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Burma’s Identity Crisis: How Ethno-religious Nationalism Has Led to Religious Intolerance, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide

May 21, 2019 • Author: Christian Solidarity Worldwide

Burma (Myanmar) has been ruled for over half a century by a succession of military regimes which have consistently committed grave violations of human rights. Burma has also endured over 60 years of civil war between the military and many of the ethnic nationalities who see... Read more ►

ေရးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ေတာင္ပိုင္း၊ မန္က်ည္းေက်းရြာအုပ္စုရွိ ေတာင္သူမ်ား လယ္ယာေျမလုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္လက္မွတ္ (ပံုစံ-၇) ေလွ်ာက္ထားရာတြင္ ႀကံဳ�...

May 15, 2019 • Author: Mon Area Community Development Organization

မူရင္းအစီရင္ခံစာ အျပည့္အစံုကို ဤေနရာ၌ ရယူပါ။ ... Read more ►

2018 Annual Report

May 3, 2019 • Author: The Border Consortium (TBC)

This report covers the period January to December 2018 and outlines TBC’s progress based on the organisation’s Strategic Directions for Thailand and Burma/Myanmar 2017–2019. TBC’s programmes reached more than 138,000 men, women, and children—about 91,0003 in nine ... Read more ►

Defamation? International Standards and Myanmar’s Legal Framework

May 3, 2019 • Author: Free Expression Myanmar

Myanmar is not the first country to start a transition to democracy. It follows many others, most of which have found that reforming defamation laws was a critical first step to democracy. Without reform, public debate, which democracies rely on, cannot be open and free. Co... Read more ►

Nyaunglebin District: Tatmadaw Road Construction Activities Lead to Confrontations with the KNLA, Displacement and Property Damage in Kyaukkyi Township

April 29, 2019 • Author: Karen Human Rights Group

From February until early April 2019, intermittent confrontations between the Tatmadaw and the KNLA resulted in the displacement of at least 108 people in Kheh Der village tract. The fighting broke out because the Tatmadaw is undertaking controversial road construction works... Read more ►

Abuse or Exile: Myanmar’s Ongoing Persecution of the Rohingya

April 24, 2019 • Author: Refugees International

One million Rohingya refugees continue to live in Bangladesh, with little prospect for safe return to their homeland in western Myanmar. Forcibly displaced by years of persecution and a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign at the end of 2017, the Rohingya are understandably afr... Read more ►

Promises Turn into A Statue: Unsettled Disputes of General Aung San Statue in A Land with Untold History

April 20, 2019 • Author: Athan – Freedom of Expression Activist Organization

Introduction Union government of Myanmar and regional governments’ political bandwagon, General Aung San statue projects reached Loikaw Township, capital of Karenni State in 2018. Ethnic residents, youth leaders and civil society organizations resisted the statue project ... Read more ►

Human Rights Situation in Burma 2018

April 19, 2019 • Author: Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma

The reporting period saw approximately 190 armed clashes, with some 32,000 people becoming newly displaced as a result. At the time of writing, there is an estimated 106,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in 172 IDP sites in northern Shan and Kachin states, with reques... Read more ►

“Sold Like Fish”: Crimes against Humanity, Mass Graves, and Human Trafficking from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Malaysia from 2012 to 2015

March 27, 2019 • Author: Fortify Rights

On April 30, 2015, Thai authorities announced the discovery of a mass grave in a makeshift camp in a forested area near the Malaysian border. The grave contained more than 30 bodies of suspected victims of human trafficking believed to be Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi na... Read more ►

“Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go” Trafficking of Kachin “Brides” from Myanmar to China

March 21, 2019 • Author: Human Rights Watch

Summary Seng Moon’s family fled fighting in Myanmar’s Kachin State in 2011 and wound up struggling to survive in a camp for internally displaced people. In 2014, when Seng Moon was 16 and attending fifth grade, her sister-in-law said she knew of a job as a cook in China... Read more ►

40th Session Human Rights Council Resolution on the Human Rights Situation in Myanmar

March 19, 2019 • Author: 40th Session Human Rights Council

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UNICEF Myanmar Humanitarian Situation Report #2 – 15 March 2019

March 15, 2019

Highlights Fighting continues to displace people in Rakhine and Shan States causing displacement of 3,700 people bringing the total displacement in the first two months of the year to approximately 7,500 people. Kachin State has not experienced armed conflict and resulting ... Read more ►

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