Statement on the Detention of the Journalists who Came to Report on the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking Ceremony
Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) | July 10, 2017 Date – June, 27th, 2017 The Palaung State Liberation Front PSLF/TNLA condemns the Myanmar military for detaining journalists who were performing their responsibility of conducting media [...]
Statement of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) Second Congress June 29, 2017
United Nations Federal Council (Union of Burma) | June 29, 2017 The Second Congress of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) was held from June 20 to 29 in Chiangmai, Thailand. In holding the first [...]
61 Rights Groups Urge Govt to Repeal Section 66(d)
By Shin Wang Chau / Myanmar Times | July 03, 2017 A joint statement issued by 61 national and international human right organisations urge the Myanmar government and parliament to repeal Section 66(d) of the [...]
Burma/Myanmar: Repeal Section 66(d) of the 2013 Telecommunications Law
Joint statement by 61 Burma/Myanmar and international human rights organizations | June 30, 2017 Concerned by reports that the Burma/Myanmar authorities will retain the criminal defamation provision of Section 66(d) during a review of the [...]
Objection Against the NLD’s Legal Comment on the Case of the Three Journalists, Illegally Detained by the Myanmar Armed Forces
Legal Aid Network (LAN) | June 29, 2017 The Myanmar Armed Forces illegally detained the journalists – the Irrawaddy’s Nai Lawi Weng and DVB’s U Aye Nai and U Pyae Phone Aung – on June [...]
Min Aung Hlaing: Free Detained Journalists Now!
Burma Campaign UK (BCUK)| June 27, 2017 Burma Campaign UK today called on Min Aung Hlaing, head of the Burmese military, to immediately free three journalists detained by his soldiers on 26th June. Burma Campaign [...]
HURFOM: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
By Moderator / Rehmonnya.org | June 26, 2017 Today Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) commemorates International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. HURFOM wishes to express our solidarity with the many survivors of [...]
HURFOM: World Refugee Day Statement
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) | June 20, 2017 Today the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) commemorates World Refugee Day and the estimated 65 million asylum-seekers and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) around the [...]
Six Years Since Resumption of Civil War in Kachin
Kachin Global Action Statement | June 9, 2017 Children born on the day civil war reignited in Kachin State are now starting their first grade in school, this week. Thousands of IDPs from a total of [...]
Statement of Concern About the Results of the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference
The Karen National Union Concerned Group | June 8, 2017 1. The signing of a Union Accord as the outcome of the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference, which was convened from 24-29 May 2017, has [...]
HURFOM: World Environment Day Statement
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) | June 5, 2017 Today, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) celebrates World Environment Day. Villagers in Mon State and Mon areas of southeast Burma/Myanmar have strong economic, [...]
New EIA/SIA Causes Fear Among Local Villagers of Coal Mining Expansion in Nam Ma
Shan State Farmer's Network (SSFN) / Shan Human Rights Foundation | June 2, 2017 A recent visit by a Burmese environmental consulting company to Nam Ma, Hsipaw township, northern Shan State, has caused local villagers [...]