By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | July 20, 2017 LOIKAW, KAYAH STATE – Ethnic language teachers prefer curriculums based on their own languages to textbooks translated from Burmese, educators in Loikaw, Kayah State told The Irrawaddy. The former quasi-civilian [...]
By Suu Mal / Kantarawaddy Times / Burma News International (BNI) | July 17, 2017 Around three dozen Karenni refugees whose homes were burned down in a July 5 blaze are in need of basic supplies, according to camp [...]
By Ai Saw / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | July 18, 2017 Representatives from a Shan civic group say they briefed Yanghee Lee, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Burma, on Saturday about ongoing human rights violations in [...]
By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | July 18, 2017 Karen civil society organisations met with UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee on Sunday in Karen State where they highlighted human rights issues and other matters relating to the [...]
Joint statement by 68 civil society organisations | July 14, 2017 We, the undersigned civil society organizations, condemn the arrest, detention and prosecution of six people, including three journalists, under the 1908 Unlawful Associations Act in Myanmar. We demand that [...]
Burma Campaign UK | July 13, 2017 Burma Briefing No. 43 In 2002, Burma Campaign UK published the first ‘Dirty List’ of companies directly or indirectly helping the military dictatorship in Burma, or which were linked to human rights [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | July 11, 2017 More than 300 people have lost their homes after a fire destroyed a big neighbourhood in Nai Soi refugee camp in northern Thailand last week. No casualties have been [...]
The Irrawaddy | July 12, 2017 Myanmar has around 1.1 million refugees and internally displaced persons, and a lack of clear policies for their future reinstatement in society carries risks of fresh conflicts, according to a policy briefing by [...]
By S'Phan Shaung / Karen News | July 12, 2017 Over 1,000 signatures have so far been collected on a petition against building a coal-fired power plant in Karen State, according to local activists. Saw Aung Than Htwe from [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundations | July 11, 2017 Recent TB cases raise concern for health consequences of longstanding air pollution levels in Nam Ma coal mining area Recent tuberculosis (TB) cases among villagers living in the Nam Ma coal [...]