Khonumthung News / BNI Online | August 27, 2018 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Chief of Mission has postponed the plan to interview Chin refugees in September and October as part of the repatriation program and [...]
Burma Campaign UK (BCUK) | August 23, 2018 One year since the pre-planned military offensive against the Rohingya, more than 1 million Rohingya now live as refugees in Bangladesh. More than half are children. Conditions in the camps are appalling, despite [...]
Khonumthung News / BNI Online | August 16, 2018 Two Chin refugees were arrested in early June after returning back to Myanmar from Malaysia in fear of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)’s decision on the Chin [...]
Salween Peace Park Committee / Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)| August 9, 2018 On August 9th (the 11th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the war-displaced Karen communities and their allied [...]
South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC) / South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAHRF) / Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) / Chin Refugee Committee Delhi (CRC) / Independent Chin Communities Malaysia (ICC) | August 3, 2018 The South [...]
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM‐ASIA) / Progressive Voice / Equality Myanmar | August 3, 2018 (Bangkok, 3 August 2018) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM‐ASIA), together with Equality Myanmar and Progressive [...]
Burma Link | August 2, 2018 This story is the most recent update to Naw Lay Lit Ray Thaw’s story, published as part of Burma Link’s “Protracted Displacement” longitudinal interview series. Lay Lit comes from a village in a [...]
Burma Link | July 3, 2018 Khu Reh* grew up in Karenni State amidst poverty and lack of educational opportunity. Since the age of 13, Khu Reh dropped out of school and worked any jobs he could find to [...]
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) / Equality Myanmar / Progressive Voice / Smile Education and Development Foundation (SEDF) / Kachin Women's Association of Thailand (KWAT) / Rohingya Women Welfare Society (ROWWS) | June 28, 2018 Yesterday [...]
Karen News on Vimeo | June 28, 2018 The massive withdrawal of international aid to refugees living in camps on the Thai Burma has created huge challenges for the people. After 30 years of support for the refugees from [...]