Media Advisory Launch of a Briefing Paper “Blocked Aid, Unbroken People: Resisting Junta’s Aid Weaponization”

Date: 22 July 2026 (Wednesday)

Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM (Yangon Time)/ 3:30 PM – 5 PM (Bangkok Time)

Register: https://tinyurl.com/5yffu3p6

Language: Both English-to-Burmese and Burmese-to-English interpretation will be provided.

Progressive Voice, together with eight civil society organizations, will launch a follow-up briefing paper titled ‘Blocked Aid, Unbroken People: Resisting Junta’s Aid Weaponization’ on 22 July 2026. This new publication follows the August 2022 Briefing Paper, ‘Setting the Tinderbox Alight: The Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar’s Dry Zone (Sagaing, Magwe, and Mandalay Regions).

Speakers will shed light on humanitarian crisis and diverse coping strategies for survival and resilience in Myanmar’s Dry Zone, particularly in the Sagaing, Magwe and Mandalay Regions. The participants will gain firsthand insight into the scale and impact of the humanitarian crisis on affected populations across these three areas. Discussions will focus and explore urgent humanitarian needs across the Dry Zone and examine locally led response mechanisms that have proven effective in reaching communities despite restrictions and blockades imposed by the Myanmar military. Additionally, the findings and recommendations from the briefing paper will be presented and discussed.

Panelists:

• May Hnin, Emergency Management Committee – Mandalay
• Shin Thant, Butalin Township Strike Force
• Moe Swe, Ah Kayar Civil Society
• Adelina Kamal, Independent Analyst

Moderator:

• Khin Ohmar, Progressive Voice

This report is co-authored by nine civil society organizations and strike groups.

1. Ah Kayar Civil Society
2. Butalin Township Strike Force
3. Justice & Equality Focus
4. Peace Classroom
5. Progressive Voice
6. Shwe Bo Strike Force
7. Women for Justice
8. Young Wings
9. YWAN

For an embargoed version of the paper and other inquiries, please contact info@progressive-voice.org.

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