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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 […]

September briefing

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As the monsoon season in Myanmar comes to an end, there has been an increase in air and ground offensives against ethnic minority people. In the middle of September, 6 Burmese Army ships and 100 troops travelled up the Irrawaddy and landed in Shwegu, leaving a wake of arson, destruction and displacement in their wake. […]

End military junta’s crimes to halt mass displacementSupport local responders for effective humanitarian assistance

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End military junta’s crimes to halt mass displacementSupport local responders for effective humanitarian assistance On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, we call on the United Nations, ASEAN and the international community to urgently address the root cause of the multifaceted crisis in Myanmar and fully recognize and support local leadership for effective delivery […]