By Radio Free Asia | October 6, 2017 An ethnic armed group in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state has abducted about 40 villagers from Waingmaw township in Myitkyina district, the latest incident in the multiethnic country’s ongoing struggles with rebel [...]
Written by Saw Shar/Karen Information Center (KIC News)/Burma News International (BNI) | October 2, 2017 Hoping to bring relief displaced Karen people whose camp no longer has a source of funding, the Karen diaspora across the border in Thailand [...]
Burma Link | September 1, 2017 Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) is a non-profit organization which works from Chiang Mai, Thailand, and advocates for ethnic women’s rights. The organization was created in 1999, in reaction to the deteriorating security, [...]
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 Tin Htet Paling / The Irrawaddy | July 31, 2017 WAINGMAW & MYITKYINA, Kachin State — Noticing she had a growing abdomen, 22-year-old ethnic Kachin woman Nang Tsin went to the only immediately available healthcare service nearby—a midwife. [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | July 20, 2017 A Thai court convicted and sentenced a former three-star general and 61 other defendants Wednesday in Thailand’s largest human trafficking case, which stemmed from the discovery of graves of Rohingya Muslims [...]
Libby Hogan / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | June 20, 2017 The concerns of ethnic Karen refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) were raised on Tuesday, World Refugee Day, over the lack of a clear plan for the [...]
By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | March 22, 2017 The Thailand-based Women’s League of Burma (WLB), an umbrella group of 13 Burmese women’s rights groups in exile, concluded its ninth congress in Chiang Mai on [...]
Statement by Women's League of Burma (WLB) | March 20, 2017 The Ninth Congress of the Women’s League of Burma, held from March 16 to 18, 2017, was attended by 67 people, including representatives from member organizations, members of the Advisory [...]
Karen Women's Organisation (KWO) | March 8, 2017 Happy International Women’s Day to all women around the world. We all deserve this special day and recognition for what we do and what we contribute to our family, community and [...]