Statement by the AA (Arakan Army), PSLF (Palaung State Liberation Front), and MNDAA (Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army) | August 5, 2015 The Ethnic Armed Organizations’ (EAOs) Senior Delegation (SD) and the Union Peace-making Work Committee (UPWC) begins the [...]
Burma Link | August 6, 2015 Despite being on the run much of his life, Aung Than has managed to realise his life-long dream of getting a good education. For this passionate, determined, and always positive young man, however, [...]
Tim Heinemann | August 5, 2015 The time has come for ethnic leaders of Burma to directly engage American leaders at all levels of public and private sector before it is too late. After listening to the rational viewpoint [...]
Ariana Zarleen / Mizzima | August 3, 2015 Khu Oo Reh is the General Secretary of the ethnic alliance United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and the Vice Chairman of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP). In this exclusive in-depth [...]
Burma Link | August 3, 2015 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. The KWAT was [...]
Press release by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) and Burma Partnership | July 24, 2015 [Chiang Mai – 24 July 2015] The Burma Government must immediately cease the targeting, oppressing, stifling, controlling and silencing of human rights [...]
Joint press release by the SD and the UPWC | July 24, 2015 After the third day of negotiation, the EAOs’ Senior Delegation (SD) and the Union Peace Working Committee (UPWC) reached initial agreements on most of the provisions [...]
Burma Link | July 21, 2015 The Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) Day was celebrated at the KNDO Headquarters in the Karen State on July 16, 2015. The KNDO, one of the world’s oldest existing revolutionary armed groups, was [...]
Melanie Keyte / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | 17 July 2015 Close to the Burmese-Thai border, young Karenni refugees study desperately to gain acceptance into universities worldwide. But with talks of repatriation echoing through the camps, it’s unsure how [...]
Karen Women's Organization (KWO) | July 8, 2015 The Karen Women’s Organization (“KWO”) collected information regarding continuing serious human rights abuses perpetrated by the Burma Army in all seven districts in Karen State from January to June 2015. Our [...]