirochetes in relation to impairment of the human immune system.

Paul the Apostle, in his first epistle to the Corinthians, argued that there is both secular and divine wisdom, urging Christians to pursue the latter.

The pair venture down to Maria's altar, where the robot is urging the workers to rise up and revolt.

With the cardinals asking him to reconsider, it is further reported, he went into solitude, and took the position after deep prayer in the Pauline chapel and the urging of his fellow cardinals.

" There is some suspicion that Aristide's speech was edited to make it sound as if he were advocating " necklacing " when he was actually urging his supporters not to use violence but to use the constitution and voting instead.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

There are a number of other considerations besides this one but it is for the Congress, not the Department of Justice, to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation.

Recent statements by the President and Defense Department spokesmen have, to the contrary, assured us that our lead is very great.

After the recommendation of the Department is forwarded to the appeal board, that is the appropriate place for a registrant to lodge his denial.

Moreover, the hearing officer's report is but intradepartmental, is directed to the Attorney General and, of course, is not the recommendation of the Department.

It is not essentially different from a memorandum of an attorney in the Department of Justice, of which the Attorney General receives many, and to which he may give his approval or rejection.

It is but part of the whole process within the Department that goes into the making of the final recommendation to the appeal board.

It is the concern of the Department of State that the American people are safe and secure -- defense is not a monopoly concern of the Department of Defense.

It is also the concern of the Department of State that our trading relationships with the rest of the world are vigorous, profitable, and active -- this is not just a passing interest or a matter of concern only to the Department of Commerce.

The responsibility for taking the initiative in generating ideas is that of every officer in the Department who has a policy function, regardless of rank.

If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.

In the first place our business is foreign policy, and it is the business of the Presidential leadership and his appointees in the Department to consider the domestic political aspects of a problem.