Sai Wansai/Shan Herald Agency for News | December 5, 2017 Recently, on December 1, a report from Radio Free Asia indicated that the parliament would soon debate and decide upon the designation of 135 ethnic groups categorization on whether [...]
Kachinland News | December 5, 2017 KIA frontline sources said Burmese army posts stationed in Momauk and Mansi Townships in southeastern Kachin state reportedly continued provocative shelling on their frontline positions. Bang Htan Ka Din-based 387th Light Infantry Regiment troops [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | December 4, 2017 Burma Army LIB 147 uses forced labor, loots food and requisitions civilian trucks during military operation against SSPP/SSA in Hsipaw During a military operation against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan [...]
Lahpai Seng Raw/Kachinland News | November 28, 2017 It has been a full 2 years since the landslide victory of the NLD in the 2015 elections, and the subsequent formation of a civilian-led government. At this point in time, [...]
Women's League of Burma (WLB) | November 25, 2017 Today, to coincide with the 2017 International Day to stop Violence against Women, the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) launches a briefing paper titled, “Girls Bear the Shame”. The briefing [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News | November 24, 2017 Amid a catastrophic human rights crisis, the space for civil society and human rights defenders is shrinking as protests in Yangon are banned, a land rights defender is beaten to death, and spurious charges [...]
By Sai Wansai/Shan Herald Agency for News | November 21, 2017 From November 2 to 4, Kawthoolei Land Seminar attended by over 370 participants representing 53 Karen organizations was held in Law Khee Lah, Hpa-an District, in Karen Nation [...]
By Jared Downing/Frontier Myanmar | November 22, 2017 After 70 years of conflict, the KNU and local NGOs are beginning to work alongside the government in providing healthcare to the Karen people. A cycle crash and a nasty gash [...]
Kaelyn Lynch/Karen News | November 21, 2017 Refugees from Burma are finding it difficult to stay, difficult to go home. In Thailand, funding cuts to refugee camps have left over 100,000 displaced people from Burma to choose between trying [...]
By Daung Lu/Mizzima News | November 18, 2017 Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) issued its monthly report which says the number of prisoners arrested for political activities has reached 221 in Myanmar until the end of October 2017 [...]