By Kaelyn Lynch/Karen News | November 15, 2017 Dr. Cynthia’s Mae Tao Clinic is struggling to keep helping patients as donors to the Thai-Burma border stop funding. Mae Tao Clinic is appealing for help as funding cuts from donors [...]
Karen Organization of the United States of America (KOUSA) | November 9, 2017 On November 6, 2017, nearly 10,000 Karen people gathered from around the United States for Karen Day in Washington DC. This was a historic day for [...]
Karen Peace Support Network (KPSN) | November 6, 2017 The Karen Peace Support Network (KPSN) fully supports the gathering of Karen people and their supporters in Washington, D.C. today. We support the goals established by the Karen gathering to [...]
By Saw Shar/Karen News | November 7, 2017 Karen organizations are accusing the government of abusing the ceasefire process to take advantage of investment opportunities with little regard for potential consequences to the environment or the local population. The [...]
Karen Women's Organization (KWO) | November 6, 2017 The Karen Women’s Organization and our 60,000 members support the effort of Karen people in the United States to shed light on the plight of our people and others in Burma. We know that the [...]
By Sai Wansai/Shan Herald News Agency | November 1, 2017 Two important meetings that would likely help move forward the stalled peace process were held between the government’s Peace Council (PC) and the United Nationalities Federal Council’s (UNFC) Delegation [...]
By Min Aung Htoo Naing/Mon News Agency | November 1, 2017 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has set a 2018 deadline for drawing the hotly contested fault lines of ethnic political autonomy in Myanmar’s future federal Union. The state counsellor [...]
Karen Community of Canada | October 29, 2017 As the Karen Community of Canada (KCC), an organization representing ethnic Karen refugees from Burma/Myanmar, we have watched with horror as over 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Burmese military atrocities over [...]
Burma Link | October 31, 2017 The second anniversary of the ‘Nationwide’ Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) was held on October 15 2017 in Naypyidaw, attended by the State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma Army Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min [...]
By Mark Farmaner/Karen News | October 29, 2017 This month another forgotten anniversary is passing by without official acknowledgement. The 8th of August 1988 is remembered for the nationwide protests and crackdown which followed. Troops opened fire on civilians, [...]