Burma Link | January 30, 2019 After more than seven months’ delay, the third session of the 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC), taking place in July 2018, excluded discussions on contentious issues such as non-secession, self-determination, and ethnic rights. [...]
Burma Link | January 23, 2019 Despite the years-long peace process and the October 2015 signing of the ‘Nationwide’ Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), Burma’s civil society organizations continue to be significantly underrepresented in peace negotiations and largely excluded from the [...]
Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Human Rights Watch / Progressive Voice | November 20, 2018 A delegation of religious leaders, women’s rights activists and civil society groups representing the Kachin, Shan and Ta’ang ethnic nationalities from Burma (Myanmar) completed a [...]
42 Non-Governmental Organization | November 9, 2018 Humanitarian and civil society agencies working in Rakhine State in Myanmar and in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are deeply concerned that the repatriation of refugees will commence in mid-November, according [...]
By Chit Min Tun / The Irrawaddy | November 2, 2018 YANGON — The Chin Refugee Support Committee (CRSC) has urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to shelve its plan to repatriate Chin refugees in Malaysia [...]
Burma Link | November 1, 2018 Driven by her love for Kachin people, Ah Ze always believes that she has the responsibility to empower the younger generation through education. Since 2013, she has been a member of All Kachin [...]
Progressive Voice / Rohingya Women Welfare Society (RWWS) / Kachin Women's Association - Thailand (KWAT) | October 25, 2018 [New York, 25 October 2018] – The UN Security Council (UNSC) must exercise its authority and urgently act to refer [...]
Local people and MPs in Hsipaw Township | October 12, 2018 About 1,000 local residents and MPs are gathering in Hsipaw today to oppose the damming of the Namtu/Myitnge river, and demand an immediate cancellation of the Upper Yeywa [...]
Wai Mar Tun / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | October 9, 2018 Myanmar’s largest non-state army has called for ethnic armed organizations that have not signed the government’s nationwide cease-fire accord to be included in a meeting next week [...]
By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | October 8, 2018 YANGON—About 70 Arakanese staged a protest in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo on Monday afternoon to demand the release of two prominent Arakan figures currently detained in [...]