Zarni Mann / The Irrawaddy | August 13, 2018 MANDALAY – A senior member of the Karen National Union ethnic armed group and four other organizers are being sued for holding the 68th Karen Martyrs’ Day in Hinthada Township, Ayeyarwady [...]
Salween Peace Park Committee / Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)| August 9, 2018 On August 9th (the 11th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the war-displaced Karen communities and their allied [...]
Thomson Reuters Foundation / The Irrawaddy | August 6, 2018 BANGKOK — Saw Ma Bu’s family has lived in the mountainous forests of Myanmar’s Karen State for generations, farming and fishing in the Salween River, even as a decades-long armed [...]
Burma Link | August 2, 2018 This story is the most recent update to Naw Lay Lit Ray Thaw’s story, published as part of Burma Link’s “Protracted Displacement” longitudinal interview series. Lay Lit comes from a village in a [...]
Karen Communities Worldwide | July 30, 2018 Karen communities worldwide join the call from Kachin and other ethnic people of Burma for the United Nations Security Council to refer Burma to the International Criminal Court. As long as members [...]
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) / Karen Rivers Watch (KRW) | July 10, 2018 The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) and Karen Rivers Watch (KRW) are proud to present our new report, "Development or Destruction? The human rights impacts of hydropower [...]
Legal Aid Network | July 12, 2018 (1) His speech, in regard to history, is ideologically incorrect. References are incomplete too. His saying as “We should not become prisoners of history” is a mere ignorance of the history. It [...]
Karen Information Center / BNI Online | July 20, 2018 The Karen (Kayin) State authorities have been clearing up unauthorized buildings since July 17 on the land that has been released by the military in San Pa Ree Village [...]
Karen Information Center / BNI Online | July 16, 2018 A skirmish erupted between the Tatmadaw and the Karen National Union (KNU) in the area controlled by the KNU Brigade 5 in Hpapun (Mu Traw) District in the Karen [...]
Karen National Defense Organization General Headquarters Kawthoolei | July 16, 2018 Dear all Leaders, Comrades and Citizens, - Today is the 71st anniversary of the Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO). Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude to [...]