Mizzima The High Representative released a joint statement on 6 January on behalf of the European Union and the governments of the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, and the United Kingdom. This statement expresses deep concern regarding the worsening human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. The […]
Three civilians were killed by airstrikes at the Sin-Sakhan (Elephant) Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Loikaw Township of Karenni State on Tuesday. “They deliberately targeted this area,” said a spokesperson from Jobs For Kayah, a group providing humanitarian aid at IDP camps in Karenni State. The victims included a 40-year-old woman who was killed […]
အခြေခံအယူအဆ • အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေးဆိုင်ရာ တရားမျှမှု (TJ) လုပ်ငန်းစဥ်များထဲမှာ တခုမှာ “ပြန်လည်ကုစားပေး လျော်မှု (Reparation)” ဖြစ်သည်။ • ပြန်လည်ကုစားပေးလျော်မှုကို အတိတ်ကာလက လူ့အခွင့်အရေး အကြီးအကျယ်ချိုးဖောက်ခံ ရသူများ နှင့် ၎င်းတို့၏ မိသားစုများအတွက် နစ်နာခဲ့မှုများကို အသိအမှတ်ပြုကာ ကုစားပေး ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ • ပြန်လည်ကုစားပေးလျော်မှု (Reparation) ကို နစ်နာသူ တဦးချင်းကို ပေးအပ်ခြင်းနှင့် နစ်နာသူ လူအုပ်စုအလိုက် ပေးအပ်ခြင်းမျိုး ဆောင်ရွက်လေ့ရှိသည်။ • ပြန်လည်ကုစားပေးလျော်မှုကို အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေးကာလတွင် တရားဝင်ဖွဲ့စည်းပေးသည့် အမှန်တ ရားနှင့်ပြန်လည်သင့်မြတ်ရေးကော်မရှင် (TRC) များ၏ တွေ့ရှိချက်နှင့် အကြံပြုချက် များအပေါ် အခြေခံ၍ နစ်နာသူများအပေါ် သက်ဆိုင်ရာ အစိုးရများက ဆောင် ရွက်ပေးကြ သည်။ ပြန်လည်ကုစားပေးလျော်မှု (Reparation) […]
Burma Campaign UK is urging UN Secretary General António Guterres to travel to Bangladesh to negotiate the opening of aid and trade routes into Rakhine State, Burma. In November the United Nations Development Programme warned of impending famine in Rakhine State. The aid and trade embargo imposed by the Burmese military on areas of Rakhine […]
Trafficking of women from throughout Burma to be forced brides in China This report, based on interviews with 187 female trafficking survivors assisted by KWAT between 2019 and 2023, reveals that the demand for brides continues to be the main factor fuelling trafficking of women from Burma to China, and that women from throughout Burma […]
Recommendations to ASEAN and Its Member States (1) Move beyond the 5PC to achieve a Myanmar people-led and people-centered solution to the crisis in Myanmar. ASEAN’s “Myanmar-owned and -led” approach must be backed by genuine political will that aligns with and supports the collective aspirations of the people of Myanmar. (2) Cease all pressure on […]
ASEAN must support Myanmar federal democracy building and justice seeking Myanmar civil society urges ASEAN to pursue Myanmar people-led solution to crisis Today, the Myanmar National Organizing Committee for ACSC/APF (Myanmar NOC) launched the Civil Society Position Paper Addressing ASEAN’s Goal of a “Myanmar-Owned and -Led Solution,” endorsed by 260 civil society organizations. The Position Paper provides a […]
Operation 1027 was a coordinated military attack against the junta on October 27th, 2023. It was carried out by the Northern Brotherhood, which includes the Arakan Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army. Several months later, the Three Brotherhood Alliance held three meetings to negotiate with China on January 11 […]
10 December 2024 On Human Rights Day, the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) releases its latest briefing paper, “Attacks from the Air,” which includes cases of airstrikes throughout the month of November 2024 in Kachin, Karenni and Shan States. ND-Burma condemns all forms of violence against innocent people and calls for immediate […]
This briefing paper by the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) will analyze the impact of the airstrikes perpetrated against innocent civilians by the military junta in Northern Shan State, Kachin State and Karenni State throughout November 2024. Desk research compiled by ND-Burma in English and Burmese, combined with data from our members, found twenty-five […]