Entries by ND Burma

Press Release – Under Attack: Women’s Peace and Security in Burma 

The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ReleasesUnder Attack: Women’s Peace and Security in Burma on the 16-Day Campaign to End Gender Based Violence 25 November 2025 For Immediate Release  Today, the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) publishes its latest briefing paper, Under Attack: Women’s Peace and Security in Burma. Despite substantial challenges, women continue […]

Under Attack: Women’s Peace and Security in Burma

On 1 February 2021, the military deliberately sabotaged the prospects for democracy when they attempted a coup. Senior politicians and newly elected Members of Parliament were quickly detained and arbitrarily arrested. Those who escaped the junta’s grasp fled, and many remain in exile as their names circulate on military-sponsored wanted lists. Widespread opposition to the […]

HURFOM Releases New Report: “Voting Under the Barrel of a Gun – A Country at War, Not at the Polls”

The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has released a new report, “Voting Under the Barrel of a Gun: A Country at War, Not at the Polls.” The findings show that the junta’s planned election is not a democratic process but a violent campaign to manufacture legitimacy while communities face ongoing attacks and intimidation. Launched […]

ASEAN Must Unequivocally Reject Myanmar Junta’s Sham Election during the Summit

We, the undersigned trade unions, civil society, and human rights organisations from across the ASEAN region and international community, issue this urgent and unequivocal call to our governments ahead of the upcoming ASEAN Summit: outrightly reject the Myanmar military junta’s planned sham election. Anything less would be a betrayal of the people of Myanmar and […]

𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚 (𝐍𝐃-𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚)

Before the ASEAN summit, ND-Burma delegates met with the Malaysia Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) to discuss the human rights situation in Myanmar, to protect refugee and migrant workers in Malaysia and to protest against the election by the military dictators. On 15 October 2025, SUHAKAM, led by Chairman Dato’ Seri Mohd Hishamudin Yunus and Commissioner […]

2 local women killed, 2 injured in Mongngawt Myoma Market bombing

Ta’ang Women’s Organization Last night, October 20, Mongngawt Township, controlled by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (PSLF/TNLA), was reportedly targeted by airstrikes. At 8 p.m., the Mongngawt Myoma Market was airstrike bombed by the Terror military council, killing 2 locals, injuring 2 others, and burning down at least 10 houses and 5 shops, according to […]

Junta Intensifies Airstrikes Across Shan, Hitting Four Townships in First Week of October

The Myanmar military junta has escalated its aerial attacks in Shan State, carrying out airstrikes on at least four townships — Mongkut (Mogok), Namtu, Hsipaw, Mantong, and Namhsan — during the first week of October. The strikes resulted in civilian casualties and widespread damage, according to reports from locals and the Ta’ang (Palaung) National Liberation […]

Bombs to Ballots: Myanmar Junta’s Bloody Race for Recognition

The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ReleasesBombs to Ballots: Myanmar Junta’s Bloody Race for Recognition 1st  October 2025 For Immediate Release Today, the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) releases its latest briefing paper, Bombs to Ballots: Myanmar Junta’s Bloody Race for Recognition, which calls for the condemnation and immediate rejection of the […]

Bombs to Ballots: Myanmar Junta’s Bloody Race for Recognition Exposing the junta’s campaign of terror to stage a sham election

Exposing the junta’s campaign of terror to stage a sham election As the junta continues to illegally and unjustly expand their military through forced conscription, the upcoming 2025 sham election is yet another calculated attempt by the junta to bolster its legitimacy. Civil society organizations have widely condemned these efforts, describing them as ‘political theatre’[1] […]

Rakhine School Massacre Met With Chorus of Condemnation

A chorus of condemnation both from Myanmar and abroad has greeted the junta’s bombing of two private schools in Rakhine state’s Kyauktaw Township on Sept. 12 that killed 20 youngsters. The ethnic United League of Arakan (ULA) on Saturday blasted the arial massacre as a war crime. The ULA, whose armed wing the Arakan Army […]