Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | August 2, 2016 Burmese government troops committed serious human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrest, torture and killing of local villagers, during their offensive to drive out the Shan State Progress [...]
By Htet Khaung Linn / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | August 1, 2016 It’s nearly dinner time at the dormitory in Maijayang and teachers are busy in the kitchen, while several teenagers are lounging on benches outside the building in [...]
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 recent surge of Foreign [...]
By Moe Gyo / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | July 29, 2016 Federalism has been posited as one of the solutions toward resolving the ethnic conflict in Burma and achieving long sought sustainable peace. Toward understanding the concept [...]
By Coconuts Yangon / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | July 28, 2016 Despite somewhat confusing attempts to suspend it, Burma’s Ethnic Youth Conference in Shan State went ahead on Tuesday in Panlong, the historic site of the 1947 [...]
By Min Thither Khine / Mon News Agency (MNA) | July 28, 2016 The New Mon State Party (NMSP), the predominant ethnic Mon resistance group, has been urged to release an official statement naming the All Mon Regions Democracy Party [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | July 27, 2016 Ethnic Armed Organizations’ plenary meeting attended by 18 ethnic armed organizations and major ethnic nationalities’ political parties began Tuesday in Mai Ja Yang, a city located in KIO’s administrative area in southern [...]
Burma Partnership | July 26, 2016 On 17 July, 2016, the State Counselor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met with the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) to discuss a framework for the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Conference. Comprising of [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | July 26, 2016 MAI JA YANG, Kachin State — Leaders representing 17 ethnic armed groups gathered in Mai Ja Yang, Kachin State on Tuesday to search for common ground in working toward [...]
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 (CSOs) based on Burma’s [...]