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UN Human Rights Council Decides To Urgently Dispatch An International Fact Finding Mission To Burma/Myanmar
/in Network Statements/by kwat-admin(Geneva, 24 March 2017) – Today, in a landmark decision, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution to urgently dispatch an international fact finding mission to look into gross human rights violations in Burma/Myanmar. This comes after numerous calls by UN experts and civil society for an International Commission of Inquiry (COI) into allegation of […]
ND-Burma Statement on the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
/in Network Statements/by kwat-adminOn the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims ND-Burma calls on the NLD-led government and ethnic armed organizations to publicly acknowledge that grave human rights abuses have been committed by all parties and continue to be perpetrated in the context of Burma’s […]
Statement from the Ninth Congress of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
/in Statements/by kwat-admin24th February 2017 The Ninth Congress of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) was held in a liberated area near the Thai-Burma Border from 20-23 February 2017. 43 members attended the Congress, including staff from inside Burma, and three observers. During the four days of the Congress, programs and project activities and Secretariat activities from 2015-2016 […]
REPORT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN BURMA [January to December 2016]
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ND-Burma 2016 Report Finds Dramatic Increase Human Rights Violations
/in Network Statements/by kwat-admin8 February 2017For Immediate Press Release ND-Burma today releases its 2016 report on the human rights situation in Burma/Myanmar, which shows a dramatic increase in the number of human rights violations committed. Some of the key findings in the report include: The Irrawaddy has published an article summarising the findings, which you can find here: ‘Burma […]
Hidden Plight: Christian Minorities in Burma
/in Network Reports/by kwat-adminThe enduring, constitutionally entrenched power of the military and the elevation of Buddhism as the de facto state religion are key factors in understanding violations of religious freedom currently affecting Christian communities in Burma. Many of the discriminatory policies and practices instituted under the military regime continue today. The renamed Ministry of Religious Affairs and […]
More than five years after a woman disappeared while in Tatmadaw custody, a Kachin family waits for answers.
/in News/by kwat-adminSUMLUT HTU Ra’s normally sunny face turns serious when asked how her family has coped with the disappearance of her sister, Sumlut Roi Ja, who was taken away by Tatmadaw soldiers almost exactly five years ago. “It affected her husband and her daughter the most. He went into a depression, but now, after a long time, […]
Kachin women expose ongoing Burma Army abuses under NLD government
/in Press Releases/by kwat-adminDate: 2016 November 15 Press release by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) A new report by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) documents ongoing, widespread Burma Army abuses in Kachin areas of northern Burma over the past year, since the National League for Democracy (NLD) was voted into power. “A far cry from peace” […]
A Far Cry From Peace: Ongoing Burma Army Offensives and Abuses in Northern Burma Under the NLD Government
/in Reports/by kwat-adminThis report provides an update of the security situation in Kachin areas of northern Burma during the past year, since the November 2015 elections. Despite hopes that the new government led by the National League for Democracy (NLD) would move the peace process forward and bring an end to fighting, Burma Army offensives in the […]
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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.