March
7
2018
Vacant Position: Media and Communications Officer
By Progressive Voice
April
11
2018
Boat Arrivals Reemphasize the Need for Regional Action on Rohingya Crisis, ASEAN MPs Warn
By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights
April
10
2018
A Tribute to Saw O Moo: Karen Indigenous Rights Defender Gunned Down by Burma Army Soldiers in Mutraw District, Karen State
By Karen Environmental and Social Action Network
April
9
2018
မူေၾတာ္ (ဖာပြန္) ခ႐ိုင္ေဒသ အေရးေပၚကူညီေထာက္ေပးေရးအဖြဲ႕ Mutraw Emergency Assistance Team (MEAT) သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
By Mutraw Emergency Assistance Team
April
9
2018
Statement: Mutraw Emergency Assistance Team
By Mutraw Emergency Assistance Team
April
8
2018
“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈဆိုင္ရာ အကူအညီလိုအပ္သည့္ ေဘးဒုကၡ အေျခအေနမ်ား ေၾကာင့္ ထိခိုက္ ခံစားရသူအားလံုးအေနျဖင့္ ၄င္...
By UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
April
8
2018
UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief: “All people affected by humanitarian crises in Myanmar must get the assistance and protection they need”
By UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
April 11, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice
Childhood Interrupted – Myanmar Must Do More to Protect Children from Conflict and Abuses
On March 28, 2018, a Yangon court sentenced a former child soldier, Aung Ko Htway, to two years in prison with hard labor for giving an interview to the media outlet Radio Free Asia in July 2017 about his abduction into the Myanmar Army at age 14, and subsequent harsh traini... Read more ►
April 5, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice
Ethnic Communities’ Recurrent Nightmare
The indigenous peoples of conflict-affected Mutraw District of northern Karen State, where a Myanmar[1] Army offensive has displaced over 2,000 people in recent weeks, have implored State Counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to act to stop the violence. In a statement, the leade... Read more ►
March 28, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice
Action Must Go Beyond Condemnation
Myanmar[1] is once again descending into pariah status as it faced multiple criticisms of its treatment of minorities – particularly the Rohingya – during the 37th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) that concluded last week. The Resolution on Myanmar, which was ad... Read more ►
March 21, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice
Dam Nation
Communities living alongside the lifeblood of Myanmar[1] – its rivers – came together for International Rivers Day on 14 March, 2018 to make their collective voices heard and oppose harmful hydropower construction. In Karen, Karenni, and Shan States, where fourteen dam p... Read more ►
March 14, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice
Dry Season Dread
As the horrors of the Myanmar[1] Army’s campaigns of atrocities in Rakhine State are condemned by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, dry season military offensives against ethnic Kachin, Karen, and Ta’ang minorities, demonstrate how this violence is both nation... Read more ►
March 8, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice
“Press for Progress” toward Accountability for Sexual Violence and Other Crimes in Myanmar
From February 24 to March 2, 2018, a delegation from the Nobel Women’s Initiative, led by three female Nobel Peace Laureates, visited the Bangladesh border to learn about and highlight the situation of Rohingya refugees, in particular violence against Rohingya women. At th... Read more ►