Statement by Women's League of Burma | September 21, 2016. We, the Women’s League of Burma (WLB), on the occasion of the International Day of Peace on September 21st, send our wishes to the ethnic people of Burma to [...]
Burma Link | September 21, 2016 Moon Nay Li is the General Secretary of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), an organisation which she joined in 2002 in order to work for her people and community. Whilst Burma’s de [...]
Burma Link | September 21, 2016 The following case study is from the joint report “Invisible Lives: The Untold Story of Displacement Cycle in Burma” by Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), Burma Link, and Burma Partnership, which was [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | September 19, 2016 Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) currently living at an IDP camp in Sar Maw Kachin Baptist Church’s compound were interrogated by Burmese army soldiers from Sar Maw-based 105th Light Infantry Battalion on Sept 18 [...]
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | September 19, 2016 4,000 ethnic Karen were sent running from their homes by a sudden surge in violence in the Karen State. Burma Army-proxy Border Guard Force (BGF) attacked a faction of the DKBA [...]
By Ye Mon / The Myanmar Times | September 19, 2016 Deadly clashes are continuing to flare in Hpapun township, Kayin State, three weeks after fighting first broke out. Negotiations between armed factions last week appear to have failed to [...]
Statement by the Legal Aid Network (LAN) | Sept 19, 2016 Legal Analysis Statement on current armed conflict in Karen State from the perspective of human rights and the rule of law vis-a-vis the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Since the [...]
By Lun Min Mang / The Myanmar Times | September 19, 2016 In a rare admission of military misconduct, a Tatmadaw court martial has found seven soldiers guilty of murdering Shan villagers during a botched interrogation. After two months of investigation, [...]
September 19, 2016 The following interview was conducted as part of the research for the joint report “Invisible Lives: The Untold Story of Displacement Cycle in Burma” by Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), Burma Link, and Burma Partnership, [...]
By Swan Ye Htut / The Myanmar Times | September 16, 2016 President U Htin Kyaw highlighted the importance of recognising the voices and rights of minorities in a formal address read out on his behalf yesterday at a ceremony in [...]