August 2017
Troop Withdrawal Crucial for Peace in Myanmar
By Edith Mirante / The Irrawaddy | August 2, 2017 The Tatmadaw—Myanmar’s armed forces—should withdraw its bases from ethnic regions where its presence continues to be linked to human rights violations and resource grabbing. Troop [...]
KNU and Local Aid Workers Seek 11th Hour Support for IDP Camp
By Karen Information Centre (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | August 2, 2017 Karen activists and aid workers are trying to drum up last-minute support for a shelter of internally displaced persons, before it [...]
Suu Kyi Pledges Schooling for Children from Kachin IDPs Camps
By Ye Mon / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | August 2, 2017 Burma’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has pledged to assist Kachin children who are currently living in camps for Internally Displaced [...]
July 2017
Transforming Futures of Female Kachin IDPs Through Sex Education
By Tin Htet Paling / The Irrawaddy | July 31, 2017 WAINGMAW & MYITKYINA, Kachin State — Noticing she had a growing abdomen, 22-year-old ethnic Kachin woman Nang Tsin went to the only immediately available [...]
Military Says Not to Use ‘Unfriendly Words’ to Refer to The Tatmadaw
By Min Min / Mizzima News | July 31, 2017 Maj. Gen. Aunt Ye Win from the Tatmadaw (Defence Services) True News Information Committee urged media to control and refrain from using unfriendly words such [...]
KYO Holds Youth Forum in Mae La Refugee Camp
By Karen News | July 28, 2017 Karen refugee youth took part in a politics, peace and management bootcamp this week. Over 70 people attended the three-day training, which was held at the Mae La [...]
Karenni Refugee Camp in Need of Supplies to Rebuild Fire-Ravaged Houses
Karen Information Center (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | July 28, 2017 Only five houses have been rebuilt in a Karenni refugee camp in Thailand after a fire in the beginning of the month. [...]
Article 66(d) Under Debate in Upper House
Democratic Voice of Burma | July 27, 2017 Members of Burma’s Upper House of Parliament sat in session yesterday to debate potential changes to the controversial Telecommunications Act, which critics have slammed as a government [...]
In Undermining Yanghee Lee, NLD-Led Government Enables Military Power
Progressive Voice (PV) | July 26, 2017 Last Friday, 21 July, 2017, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar,[1] Ms. Yanghee Lee, concluded her third country visit under the National League for [...]
State Counselor, KBC Discuss Kachin IDP Issues
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | July 26, 2017 YANGON — Myanmar’s State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) held talks on the resettlement and schooling [...]