By Sean Gleeson / Frontier | April 3, 2017 YANGON — The government’s most important non-state partner in the peace process risks a return to the conflict that brutalised Myanmar’s east for decades without a stronger commitment to political dialogue [...]
By KIC / Burma News International (BNI) | March 31, 2017 After extensive discussions and over a week of debates, the Karen National Union finally has a new charter setting out its governing principles and administration. The KNU, one [...]
By Saw Yan Naing / The Irrawaddy | March 31, 2017 Burma’s longest running ethnic armed organization, the Karen National Union (KNU), began its struggle with a clear political purpose. It was starting a “revolution,” and under revolutionary circumstances, [...]
By KIC / Burma News International (BNI) | March 24, 2017 With donor-supplied food rations set to stop soon, internally displaced families in Kayin (Karen) State say they are worried about their future, yet have little recourse. Donors are [...]
Burma Link | March 20, 2017 On the banks of the Salween River, one of the largest free-flowing rivers in the world, local communities and community-based organisations gathered together on March 14th -- marking the International Day of Action [...]
Karen News | March 20, 2017 The 16th Congress of the Karen National Union (KNU) is underway. Karen News spoke to Karen leaders to get their opinions on the election for a new leadership that will come out during [...]
Leena Zieger / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | March 17, 2017 Ethnic communities across Burma are raising their voices to strongly oppose plans by the Burma government and the global hydropower industry to build large dams that threaten [...]
Events marking the International Day of Action for Rivers on March 14 were held across Burma’s ethnic states, where communities raise their voices to oppose dams threatening to destroy their lives and cultures. If not stopped, Salween River dams [...]
Karen News | March 16, 2017 In downtown Mawlamyine Capital of Mon State, a crowd of 200 gathered on March 14 to stage a protest against hydropower projects in conflict zones. Marking the International Day of Action for Rivers, [...]
Statement by SSN, BRN and BEWG | March 14, 2017 Today, on the International Day of Action for Rivers, communities around the country are gathering to oppose plans by the Burmese government and global hydropower industry to build cascades of [...]