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Open letter to UK Foreign Secretary: sanction all companies involved in supplyingaviation fuel to Myanmar

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The Honorable James CleverlySecretary of State for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development OfficeKing Charles StreetLondonSW1A 2AHUnited Kingdom 9 December 2022 Open letter to UK Foreign Secretary: sanction all companies involved in supplyingaviation fuel to Myanmar Dear Minister,To mark International Human Rights Day and in solidarity with the Myanmar people who bravely continue to defend their […]

Open letter from civil society organizations concerning ASEAN’s approach to the ongoing political, human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar

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To: ASEAN Leaders H.E. Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, Prime Minister of Brunei DarussalamH.E. Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of CambodiaH.E. Joko Widodo, President of the Republic of IndonesiaH.E. Thongloun Sisoulith, Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic RepublicH.E. Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob, Prime Minister of MalaysiaH.E. Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, […]

The attack in Kachin State must prompt UN Security Council’s urgent action against Myanmar military junta

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UN Security Council must stop deferring to ASEAN and take urgent action [28 October 2022] The UN Security Council should stop evading its responsibility to act to stop the Myanmar military’s war of terror by continuing to defer to ASEAN’s desultory Five-Point Consensus, Progressive Voice, Kachin Women’s Association Thailand – KWAT and Women’s League of Burma (WLB) said today. […]

Annual Activity Report 2022 (KWAT)

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On KWAT’s 24th Anniversary, we are delighted to share our 2022 annual activities report! This report is a comprehensive compilation of KWAT’s accomplishments, activities, and works we have done during 2022. Our achievements are the results of the combined efforts of every individual who has contributed to KWAT and for the Kachin community.

OPEN LETTER TO ADMM DIALOGUE PARTNER

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Ministry of Defense5-1 Honmura-cho, IchigayaShinjuku-kuTokyo 162-8801Japan To: H.E. Nobuo Kishi, Minister of Defense, Japan Re: Participation in the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus Experts’ Working Group on Counter Terrorism        14 July 2022 Your Excellency, We, the undersigned 448 organizations from throughout Myanmar and the world, appeal to you, as a representative of the Government of Japan […]

NEW THREATS FROM THE AIR

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This report documents ongoing human rights violations, including sexual violence, by forces of the State Administration Council (SAC) regime in Kachin State and northern Shan State between November 2021 and April 2022.Detailed maps reveal not only a continuing pattern of indiscriminate shooting and shelling into civilian areas,but a new and deadly trend of airstrikes on […]

NEW THREATS FROM THE AIR

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Press release by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) New report maps out SAC war crimes in northern Burma A new report by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) provides evidence, including detailedmaps, of war crimes by forces of the State Administration Council (SAC) regime in Kachin State and northern Shan State during the past […]

ခုခံတွန်းလှန်ခြင်း

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၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် မတ်လ ၈ရက် နိုင်ငံတကာ အမျိုးသမီးများနေ့တွင် မွန်ပြည် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်း (HURFOM), ကချင်အမျိုးသမီးအစည်းအရုံး ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ (KWAT) နှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး မှတ်တမ်းကွန်ရက်- မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ (ND-Burma) တို့မှ “ခုခံတွန်းလှန်ခြင်း”- “စစ်အာဏာ သိမ်းပြီးချိန်မှ စ၍ တနှစ်အတွင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ အမျိုးသမီးများ၏ ရဲစွမ်းသတ္တိကို စမ်းသပ်မှု” ဆိုသည့် ပူးတွဲစာတန်းကို ထုတ်ပြန်သည်။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့မှဆိုလျှင် ၁၃ လတာကြာမြင့်ပြီးနောက် မြန်မာပြည်သူများ၏ အခြေခံအခွင့်အရေးနှင့် လွတ်လပ်ခွင့်များကို စစ်အာဏာ ရှင်များမှ အလျှင်အမြန် လုယူလိုက်ကြသည်။ မြန်မာစစ်တပ်မှ အတင်း အဓမ္မထောင်နှင့်ချီဖမ်းဆီးမှုနှင့် ရာနှင့်ချီ သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရမှုတွင် အမျိုးသမီးများ လည်း ပါဝင်ကြသည်။ ပြည်သူလူထု၏ ဘဝလုံခြုံစိတ်ချ […]