Kachin National Organization (KNO) Condemns Rape and Murder of Two Kachin Teachers and Calls for Inqury on Crime against Humanity

KNO strongly condemned the rape and brutal murder of Maran Lu Ra (20 years old) and Tangbau Hkawn Nan Tsin (21 years old), who were volunteer teachers of the Kachin Baptist Convention’s Education Ministry Program. They were gang-raped, severely tortured and murdered in Kawng-Hka village, Nam Tau, Mung Mau district in Northern Shan State by Burma Army soldiers from 503 Light Infantry Regiment, commanded by Major Aung Soe Myin, stationed at the village since 17th January 2015. […]

Myanmar: Investigate Alleged Rape and Killing of Two Kachin Women

The Myanmar authorities must ensure that a prompt, independent, impartial and effective investigation into the killing and alleged rape of two young Kachin women is carried out. Failure to investigate these allegations and hold those responsible to account would deny the victims and their families justice and contribute to an ongoing climate of impunity for rape and other crimes of sexual violence, in particular in conflict-affected and ethnic minority areas. […]

2 Kachin teachers brutally raped and killed by Burmese Army

Burma Campaign UK has confirmed reports that two ethnic Kachin teachers were raped by Burmese Army soldiers overnight on 19th/20th January.

Burma Campaign UK is calling on the British government to implement provisions in its Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and dispatch a team of experts to Burma to investigate the case. Burma Campaign UK is also calling on the British government to halt its training of the Burmese Army, which is currently taking place […]

Myanmar: Freedom for All Prisoners of Conscience Must Follow Activist’s Release

The release of peaceful activist Dr Tun Aung, jailed simply for trying to prevent communal violence, is a positive step, but authorities in Myanmar should also free the dozens of other prisoners of conscience still behind bars, Amnesty International said […]

Ethnic Communities: Salween Dams are Fueling War and Must be stopped

Community representatives from Shan, Karenni, Karen and Mon States are handing a petition today to the Myanmar Ministry of Electric Power, and to the Chinese and Thai Embassies in Yangon, urging an immediate halt to dam projects on the Salween River, which are fuelling war and violating the rights of local peoples […]

UN Myanmar Rights Expert: Backtracking on Democratic Space Gains Momentum in Election Year

YANGON / GENEVA (19 January 2015) – “Valuable gains made in the area of freedom of expression and assembly risk being lost,” United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee said at the end of her ten-day official visit* to the country. “Indeed, there are signs that since my last visit, restrictions and harassment on civil society and the media may have worsened.” […]

UN Myanmar Rights Expert: Backtracking on Democratic Space Gains Momentum in Election Year

YANGON / GENEVA – “Valuable gains made in the area of freedom of expression and assembly risk being lost,” United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee said at the end of her ten-day official visit* to the country. “Indeed, there are signs that since my last visit, restrictions and harassment on civil society and the media may have worsened.” […]

Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar

Today is the final day of my second official visit to Myanmar as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. It has been a visit rich in its diversity, geography, viewpoints and experiences. I have engaged with government officials, parliamentarians, religious and community leaders, civil society representatives, victims of human rights violations and members of the international community. My discussions have been frank, open, sometimes passionate but always welcoming. I am feeling more and more a part of this country and am privileged to be accompanying the people of Myanmar on this journey of reform towards greater enjoyment of human rights. My visit would not have been possible without the genuine cooperation of the Government of Myanmar and the committed support of the United Nations Country Team. I wish to express my sincere appreciation to both organisations […]

ဒုတိယအၾကိမ္ လုပ္ငန္းညွိႏိႈင္းအစည္းအေ၀း သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

ေကာ္မတီ၏ ၂၀၁၄ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း လုပ္ငန္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ားကိုျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ရန္ႏွင့္ ၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ ဦးစားေပး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားကိုခ်မွတ္ႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္လည္းေကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ဒီမိုကေရစီအသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းမႈႏွင့္ ျပည္တြင္း ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဖာ္ေဆာင္မႈလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားတြင္ ခ်င္းတိုင္းရင္းသားတို႔၏ ပါ၀င္မႈအခန္းက႑ကို ေဆြးေႏြးသံုးသပ္ႏိုင္ရန္ အတြက္လည္းေကာင္း ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံ ဘံုသေဘာတူညီခ်က္မ်ားအေကာင္အထည္ေဖၚေရး ေပါင္းစပ္ညွိႏိႈင္းမႈ ေကာ္မတီ၏ ဒုတိယအၾကိမ္ လုပ္ငန္းညွိႏိႈင္းအစည္းအေ၀းကို ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၁၄-၁၆ ရက္မ်ားအတြင္း ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္၊ ဟားခါးၿမိဳ႕၌ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည္။ ၎အစည္းအေ၀းသုိ႔ ေကာ္မတီ၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္ အထူးဖိတ္ၾကားသည့္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား စုစုေပါင္း(၅၀)ဦး တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ေကာ္မတီ၏ ၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ဦးစားေပးအေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္မည့္လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားႏွင့္ သက္ဆုိင္ေသာ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ (၆၁)ခ်က္ကုိ ခ်မွတ္ႏုိင္ခဲ့သည္။

Burma and the U.S. Conclude Successful Second Human Rights Dialogue

1. Myanmar and the United States held the second Myanmar-U.S. Human Rights Dialogue in Nay Pyi Taw January 14-15 to discuss and exchange best practices in the field of human rights of both parties, and also on ongoing efforts to further promote and protect human rights in Myanmar […]