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Defending Democracy: Four Years Since the Failed Coup in Burma

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The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma Releases New Briefing Paper, Defending Democracy: Four Years Since the Failed Coup in Burma 1 February 2025 Four years ago, the military junta attempted to undermine the results of a free and fair national election in Burma, in which the National League for Democracy achieved an overwhelming […]

Sold to China

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This report, based on interviews with 187 female trafficking survivors assisted by KWAT between 2019 and 2023, reveals that the demand for brides continues to be the main factor fuelling trafficking of women from Burma to China, and that women from throughout Burma are being trafficked for this purposeNumber of bride trafficking survivors assisted by […]

Attacks from the Air:Airstrikes Perpetrated by the Military Junta in Northern Shan State, Kachin State and Karenni State in November 2024

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This briefing paper by the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) will analyze the impact of the airstrikes perpetrated against innocent civilians by the military junta in Northern Shan State, Kachin State and Karenni State throughout November 2024.  Desk research compiled by ND-Burma in English and Burmese, combined with data from our members, found twenty-five […]

Stay true to Human Right principles

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GANHRI, it’s time to finalize your decision and stand on the side of human rights! The junta-controlled Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has failed time and again to meet even the most basic standards of the Paris Principles. Instead of defending human rights, it has been complicit in the junta’s ongoing atrocity crimes against people […]

Civil society welcomes the decision of GANHRI

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Global body recommends the removal of the accreditation status of the junta’s Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Civil society welcomes the decision of GANHRI Global body recommends the removal of the accreditation status of the junta’s Myanmar National Human Rights Commission [5 December 2023] The CSO Working Group on Independent National Human Rights Institution (Burma/Myanmar) […]

Skyfall: Myanmar’s junta targets IDP camp without warning

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On 1 February 2021, the Burmese military attempted a coup, resulting in the rise of a national resistance movement on an unprecedented scale. Following a brutal crackdown and a national uprising on an unprecedented scale, 4,160 people, including pro-democracy activists and civilians have been killed by the junta and pro-military groups, 25,353 people have been […]

Bloodstained Gateways: escalating SAC abuses in northern Burma pave the way for BRI expansion

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Date: 9 October 2023 Press release by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) A new report by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) links escalating abuses by SAC troops in Kachin and northern Shan State to the regime’s attempts to secure transport routes for expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.  The report documents a […]