Press release by Shan Human Rights Foundation, Shan Sapawa Environmental Organisation and Shan State Farmers’ Network | March 30, 2016 A new report launched today by Shan community groups calls for an immediate halt to the Upper Yeywa dam [...]
Press release by the Shan State Farmers’ Network (SSFN) and Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | March 3, 2016 The Shan State Farmers’ Network (SSFN) and the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) deplore renewed attempts by gold mining companies [...]
Situation update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | December 28, 2015 This update documents further incidents of abuse against civilians committed by Burmese government troops during their offensive in central Shan State since early October 2015. SHRF [...]
Update by Free Burma Rangers | December 15, 2015 / Kachin State and Shan State, Burma Burma Army intensifies attacks against ethnics in spite of elections. During October and November 2015 the Burma Army increased their attacks against the [...]
Press release by the Shan State Farmers’ Network | December 8, 2015 Over 300 farmers from different areas of Shan State attended a ceremony yesterday to honor Loong Sarm, a farmer who was shot and killed two months ago [...]
Press release by Shan Community Based Organisations | November 26, 2015 Shan community organizations are today holding a press conference in Bangkok to urge the international community to break its silence on the war crimes being committed by Burmese [...]
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation | November 20, 2015 The Shan Human Rights Foundation strongly condemns the Burma Army shelling and aerial bombing of Mong Nawng town in central Shan State between November 9 and 12, 2015. [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N) | November 9, 2015 As polls closed in the country’s general election yesterday, Burma Army soldiers shot two civilians—including one child—as they were leaving their paddy fields in southern Shan State, according to [...]
Statement by Shan Community Based Organisations | November 6, 2015 Shan Community Based Organisations (CBOs) strongly denounce the current military offensive by Naypyidaw in central Shan State, which has caused civilian injury and displaced over 6,000 villagers since it [...]
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation | November 3, 2015 The SHRF strongly condemns the escalated attacks in the past week by the Burma Army against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in central Shan State, [...]