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Statement by KWAT on the 4th Anniversary of Renewal of war in Kachin Areas
The conflict situation in northern Burma has worsened during 2015. Despite the Burmese government’s claims to be promoting peace, they have continued their military build-up in Kachin and northern Shan State, launching large-scale offensives, including aerial bombings, which are devastating ethnic communities […]
• • •Physicians for Human Rights: Kachin Conflict in Burma Enters Fifth Year
This week’s four-year anniversary of the breakdown of a ceasefire between the Kachin Independent Army and the Burmese Army, which had previously held for nearly two decades, renews attention on violence against ethnic minorities in Burma. The end to the ceasefire was the beginning of yet another onslaught of government-initiated human rights violations against Kachin, Shan, and Ta-ang civilians in northern Burma, violations that persist to this day. While attention has recently been focused on the plight of the Muslim Rohingya, who are fleeing the country to escape persecution, other groups have also been victims of war crimes and other human rights abuses over the past four years […]
• • •56 Solidarity Groups Worldwide Call for an Immediate Halt to All Military Offensives in Northern Burma/Myanmar and Unhindered Provision of Aid to Hundreds of Thousands of IDPs
(8 June 2015) On the fourth anniversary of the renewed war in Kachin State, 56 groups worldwide issued a statement in solidarity with the Kachin people by calling on the Burma Army to immediately halt all offensives in Kachin and northern Shan States and for the Burma/Myanmar Government to allow humanitarian agencies immediate and unhindered access to all internally displaced persons (IDPs) affected by the ongoing conflict […]
• • •International Investigation Needed into Human Rights Violations Against Burma’s Rohingya
Monday 8th June marks the third anniversary of a new wave of large-scale violence against Burma’s Rohingya ethnic minority. The violence left hundreds dead and displaced more than 140,000 people […]
• • •One Year on from Burma Signing Sexual Violence Declaration – No Steps Taken on Implementation
The Declaration contained twelve commitments to prevent sexual violence in conflict. The Burmese government is taking no significant action on any of these commitments, and is actively violating all nine of the commitments which relate to action they should be taking domestically, including on assistance and care to survivors, investigations, police and army doctrine in accordance with international law, and supporting and protecting civil society, women’s groups and human rights defenders […]
• • •UN News Centre: UN Refugee Agency Seeks $13 Million to Beef Up Protections for Boat Arrivals in Southeast Asia
The United Nations refugee agency today announced that it is seeking $13 million to help with the needs of new boat arrivals to countries in Southeast Asia, where thousands of refugees and migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh have been risking their lives by crossing the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea […]
• • •Burmese Democracy Activist Sentenced to Two Years Imprisonment on Defamation Charges
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is concerned at reports that Htin Lin Oo, the former information officer of the National League for Democracy (NLD), has been handed a two-year prison sentence following his conviction on charges of insulting religion […]
• • •Andaman Sea Humanitarian Crisis Demands Regional Response Centered on Human Rights
Bangkok, Thailand – Representatives of 17 countries who will gather in Bangkok on 29 May to discuss the humanitarian crisis involving thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshis adrift in the Andaman Sea must adopt a regional response that complies with international human rights law and standards, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today […]
• • •Mcconnell Outlines Challenges, Opportunities Facing Burma in 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding Burma […]
• • •ကမၻာ့ပါတ္၀န္းက်င္ေန႕
ႏွစ္စဥ္ႏွစ္တိုင္း ဇြန္လ ၅ ရက္ေန႕ကို ကမၻာ့ပါတ္၀န္းက်င္ေန႕အျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ၿပီး ကမၻာအရပ္ရပ္တြင္ ပါတ္၀န္းက်င္ႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ လႈပ္ရွားမႈအမ်ိဳးမိ်ဳးကို ျပဳလုပ္ေလ့ရွိပါသည္ […]
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