ေျမသိမ္းတိုက္ပြဲ

4,000 local people and representatives of civil society organizations and networks launched a protest against copper mining in Latpantaung area on 5 September 2012 and called for the full termination of the mining project. Protesters included farmers whose lands have been confiscated […]

၅.၉.၂၀၁၂ ရက္ေန႕ ေျမသိမ္းတိုက္ပြဲ (၁၃) ရက္ေန႕ေျမာက္ေန႕တြင္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားမွ မံုရြာ-ပုသိမ္လမ္းဆံု၌ ေန႕လည္ (၁၁း၀၀) နာရီမွ စတင္ကာ ဆႏၵျပမႈမ်ားကို စတင္ခဲ့ျပီး လက္ပန္ေတာင္းေတာင္ ေၾကးနီစီမံကိန္း လံုးဝရပ္ဆိုင္းရန္ ဆႏၵကို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ လက္ပန္ေတာင္းေတာင္ ေဒသတြင္ လက္ပန္ေတာင္းေတာင္ ေၾကးနီစီမံကိန္းေၾကာင့္ […]

ေကအဲန္ယူ-ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရံုး၏ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးဆိုင္ရာ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရး တတိယခရီးစဥ္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

ေကအဲန္ယူ-ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရံုးဘက္မွ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴး ေနာ္စီဖိုးရာစိန္ႏွင့္ ေကအဲန္အယ္လ္ေအ တြဲဘက္စစ္ေရးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ စရွာတုေဝၚ ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၉) ဦးႏွင့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အစုိးရတို႕၏ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအဆင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို […]

Open Letter to Norwegian Ambassador Katja Nordgaard on Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI) Consultation

Dear Ambassador Nordgaard,

At the outset, we state that we welcome Norway’s MPSI. We view such initiative to have the potential of furthering peace processes, especially in the ethnic areas. As such, consider us as peace building actors and we are willing to provide our support where necessary.

However, we feel Norway is unable to demonstrate a good practice for MPSI consultations […]

Burma: Overturn 6 Month Sentence of Human Rights Defender and Lawyer Saw Kyaw Kyaw Min

AAPP is calling on the U Thein Sein administration in Burma to overturn the 6 month sentence of Saw Kyaw Kyaw Min: a human rights defender, lawyer for political prisoners, and former leading member of the National League for Democracy – Youth (NLD-Youth) […]

Statement of Kachin Organizations to Halt the Burmese Government Troops Offensive Against KIO/KIA and Human Rights Abuses of Kachin Civilians

For more than a year over 90,000 Kachin civilian have been displaced as a result of the Government troops severe fighting against the Kachin Independent Army (KIA). This continues to occur despite the Kachin people and the people of Burma sending several petition letters to halt the Government’s military offensive […]

Human Rights Violations Continue in Burma’s Karen State Despite Announcements of Political Reforms

Even as Burma’s central government institutes political reforms, the Burmese army continues to routinely violate the human rights of ethnic minorities in Karen State, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) reported today, citing findings from a field survey conducted earlier this year […]

Statement on the Burmese Government’s Postponement of the Third Round of Negotiations with the Karen National Union

The Karen National Union (KNU) announces that the Government of Burma has unilaterally postponed the third round of ceasefire negotiations between the Parties, previously scheduled for August 27th to 29th in the City of Pa’an in Karen State. The Government’s representatives […]

BURMA: Abused Child Worker Who Seeks Justice Suffers Further Abuse in Courtroom

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) recently brought you details of a case in which police conspired with the employer of a young girl who allegedly abused and murdered her to cover up the facts (AHRC-UAC-136-2012). In this Urgent Appeal […]

Shan Community Groups: Don’t Push Refugees Back into Active War Zone

Shan community groups are gravely concerned about imminent repatriation of over 500 refugees from a camp on the northern Thai border into an area of active conflict.

Today, the Norwegian Refugee Council, contracted under the Norwegian-led “Myanmar Peace Support Initiative,” will begin house-to-house surveys of refugees in Koung Jor camp, northern Chiang Mai province, about their willingness to return […]

Urgent Action: Doctor Held Incommunicado in Myanmar

Dr Tun Aung was arrested on 11 June in Rakhine state, western Myanmar and has been held in incommunicado detention since. He is a practicing medical doctor and the chairman of the Islamic Religious Affairs Council in Maungdaw. He suffers from […]