WCRP releases “Cracks in the Silence: Sexual violence against children and challenges to accessing justice in Mon State and Mon areas of southeast Burma”

March 23, 2017

Today HURFOM’s Women and Child Rights Project (WCRP) releases their latest report, “Cracks in the Silence: Sexual violence against children and challenges to accessing justice in Mon State and Mon areas of southeast Burma.”Report in English | Burmese

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ND-Burma’s 31st Network Meeting

5-7 January 2017: ND-Burma held its 31st Network Meeting in Mae Sot. All ND-Burma member organizations were present, including the Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS), the Pa-Oh Youth Organization (PYO), Human Rights Defenders and Promoters (HRDP) and the Human Rights Documentation Network (HRDN).

At the meeting we evaluated the decisions taken at the previous Network meeting and reviewed what had thus far been implemented. We also discussed future activities and members proposed a number of research and advocacy initiatives.

Progressive Voice (previously Burma Partnership) also joined and discussed ways it could collaborate with ND-Burma and its members.

REPORT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN BURMA [January to December 2016]

  • 2016 has seen a dramatic increase in the number of human rights violations with 154 being recorded over the course of the year. This is almost double the number of Human rights violations recorded throughout 2015 (84 ).
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ND-Burma 2016 report finds dramatic increase in human rights violations

8 February 2017
For Immediate Press Release

ND-Burma today releases its 2016 report on the human rights situation in Burma/Myanmar, which shows a dramatic increase Read more

Inconvenient truths: How journalists in Burma continue to be silenced

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

In December 2016, investigative reporter Ko Soe Moe Tun was found dead at the side of a road in Monywa, north-west of Mandalay. Read more

Pawns in their game: the military’s blocking of aid to IDPs in Kachin and northern Shan State

“They have received no aid since October and have barely any food left.They are trying to cook their tiny amounts of rice with rotten pumpkin leaves they find in the jungle.” Read more