Twenty airstrikes were reportedly carried out on the Karen National Union (KNU) Brigade 7 headquarters in the state capital Hpa-An District on Sunday. The KNU headquarters is located on the Myanmar-Thailand border opposite Tha Song Yang District of Tak Province. A resident told DVB that they counted 25 airstrikes with some bombs remaining unexploded. Initial […]
Guest contributor David Scott Mathieson In what has to be one of the most damning headlines so far this year, the U.N. admitted its written output of activities doesn’t amount to much. “UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read”, says a headline in Reuters published on Aug. 2. The U.N. is strapped […]
A human rights group called the Women’s Organization of Political Prisoners stated on Sunday that student activist Wutyi Aung, 25, died inside of Insein Prison in Yangon due to a lack of medical treatment for her condition on Sunday. A source close to the family told DVB on the condition of anonymity that Wutyi Aung […]
24 June 2025 Statement attributable to Jorge Moreira da Silva, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNOPS Executive Director, on visiting Myanmar I have just completed a visit to Myanmar, where communities are still reeling from the severe earthquakes in March, which compounded the existing challenges of conflict, displacement, and severe humanitarian needs. The earthquakes – Myanmar’s strongest in […]
Joint Statement on World Refugee Day 20 June 2025 Support Myanmar’s displaced communities through border-based aid and legal protection – Stop the Myanmar military junta’s atrocities fueling mass displacement On the occasion of World Refugee Day, we call on the United Nations (UN), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Myanmar’s neighboring countries, and the […]
Mizzima Heavy monsoon rains and runoff from nearby hills have submerged an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp with more than 200 households in Ponngyun Township, Rakhine State, displacing over 1,000 people and prompting urgent appeals for emergency assistance. Flooding began on 16 June following continuous rain, and by 18 June, water levels had risen significantly […]
Justice For Myanmar and Info Birmanie welcome move and call on Airbus to use leverage from its continued business in China to end the supply of arms to the Myanmar military Justice For Myanmar and Info Birmanie welcome Airbus’ decision to divest from AviChina Industry & Technology Company Limited (AviChina), in which it was the […]
လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့်ရာဇဝတ်မှု (CAH) ကို ကျူးလွန်ခြင်း သည် ကြီးလေးသည့် နိုင်ငံတကာရာ ဇဝတ်မှုကို ကျူးလွန်ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ ကြီးလေးသော နိုင်ငံတကာရာဇ၀တ်မှုဆိုသည်မှာ စစ်ရာဇ၀တ်မှု၊ လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရာဇဝတ်မှု၊ လူမျိုးပြုန်းစေမှု အပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံတကာလူ့အခွင့်အရေးဥပဒေနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေများကို ပြင်းထန်စွာ ချိုးဖောက်သည့် ပြစ်မှုများ ဖြစ်သည်။ လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရာဇ၀တ်မှုများတွင် လူသတ်မှု၊ နှိပ်စက်ညှဉ်းပန်းမှု၊ မုဒိမ်းမှု၊ လိင်ပိုင်း ဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ဂျင်ဒါအခြေပြု ရာဇ၀တ်မှုများ၊ နိုင်ငံတွင်းမှ နှင်ထုတ်ခြင်းနှင့် အတင်းအကြပ်လွှဲ ပြောင်းခြင်း၊ သို့မဟုတ် အရပ်သားများအပေါ် ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့် သို့မဟုတ် စနစ်တကျ ကျုးလွန် သည့် ရာဇ၀တ်မှုများ ပါဝင်သည်။ ကျူးလွန်မှုဖြစ်ပွားသည့် နယ်မြေအကျယ်အဝန်း၊ အချိန်အပိုင်းအခြားနှင့် ပစ်မှတ်ထားခံရသူ အရေအတွက်တို့သည် […]
The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) strongly condemns the ongoing airstrikes being carried out against innocent civilians by the military junta. In targeted areas of Southeastern Burma, including Mon State, Karen State, and the Tanintharyi Region, the Burmese Army has frequently deployed airstrikes and ground assaults that have deliberately aimed to instill fear and […]
The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma Releases Documentation in Darkness: An Overview of the Human Rights Situation in Burma January – December 2024 4th June 2025 For Immediate Release The latest report by the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma), ‘Documentation in Darkness,’ presents an overview of the targeted assaults and attacks committed against […]