Press Release: Hidden Strengths, Hidden Struggles: Women’s testimonies from southeast Myanmar
Press Release by Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) | August 3, 2016 Today, at Summit Parkview Hotel in Yangon, Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) launched its thematic report entitled Hidden Strengths, Hidden Struggles: Women’s testimonies from southeast [...]
HURFOM Conducts FDI Study to Halt Exploitation and Violation in Mon State
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) | July 30, 2016 Today the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) releases ‘Examining Foreign Direct Investment in Mon State, Burma’, a report focusing on the effects from the [...]
Burma Border-based Civil Society Organizations Send an Open Letter to State Counselor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Press release by Burma Border-based CSOs | July 26, 2016 Burma Border-based Civil Society Organizations Send an Open Letter to State Counselor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi On 25 July, 2016, 40 civil society organizations [...]
CEDAW Shadow Report: Long Way To Go
Report by the Women's League of Burma | July 15, 2016 Continuing Violations of Human Rights and Discrimination Against Ethnic Women in Burma 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY From 1962 to 2011 in Burma, the combination of repressive rule [...]
UNFC Statement on the DPN Meeting with State Councellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Press Release by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | July 17, 2016 The UNFC Delegation led by Chairman N. Ban La of the KIO met with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi today [...]
The Nagas Have Nothing to do with the Panglong Agreement
Statement by the Naga National Council | July 4, 2016 The Nagas had been living as a free and independent people since time immemorial. Even in the British Colonial era, the Eastern Part of Nagaland [...]
Trained to Torture: Systematic War Crimes by the Burma Army in Ta’ang Areas of Northern Shan State
Report by Ta'ang Women's Organisation (PWO) | June 28, 2016 Systematic war crimes by the Burma Army in Ta'ang areas of northern Shan State (March 2011 - March 2016) TWO documentation of human rights violations [...]
ND-Burma Calls for an End to Torture on International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Statement by ND Burma | June 26, 2016 Today, June 26, is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. ND-Burma expresses our solidarity with and support for the hundreds of thousands of victims of [...]
Ongoing Tatmadaw Offensives and Impunity for War Crimes Undermine New Panglong Peace Initiative
Statement by the Women’s League of Burma | June 16, 2016 The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) is seriously concerned at the Tatmadaw’s recent new offensives and ongoing impunity for war crimes, which are undermining [...]
Joint Statement: Five Years of War- A Call for Peace, Justice, and Accountability in Myanmar
Joint statement by 130 solidarity organizations worldwide | June 09, 2016 Although much of the world has expressed excitement over Myanmar’s political transition, communities throughout Kachin and northern Shan states have been living with severe human rights [...]
KNO Calls Government of Pakistan to Stop Selling JF-17 Fighter Jets to Burmese Military
Statement by Jinghpaw Wunpawng Amyu Sha Hpung / Kachin National Organization | June 08, 2016 The KNO strongly urges the Government of Pakistan to stop selling JF-17 fighter jets to the Burmese military. Instead, we [...]
Statement of PSLF/TNLA Requesting Sanghas, Elders and People for Avoiding Racial Conflict
Statement by PSLF/TNLA | May 28, 2016 Today, May 28, 2016, as over a thousand local Shan people held protest in Kyauk-me Town and one-sidedly opposed our Ta’ang National Liberation Army with all kinds of [...]