By Sai Aw / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | August 21, 2017 The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) has said that it has decided to withdraw from the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) ethnic alliance. [...]
By Htoe Myar / Kantawaraddy Times / Burma News International (BNI) | August 18, 2017 A locally contested cement factory planned for Kayah (Karenni) State may violate the terms of a bilateral ceasefire if the project moves ahead without further [...]
By Stella Naw / The Irrawaddy | August 18, 2017 Two events indicating the prospect of peace and conflict were simultaneously taking place on Aug. 11, 2017. One was a meeting between the Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN), the [...]
Burma News International (BNI) | August 17, 2017 Over 20 fire-damaged houses have successfully been reconstructed in a Karreni refugee camp, allowing all families to move back into their own homes after more than a month of displacement. The [...]
By Shaw Shar / Karen Information Center (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | August 14, 2017 A leader of the Karen National Liberation Army has called for continuing the fight for ethnic autonomy, but through peaceful, political means. [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | August 13, 2017 Papun Township, KAREN STATE — On Saturday, ethnic Karen in their colorful, traditional attire joined the commemoration of the 67th Karen Martyrs’ Day, the day when Karen nationalist and [...]
Burma Link | August 11, 2017 The decades-long struggle of Burma’s ethnic nationalities for equal rights, social justice and federal democracy, and the grave human rights abuses occurring predominantly in outlying ethnic areas, continues to receive inadequate international attention. [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | August 9, 2017 CHIANG MAI, Thailand – The government Peace Commission and the ethnic coalition the United Nationalities Federal Council’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) will meet for their sixth round of formal talks [...]
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) | August 9, 2017 This year marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), codifying the individual and collective human rights of indigenous [...]
By Karen Information Centre (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | August 7, 2017 Amid efforts to entice more ethnic armed groups into the fold of the nationwide ceasefire agreement, the Karen National Union shared its peace process experiences with [...]