The Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma Calls for Accountability in Ta’ang Rape Case For Immediate Release 20 July 2020: On 17 June 2020, the Network for Human Rights Documentation Burma (ND-Burma) was made aware by Ta’ang civil society organizations that a young girl from northern Shan state was sexually exploited and assaulted by the Restoration […]
Executive Summary This submission by the Network for Human Rights Documentation Burma (ND-Burma) addresses the peace process and armed conflict in Myanmar. Using case-studies from our reports and briefing papers with documentation supported by our members, the sections provide situational context to the security concerns expressed by civilians and civil-society. The human rights situation in […]
Human Rights Foundation of Monland For Immediate Release HURFOM, 15 July 2020: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in remote communities in southeast Burma/Myanmar are struggling to survive. COVID-19-related restrictions on the freedom of movement in these areas—often under the administration of multiple ethnic armed organizations (EAOs)—make it almost impossible for villagers to access livelihoods, generating looming food shortages, exacerbated by the start […]
AASYC Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to the 37th Session of the Human Rights Council. The report titlled Human Rights Violations in the Armed Conflicts in Arakan, Burma/Myanmar. The report mainly addresses how Myanmar Government and Myanmar Army (Tatmataw) commited the human rights violations towards the civilians in Arakan violating the fundamental […]
Conflict Continues Amid the Pandemic, Fueling Insecurity and Unrest in Burma COVID-19 has continued to further expose the quickly deteriorating human rights situation in Burma. The escalation of fighting amid the pandemic has allowed more violations to take place with impunity. This month, conflict escalated in Rakhine State as several human rights groups released documentation […]
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June 2020 Achieve Justice by Combating Impunity On this International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Women’s League of Burma (WLB), Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma), Assistance Association of Political Prisoners (AAPP), Vimutti Women’s Organization (VWO) and Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) […]
In 2017, soldiers in northern Shan state detained a Kachin man in his 50s who had been displaced by fighting and was working as an overnight guard at a tea factory. They accused him and five others from the factory of being Kachin Independence Army soldiers. Then they blindfolded him and took him to an […]
Joint Statement, 19 June 2020 On World Refugee Day, end the ongoing armed conflict, human rights violations and humanitarian crises in Myanmar Ahead of 20 June, 2020 World Refugee Day, we the 123 undersigned organizations call for an immediate end to the ongoing armed conflict, human rights violations and humanitarian crises in ethnic areas and […]