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KWAT 2024 Annual Report

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“We are pleased to share with you KWAT’s 2024 Annual Report, which highlights our  efforts to promote the rights, safety, and dignity of women and communities affected by conflict in Kachin and Northern Shan States.”

Support Myanmar’s displaced communities through border-based aid and legal protection

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Stop the Myanmar military junta’s atrocities fueling mass displacement On the occasion of World Refugee Day, we call on the United Nations (UN), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Myanmar’s neighboring countries, and the wider international community to take immediate, concrete actions to address the dire humanitarian needs of Myanmar’s displaced communities through border-based […]

Speaking Truth to Power: Ending Military Impunity in Burma/Myanmar

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18 June 2025Women’s League of Burma (WLB) is launching an influential new briefing paper and video documentary highlighting the military Junta’s widespread and systematic use of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in Burma/Myanmar on 18 June 2025. This important initiative aims to raise the voices of survivors, shed light on the scale of these crimes, and […]

Documentation in Darkness: An Overview of the Human Rights Situation in Burma Releases

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For Immediate Release The latest report by the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma), ‘Documentation in Darkness,’ presents an overview of the targeted assaults and attacks committed against innocent civilians between January and December 2024. ND-Burma member organizations recorded 1,032 violations across seven dates and six regions, including Yangon. ND-Burma and its partners compiled case […]

The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma Calls for ASEAN to Uphold and Protect Human Rights in New Briefing Paper Ahead of the 46th ASEAN Summit

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For Immediate Release Today, the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma releases a new briefing paper, “ASEAN Must Protect, Not Neglect Human Rights in Burma,” ahead of the upcoming 46th ASEAN Summit, scheduled to take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from May 26 to 27, 2025. ND-Burma members call upon ASEAN to act with integrity and a commitment […]

Beneath the Cracks

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Devastation and Destruction by the Junta in the Earthquake Aftermath One month ago, on 28 March 2025, a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Burma and neighbouring Thailand. In an instant, lives were changed forever. Buildings buckled and fell to the ground, leaving many trapped and buried under rubble, fearing for their lives. Places of worship […]

ND-Burma’s bi-annual report finds intensification of conflict led to continued deterioration of human rights in Burma

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18 April 2019 For immediate press release Throughout 2018, ND-Burma found that the human rights situation in Burma continued to deteriorate due to the intensification of conflict between the military and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs). This was particularly the case in northern Kachin and Shan states, and the majority of cases documented by ND-Burma’s member organisations originated […]

Press Release: Amid deadly crackdowns on urban protests, regime’s troops commit fresh war crimes in northern Burma

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2 April 2021 Amid deadly crackdowns on urban protests, regime’s troops commit fresh war crimes in northern Burma While the media spotlight has focused on atrocities by the regime’s security forces in urban areas since the February 1 coup, the Burma Army has been committing fresh crimes against rural villagers amidst escalating conflict in northern […]

အတိတ်မှ ဆိုးရွားသည့် အကြီးအကျယ် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ ထပ်မံမဖြစ်ပွားစေရေးအ တွက် အာမခံခြင်း (Guarantees of non-recurrence)

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အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေးကာလတရားမျှတမှု (TJ) ၏ လုပ်ငန်းစဥ် တခုမှာ အတိတ်မှ ဆိုးရွားသည့် အကြီးအကျယ် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ ထပ်မံမဖြစ်ပွားစေရေးအတွက် အာမခံခြင်း (Guarantees of non-recurrence) ဖြစ်သည်။ အတိတ်မှ ဆိုးရွားကြမ်းကြုတ် ရက်စက်မှုများ ထပ်မံမဖြစ်ပွားစေရေးအတွက် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ အပါအဝင် မတရား ဖိနှိပ်သည့် ဥပဒေများ၊ တရားဥပဒေစိုးမိုးရန် တာဝန်ရှိသည့် ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့၊ အကျဥ်းဦးစီးဌာနကဲ့သို့ ဌာနဆိုင်ရာ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း၊ နိင်ငံတော် ကာကွယ်ရေးအတွက် တာဝန်ရှိသည့် စစ်တပ်ကဲ့သို့ လက်နက်ကိုင် တပ်ဖွဲ့များ ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းများကို ဆောင်ကြသည့် “အဖွဲ့အစည်းဆိုင်ရာ ပြုပြင် ပြောင်းလဲရေး” (Institutional Reform) လုပ်ငန်းများဖြင့် ဆောင်ရွက်ကြသည်။ အဖွဲ့အစည်းဆိုင်ရာ ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း သည် TJ လုပ်ငန်းစဥ် ၄ ခုအနက်မှ အနာဂတ်အတွက် ရည်ရွယ်၍ ဆောင်ရွက်သည့် လုပ်ငန်းလည်းဖြစ်သည်။ အဆိုပါ လုပ်ငန်းစဥ်များအား အကြမ်းအားဖြင့် အောက်ပါအတိုင်း […]