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Date: June 9th, 2019 Eight years ago today, the Burma Army attacked the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), breaking their 17-year-old Bilateral Ceasefire Agreement of 1994. Since then, the renewed war has ravaged northern Burma, displacing over 120,000 people and emptying over 360 villages. The occupation and aggression of the Burma Army in northern Burma continues […]
14 May 2019 By CSO Working Group on MNHRC Reform We, the 24 organizations of the CSO Working Group on MNHRC Reform, call on the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) to act independently of the Myanmar military, and take firm, decisive action in regards to gross human rights violations committed in ethnic, conflict-affected areas. […]
(2 May 2019) – The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) successfully held its 10th Congress from April 22-24, 2019, along the Thai-Burma border, where 70 delegates attended, including representatives from its member organizations, policy board members, secretariat members, advisors, technical advisors, program coordinators and staff. At the Congress, the delegates approved working and financial reports, prepared by the secretariat, which was appointed at the […]
The reporting period saw approximately 190 armed clashes, with some 32,000 people becoming newly displaced as a result. At the time of writing, there is an estimated 106,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in 172 IDP sites in northern Shan and Kachin states, with requests by humanitarian organizations for humanitarian access to IDP camps outside of […]
10th March 2019 The 10th Congress of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) was held in a liberated area near the Thai-Burma Border during 25-26 February 2019. 45 KWAT members attended the congress, including staff from inside Burma, as well as 2 observers. During the two days of the congress, programs and project activities and secretariat activities […]
February 2019 Union Parliament votes in favour of committee to draft amendments to the 2008 Constitution; Continued human rights violations in Rakhine State by Burma Army; Civic space for freedom of expression and freedom of assembly continues to shrink. The Union Parliament voted in favour of forming a committee to draft amendments to the military-drafted 2008 Constitution, […]
December 08, 2018 The World Kachin Congress strongly condemns the heinous sentencing of three Kachin civil society leaders to six months in prison and a fine of 500,000 kyat each for defamation of the Burma Army under Article 500 of the Panel Law. Ms Nang Pu, Mr Lum Zawng, and Mr Zau Jat had committed […]
In 2017, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Humanitarian Health partnered with the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand to conduct a mixed methods study (combining qualitative and quantitative research methods) in Kachin State and Northern Shan State in Myanmar, and Yunnan Province in China. The study seeks to estimate the prevalence of trafficking for forced marriage […]
(Yangon – 16 October, 2018) Victims of human rights violations desire government reparations and deserve to see justice for what they have suffered, said the Reparations Working Group initiated by the Network for Human Rights Documentation Burma (ND-Burma) in a new report released today. The report, which is the first ever needs assessment of victims of human […]
Victims of human rights violations in Burma This report has been prepared by the Reparations Working Group, initiated by the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma). The Working Group currently has 19 members and is campaigning for a government reparations programme. The findings of this report are based on interviews conducted with victims […]
The Burmese military has ruled and waged civil war within the territory of the union of Burma for many decades. As a result, Kachin and non-Burman ethnicities have been enduring severe hardship, such as impoverishment, and lack of access to health and education. In 1994, a ceasefire agreement was signed between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO/A) and the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), but did not lead to any political negotiation. Instead, the SPDC took advantage of the agreement to start large-scale extraction of natural resources from the territory of Kachin State.