In 2016 ethnic conflict has intensified in many areas of Burma and has seen an increase in human rights violations (HRVs) perpetrated by both the Burma Army and Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) […]
August 24, 2016 • By Network for Human Rights Documentation • Tags: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, Human Rights, Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma • Read more ➤
We are strongly opposed to any dams on the free-flowing Salween River, a vital artery sustaining millions of ethnic people in eastern Burma. Any blockage to its mighty flow would have far-reaching environmental and social impacts […]
August 23, 2016 • By Action for Shan State Rivers • Tags: Action for Shan State Rivers, Business and Human Rights, Dams, National League for Democracy, Natural Resources • Read more ➤
In 2015, peaceful elections ended more than 50 years of military-controlled government in Burma, yet the new government faces myriad human rights chal-lenges. Throughout the year, Burma’s government and non-state actors continued to violate religious freedom; these violations became a defining element of the campaign season […]
August 15, 2016 • By United States Commission on International Religious Freedom • Tags: Arakan State, Freedom of Religion, International Religious Freedom Act, Laws, Rohingya Muslims, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom • Read more ➤
လတ္တေလာကာလ ျမန္မာ့အေရးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္လွ်င္ ဒီမိုကေရစီျပဳျပင္ ေျပာင္းလဲေရး၊ ၂၀၁၅ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (NLD) ဦးေဆာင္ေသာအစိုးရ၏ အနာဂတ္တို႔ အေပၚသာ အာရံုစိုက္မႈမ်ားေနၿပီး အလြန္နက္နဲေသာ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈ အက်ပ္အတည္း ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေရွ႕ေတာင္ပိုင္းမွ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူနည္းစု အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းတို႔၏ ဆက္လက္စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္ေနရမႈမ်ားအား အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ လ်စ္လ်ဴ႐ႈထားၾကသည္ […]
August 12, 2016 • By Burma Link, Burma Partnership and Human Rights Foundation of Monland • Tags: Burma Link, Burma Partnership, Humanitarian Aid, Kachin State, Karen State, Mon's IDPs, National League for Democracy, Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, Refugees in Thai-Burma Border, Shan State • Read more ➤
Recently, much attention surrounding Burma has focused on the democratic reform, 2015 elections and the future of the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led Government, whilst a profound humanitarian crisis and continuing concerns of the ethnic minority communities in the southeast have been largely ignored […]
August 12, 2016 • By Burma Link, Burma Partnership and Human Rights Foundation of Monland • Tags: Burma Link, Burma Partnership, Human Rights Foundation of Monland, Humanitarian Aid, Karen State, Mon State, Mon's IDPs, National League for Democracy, Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, Refugees in Thai-Burma Border, Shan State • Read more ➤
In Karenni State, the people and their ancestors have traditionally depended on agricultural land for their livelihood […]
August 11, 2016 • By Karenni Social Development Center • Tags: Business and Human Rights, Karenni Social Development Center, Karenni State, Land Confiscation, Military Regime • Read more ➤
The constitution guarantees every citizen “the right to freely profess and practice religion subject to public order, morality or health and to the other provisions of this Constitution.” The government adopted a package of four laws that many local and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) said were an infringement on religious freedom and other basic rights […]
August 10, 2016 • By US Department of State • Tags: 1982 Citizenship Law, Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Religion, Human Rights, US Department of State • Read more ➤