Network Statements – Page 5 – Kachin Women’s Association

Network Statements

Urgent call for safe passage of ethnic villagers trapped by Myanmar Tatmadaw offensives throughout Kachin State and for provision of humanitarian aids

April 30, 2018

30 April 2018 From April 11 to 28, 2018, due to fierce offensives…

Kachin Communities Worldwide Demand United Nations Security Council Urgently Refers Burma to the International Criminal Court

April 23, 2018

23rd April 2018 The Burma military broke the ceasefire…

Myanmar: Drop Criminal Defamation Charges Against Kachin Activist

November 14, 2017

Decriminalize defamation laws, uphold right to freedom of expression (YANGON,…

Appeal for the immediate release of Kachin farmer Nlam Bawk Naw, arbitrarily arrested on the Ledo Road by the Burma Army on June 20, 2017

August 8, 2017

Date: 8th August, 2017 Press release by Kachin CSOs Kachin…

Six years since resumption of Civil War in Kachin

June 9, 2017

9th June 2017 Children born on the day civil war reignited…

Without Justice there can be no Peace

May 24, 2017

Civil society expectations from the 21st Century Panglong Peace…

UN Human Rights Council Decides To Urgently Dispatch An International Fact Finding Mission To Burma/Myanmar

March 24, 2017

(Geneva, 24 March 2017) – Today, in a landmark decision,…

ND-Burma Statement on the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims

March 24, 2017

On the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning…

ND-Burma 2016 Report Finds Dramatic Increase Human Rights Violations

February 8, 2017

8 February 2017For Immediate Press Release ND-Burma today…

New report exposes systematic cover-up of Myanmar Army involvement in Kachin rape-murder case

July 19, 2016

Press release by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT)…

About Us

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.