Press Releases – Kachin Women’s Association

KWAT Press Releases

Rights Under Attack in Northern Burma

November 3, 2026

An Overview of Human Rights Violations Perpetrated Between July…

Regional Rights Forum Expels Myanmar Junta-Controlled Commission: CSO Working Group Hail Historic SEANF Decision

October 21, 2026

21 October 2026 The CSO Working Group on Independent National…

New Briefing Paper, ‘No One Feels Safe,’

December 10, 2025

10 December 2025 On International Human Rights Day, the Network…

Press Release: Amid deadly crackdowns on urban protests, regime’s troops commit fresh war crimes in northern Burma

March 23, 2025

2 April 2021 Amid deadly crackdowns on urban protests, regime’s…

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

October 9, 2023

Date: 9 October 2023 Press release by the Kachin Women’s…

REPORT LAUNCH: SEEKING JUSTICE

July 16, 2020

Date: 16th July 2020 Kachin Women’s Association –…

Press Release : No justice for ongoing Burma Army crimes in northern Shan State

January 7, 2020

No justice for ongoing Burma Army crimes in northern Shan State…

Recent defamation case in Phakant highlights urgent need to bring the Burma Army under civilian control

September 8, 2017

September 8, 2017 Since the founding of the Kachin…

Latest Burma Army war crimes in Kachin State highlight urgent need to end military-to-military ties with Burma

August 21, 2017

Press release by KWAT On August 11, 2017, hundreds of Burma…

Kachin women expose ongoing Burma Army abuses under NLD government

November 15, 2016

Date: 2016 November 15 Press release by the Kachin Women’s…

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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.