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Statement of the 10th Congress of Women’s League of Burma 

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(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 […]

Report: Human Rights Situation in Burma 2018

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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 […]

Seeking Justice in Burma

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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, […]

Wold Kachin Congress deplores unjust sentencing of Kachin civil society leaders, calls for sanctions against the real criminals – the Burma Army

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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 […]

Estimating Trafficking of Myanmar Women for Forced Marriage and Childbearing in China

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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 […]

YOU CANNOT IGNORE US: Victims of human rights violations in Burma

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(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 […]

YOU CANNOT IGNORE US

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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 […]

Human trafficking on China border can only be addressed by ending Burma Army offensives and war crimes

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Statement on Myanmar’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Day September 13, 2018 On Myanmar’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Day, KWAT urges Burma’s government and the international community to recognize that without an end to Burma Army offensives and war crimes, the problem of human trafficking along the China border will never be solved. KWAT has been assisting survivors […]

Update on the Human Rights Situation in Burma (January – June 2018)

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ND-Burma’s bi-annual report finds human rights situation deteriorating across the country  ND-Burma documented 45 cases of human rights violations across four states and regions over the period January – June 2018. ND-Burma recorded 24 cases over the same six-month period in 2017, and 50 cases over the whole of 2017. The uptick in human rights violations recorded is the […]

International Kachin Community Supports Fact-Finding Mission’s Call to Refer Burma to the ICC

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3 September, 2018 – We, the International Kachin Community, welcome the August 27 report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Burma [Myanmar] and support its recommendations. The Fact-Finding Mission found evidence of “genocidal intent” in relation to Rakhine State and “crimes against humanity” and “war crimes” in the systematic patterns of human rights violations occurring […]