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“အိမ္မလြမ္းသူဘယ္သူရွိမလဲ – ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ လက္နက္ကိုင္ပဋိပကၡႏွင့္ ဆက္စပ္ေနေသာ ကာလရွည္ၾကာ ေနရပ္စြန္႔ခြာထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာ...

June 14, 2019 • Author: Progressive and 14 Civil Soceity Organizations

၂၀၁၉ ခုႏွစ္ ဇြန္လ ၁၄ ရက္ေန႔ ၂၀၁၉ ခုႏွစ္ ဇြန္လ ၂၀ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ က်ေရာက္မည့္ ကမၻာ့ဒုကၡသည္ေန႔ကို အထိမ္းအမ�... Read more ►

The Launch of a New Report, “There Is No One Who Does Not Miss Home: A Report on Protracted Displacement Due to Armed Conflict in Burma/Myanmar”

June 14, 2019 • Author: Progressive and 14 Civil Soceity Organizations

14 June 2019 As we mark World Refugee Day on 20 June, 2019 it is more important than ever for the refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Myanmar to be recognized as equal citizens, adequately consulted and be able to meaningfully participate in all decision-mak... Read more ►

Job Vacancy: Acting Research Director

May 29, 2019 • Author: Progressive Voice

Progressive Voice is seeking an Acting Research Director who will be responsible for the successful implementation of the research components of Progressive Voice’s projects, including designing appropriate research methodologies and ensuring the safety and security of dat... Read more ►

Appetite for Destruction

June 12, 2019 • Author: Progressive Voice

On World Environment Day, Myanmar[1], which is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, seems committed to go down a damaging, fossil fuel-dependent development path over sustainable, locally-led ecological governance that values and protects the ... Read more ►

တအာင္းအမ်ိဳးသမီးငယ္တစ္ဦးကို္ ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္ စစ္သား ၂ ဦးမွ မုဒိမ္းျပဳက်င့္ခဲ့ၿပီး တာ၀န္ယူေျဖရွင္းေပးမႈ မရွိသည့္အေပၚ တအာင...

June 11, 2019 • Author: Ta'ang Students and Youth Union, Ta'ang Women's Organization and Ta'ang Legal Aid

၁) တအာင္း(ပေလာင္)ကိုယ္ပိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခြင့္ရေဒသ နမ့္ဆန္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ၂၀၁၉ ခုုႏွစ္ ေမလ (၁၀) ရက္ေန႔ ေန႔ခ�... Read more ►

Statement by Ta’ang civil society groups on the Burma Army’s failure to take action over the rape of a young Ta’ang woman

June 10, 2019 • Author: Ta'ang Students and Youth Union, Ta'ang Women's Organization and Ta'ang Legal Aid

A 27-year-old Ta’ang woman, “Lway Sein” (not her real name), was raped by two Burma Army soldiers, out of uniform but holding pistols, when she went to a tea farm at about 1.30 pm on 10 May, 2019, in Namsan township, Northern Shan State. Burma Army Battalions no. 258,... Read more ►

BHRN Appalled by ASEAN Report on Rohingya Repatriation

June 10, 2019 • Author: Burma Human Rights Network

London, UK — Burma Human Rights Network is appalled by a leaked report from ASEAN’s Emergency Response and Assessment Team which predicted an easy process returning 500, 000 Rohingya to Burma in the next two years and downplayed the severity of abuses carried out by ... Read more ►

Statement by the World Kachin Congress on the 8th Anniversary of the Resumption of Civil War

June 9, 2019 • Author: World Kachin Congress

Eight years ago today, the Burma Army attacked the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), breaking their 17-year-old Bilateral Ceasefire Agreement of 1994. Since then, the renewed war has ravaged northern Burma, displacing over 120,000 people and emptying over 360 villages. The occ... Read more ►

Action Must Be Taken Over Burma Army Rape Of Ta’ang Woman In Shan State

June 8, 2019 • Author: Burma Campaign UK

Burma’s military and police have failed to properly investigate and seek to prosecute two Burmese Army soldiers who raped an ethnic Ta’ang women on 10th May 2019. According to local sources, two Burmese Army soldiers wearing plain clothes entered in Namhsan, northern Sha... Read more ►

UN & ASEAN Continue to Exclude Rohingya Refugee Voices

June 8, 2019 • Author: Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights

Yesterday AFP media reported a leaked copy of the ASEAN Preliminary Needs Assessment for Repatriation in Rakhine State. The document is secret and we Rohingya refugees were not consulted in the assessment. The ASEAN say Myanmar will only accept 500,000 Rohingya back to Myanm... Read more ►

Myanmar: Criminalisation of Free Expression

June 7, 2019 • Author: Article 19

Freedom of expression is severely threatened in Myanmar. The right to freedom of expression, guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and various other international legal instruments, is key to human ... Read more ►

Rohingya Refugees’ Perspectives on Their Displacement in Bangladesh: Uncertain Futures

June 6, 2019 • Author: ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group

Bangladesh hosts over 900,000 Rohingya refugees, and their displacement is likely to be protracted. Recognising the complexities and sheer scale of the challenge of refugee hosting in Cox’s Bazar, as well as other development challenges and opportunities in Bangladesh, th... Read more ►

Deaths in Army Custody Need Independent Inquiry: Killing of 6 Villagers in Rakhine State Should Be Fully, Credibly Investigated

June 6, 2019 • Author: Human Rights Watch

(New York) – Myanmar authorities should independently investigate the killing of detainees held by the military in Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 2, 2019, army soldiers shot and killed at least six villagers from among several hundred who had been det... Read more ►

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