NMSP to Urge Other UNFC Members to Sign NCA

By Wonsa Mon / Mon News Agency | March 23, 2017 As the Wa continue to push fellow ethnic armed groups to abandon the nationwide ceasefire agreement and start negotiations anew, the movement has encountered resistance in Mon State. [...]

2020-05-30T23:18:59+07:00March 24th, 2017|Featured Collection, News, Recommended|

WCRP release: “Cracks in the Silence: Sexual Violence against Children and Challenges to Accessing Justice in Mon State and Mon Areas of Southeast Burma”

Today HURFOM’s Women and Child Rights Project (WCRP) releases their latest report, “Cracks in the Silence: Sexual violence against children and challenges to accessing justice in Mon State and Mon areas of southeast Burma.” Report in English and Burmese [...]

2020-05-30T23:19:00+07:00March 24th, 2017|Featured Collection, Press Releases and Statements, Recommended|

New Mon State Party Likely to Sign NCA

By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | March 23, 2017 RANGOON — The New Mon State Party (NMSP) is likely to sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) despite waning enthusiasm for the agreement in the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), [...]

2020-05-30T23:19:04+07:00March 23rd, 2017|Featured Collection, News, Recommended|

Thousands Protest as Resistance to Controversial Bridge Name Grows

By Aow Mon / Mon News Agency | March 22, 2017 Several thousand people in Mon State joined a March 19 protest against a parliamentary decision to name a bridge after Bogyoke Aung San in spite of local opposition. [...]

2020-05-30T23:19:05+07:00March 22nd, 2017|Featured Collection, News, Recommended|

Women’s Group Appoints New Leaders, Plans Move to Burma

By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | March 22, 2017 The Thailand-based Women’s League of Burma (WLB), an umbrella group of 13 Burmese women’s rights groups in exile, concluded its ninth congress in Chiang Mai on [...]

2020-05-30T23:19:06+07:00March 22nd, 2017|Featured Collection, News, Recommended|

Stop Using Civilians as Weapons of War, Shan CSOs Urge Armed Groups

By Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | March 21, 2017 Following accusations of extrajudicial killings and the mass abduction of civilians in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme district by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), 35 local civil society [...]

2020-05-30T23:19:07+07:00March 21st, 2017|Featured Collection, News, Recommended|
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