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Beautiful Words, Ugly Actions:The Asian Highway in Karen State, Burma
By Karen Environmental and Social Action Network, Karen Human Rights Group and THWEE Community Development Network • August 26, 2016
This is a joint-report from KHRG, THWEE Community Development Network, and Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN). It details human rights violations surrounding the construction of the Asian Highway in Thin Gan Nyi Naung to Kawkareik, Dooplaya District, which was completed in August 2015. These violations include the lack of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) for affected communities, and armed conflict aggravated by construction, impacting civilians living along the Highway. The main actors identified are the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Myanmar Ministry of Construction (MoC) who are leading the construction. This joint-report also raises concerns about further violations should construction continue as planned from Kawkareik to Eindu, Dooplaya District. The report concludes with detailed recommendations to stakeholders in the Asian Highway Development Project.
Download full report in English here.
အစီရင္ခံစာ ျမန္မာဘာသာကုိ ဤေနရာတြင္ ရယူႏုိင္သည္။
အစီရင္ခံစာ အႏွစ္ခ်ဳပ္ ျမန္မာဘာသာကုိ ဤေနရာတြင္ ရယူႏုိင္သည္။
Tags: Business and Human Rights, Karen Environmental and Social Action Network, Karen Human Rights Group, Karen National Union, Karen State, Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, Peace Process, Special Economic Zone, THWEE Community Development NetworkThis post is in: Displacement, Drugs, Economy, Ethnic Nationalities, Health, Human Rights, Law
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