Network Media Group / BNI Online | October 29, 2018 The sentiments follow State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to internally displaced people’s camps in Kachin State. Kachin community leaders say that conditions still do not allow internally [...]
World Kachin Congress (WKC) | October 22, 2018 We, members of the World Kachin Congress, a network of Kachin communities and organizations around the world, demand that the Burma Army's Northern Regional Command immediately drop criminal defamation charges against [...]
By Nan Lwin / The Irrawaddy | October 17, 2018 YANGON—Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will make a one-day visit to Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, on Friday to open a drug rehabilitation center, according [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | October 16, 2018 A KIA spokesperson says battles broke out in Myitkyina Township after government forces sent in troop reinforcements. Battles reignited between government forces and troops from the Kachin Independence Army [...]
Burma Link | October 18, 2018 Ah Ze is the General Secretary of the All Kachin Youth Union (AKYU), an organization which she joined in 2013 to empower today’s youth to work towards establishing a Federal Union in Burma. [...]
Network for Human Rights Documentation Burma (ND-Burma) | October 16, 2018 (Yangon – 16 October, 2018) Victims of human rights violations desire government reparations and deserve to see justice for what they have suffered, said the Reparations Working Group [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | October 12, 2018 There are more internally displaced persons (IDPs) on ground in the list of the IDP camps in Waingmaw Township, Kachin State than the IDPs' list by the government, according [...]
12 civil society organizations | October 9, 2018 [Yangon – 9 October, 2018] The mandate laid out in the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Law and the mindset of the current commissioners hinders the effective promotion and protection of [...]
By Saw Kyaw Khwee / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | October 1, 2018 The Australian Karen Organization (AKO) said it supports the efforts to urge the UN to refer the Tatmadaw to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [...]
By Kyaw Thu / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | October 1, 2018 Civil society organizations and local residents have called on the Myanmar government to cancel the U.S. $3.6 billion Chinese-financed Myitsone Dam on the Irrawaddy River in Kachin [...]