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ေဘာကထာ ေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္စီမံကိန္းအေပၚ IKO ၏ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

၁။ ၈/၀၂/၂၀၁၆ ရက္ေန႔ ေဘာကထာေခ်ာင္း ေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္စီမံကိန္းႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဗမာအစိုးရ လွ်ပ္စစ္စြမ္း အား စီမံေရးဦးစီးဌာနႏွင့္ KNU သူးေလကုမၸဏီလီမီတက္တို႔မွ MOU နားလည္မႈစာခၽြန္လႊာ လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိး လိုက္ျခင္းအေပၚ ကရင္အရပ္ဖက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ ကရင္ျပည္သူလူထုမ်ားမွ ေ၀ဖန္မႈမ်ားရွိခဲ့သလို KNU ထိပ္ပိုင္း ေခါင္းေဆာင္အတြင္းမွလည္း မေျပမလည္ေျပာဆိုသံမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚလာခဲ့သည္ […]

March 12, 2016  •  By International Karen Organization  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

PSLF Statement on Myanmar Tatmadaw’s Militarist Act of Targeting Ta’ang Civilian Populations with Intention of Escalating Offensive

The Palaung State Liberation Front strongly condemns the targeting of innocent civilians by Myanmar Tatmadaw in its attacks, with the intention of escalating offensives, in Kyaukme, Momeik, Mogok, Namtsan, Manton, Namtu, Namkham, Kutkai etc. of the Ta’ang Region […]

March 11, 2016  •  By Palaung State Liberation Front  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar: End Relentless Crackdown on Student Protesters

One year after police violently dispersed largely peaceful student protests in Myanmar, the authorities continue their relentless crackdown on student activists and anyone associated with their movement […]

March 10, 2016  •  By Amnesty International  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Sexual Violence Against Ethnic Minority Women Must Be Addressed at the UN Human Rights Council

[Geneva – 8 March, 2016] Today on International Women’s Day, Burma Partnership and Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) call on permanent representatives of member and observer states of the United Nations Human Rights Council to seriously address human rights concerns in Burma/Myanmar, including the ongoing sexual violence against ethnic and religious minorities […]

March 8, 2016  •  By Burma Partnership and FORUM-ASIA  •  Read more ➤

Karen Women’s Organization International Women’s Day Pledge for Parity – A Call for Action

On this International Women’s Day 2016, KWO recognizes and pays tribute to all women around the world who dedicate their lives to fighting for women’s human rights, equality, justice and women’s participation in decision making at all levels […]

March 8, 2016  •  By Karen Women's Organization  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

110 High Profile Women Stand with the Women of Burma to End Rape and Sexual Violence

On International Women’s Day, 110 high profile women, including Dame Judi Dench, Annie Lennox, Jo Brand, Gillian Anderson, Imelda Staunton, Julie Walters and Zoë Wanamaker, are standing with the women of Burma to end rape and sexual violence […]

March 8, 2016  •  By Burma Campaign UK  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement of Kachin people on “Natural Resource Governance in Kachin State”

On March 1, 2016, 103 leaders of Kachin State from 61 organizations from civil society organizations, political parties, and religion organizations met at Myitkyina, Kachin State to discuss “Natural Resource Governance in Kachin State”. The following statements were agreed collectively at the forum […]

March 7, 2016  •  By 54 Civil Society Organizations  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Petition Letter to His Excellency British Prime Minister David Cameron

Firstly, we would like to extend our best wishes to Your Excellency and members of
government of the United Kingdom. We are members of civil society based organizations of
Burma/Myanmar, and we have the honor to submit our appeal letter to Your Excellency, with
much reverence […]

March 7, 2016  •  By All Arakan Students' & Youths' Congress, Arakan Renaissance Generation, Arakan Youths Association of University, Arakan Students' Union, Rakhine Women Network and Rakhaing Womens' Union  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Press Statement by Arakan Rohingya Union

Rohingya Union (ARU) wholeheartedly welcomes the US House Resolution Calling for Human Rights, Democratic Reforms, and timely and peaceful transition of Government in Burma […]

March 6, 2016  •  By Arakan Rohingya Union  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Gold Mining Companies Try to Buy Silence of Villagers Impacted by Toxic Waste in eastern Shan State

The Shan State Farmers’ Network (SSFN) and the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) deplore renewed attempts by gold mining companies to buy the silence of villagers impacted by toxic mining waste in eastern Shan State, instead of responding to their demands to stop mining and restore their lands […]

March 3, 2016  •  By Shan Human Rights Foundation and Shan State Farmers' Network  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤