RFA, May 6, 2014 Ninety-seven Myanmar civil society organizations have condemned the drafting of legislation restricting interfaith marriages they say harms women’s rights and ethnic unity, but a monk who spearheaded calls for the measure defended it as necessary [...]
Press release by the U.S. Campaign for Burma, May 6, 2014 (Washington, D.C., May 6, 2014) – Today, the U.S. Campaign for Burma (USCB), along with 28 other human rights organizations*, called on President Obama to continue the national [...]
Burma Link, April 28, 2014 Kachin National Organization (KNO) has received information of a serious case of arbitrary arrest and torture of seven Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the IDP camps in southern Kachin State, committed by the Burma [...]
Burma Link, April 27, 2014
Villager’s house destroyed as Burma Army shells villages; Burma Army shelled villages during battles against TNLA (Palaung/Ta’ang National Liberation Army) on April 20th, 2014 in northern Shan State.[…]
By Kanbawza Win A seven year old girl raped by the Burmese army ‘Tatmadaw’ soldier was no news for the tyrannical Burmese army. They have been doing this for more than half a century, which is why the people [...]
Karen News, April 24, 2014 International pressure for an investigation into sexual violence in Burma is mounting, with the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for the Burma government to co-operate with the UN on the issue. Ban [...]
Alex Bookbinder / DVB, April 21, 2014 U Win Tin, a founding member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and a prominent journalist whose political activities and writings served as a thorn in the military’s side for decades, [...]
AAPP (B), April 21, 2014 We, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), wish to express our sorrow on hearing of the death of Hanthawaddy U Win Tin, aged 85, on 21st April 2014. We would like to convey [...]
Seamus Martov / The Irrawaddy, April 21, 2014 MAI JA YANG, Kachin State — A week of fighting between Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) forces and Burmese Army troops has left more than 5,000 people displaced in eastern Kachin and [...]
Daw Hla Shin is a 70-year-old Karen woman from Win Tar Pan village in Bilin, Mon State. She grew up amidst Burmese Army abuse that only worsened after she married a Karen soldier. The villagers lived in constant fear [...]