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Statement on Consultation Organized by Border-based Civil Society Organisations with the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT)

On November 22-23, 2014, 42 representatives of 25 border-based civil society organisations (CSOs), working on education, health, media, migrant workers’ rights, refugees, the environment, women’s issues and human rights, held a consultation meeting with the NCCT. This was the first such meeting with the NCCT held formally by a broad grouping of border-based CSOs. […]

November 24, 2014  •  By Border-based Civil Society Organisations  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

‘If they had hope, they would speak’: The Ongoing Use of State Sponsored Sexual Violence in Burma’s Ethnic Communities

(Yangon, November 24, 2014) – Burma Army soldiers continue to engage in acts of sexual violence on a widespread scale, and women and human rights defenders in ethnic communities face harassment and persecution, the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) said in a new report published today to coincide with International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. […]

November 24, 2014  •  By Women's League of Burma  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံ ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ား ကြန္ဂရက္၏ အ႒မအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ညီလာခံ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

၁။ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံေက်ာင္းသား လူငယ္မ်ား ကြန္ဂရက္၏ အ႒မႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ညီလာခံကို ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္၊ ႏို၀င္ဘာလ(၂၀) ရက္မွ (၂၂)ရက္ထိ (၃)ရက္တာ ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ တေနရာတြင္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ ခ့ဲသည္။ ညီလာခံသို႔ ကြန္ဂရက္အဖဲြ႕၀င္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း(၁၁)ဖြဲ႕မွ ညီလာခံ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မ်ားႏွင့္ ေလ့လာသူ အပါအ၀င္ စုစုေပါင္း(၃၉)ဦး တက္ေရာက္ ခ့ဲၾကပါသည္။ […]

November 23, 2014  •  By Students and Youth Congress of Burma  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

KIA ဗိုလ္သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းသို႔ ပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈအေပၚ ရခိုင္အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ား အစည္းအရုံး၏ ၀မ္းနည္းေၾကာင္း သ၀ဏ္လႊာ

၂၀၁၄ခုႏွစ္၊ ႏိုဝင္ဘာလ၊ (၁၉)ရက္ေန႕၊ မြန္းလြဲ ၁၂း၃၆ အခ်ိန္တြင္ ဗမာတပ္မေတာ္ ေျချမန္တပ္ရင္း (၃၈၉)တပ္ဖြဲ႕မွ KIO ႀကီးမွဴးဖြင့္လွစ္ေသာ အရာရွိေလာင္း သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းအား(၁၀၅)မမျဖင့္ ပစ္ခတ္ တိုက္ခိုက္မႈေၾကာင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား ဗိုလ္ေလာင္းမ်ား တေနရာတည္း၌ စုပံုက်ဆံုးျခင္းျပင္းထန္ေသာ ထိခိုက္ ဒဏ္ရာရမွဳ မ်ားျဖစ္ရျခင္းတို ့ကိုသိရွိလာရပါသျဖင့္ မိမိတို ့ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား အစည္းအရံုးမွ မ်ားစြာ ၀မ္းနည္းေၾကကြဲ ရပါသည္။ […]

November 21, 2014  •  By Rakhaing Women Union  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

KNU Position Statement on Tatmadaw’s Bombardment with Heavy Weapons on KIO Military Officer Academy

1. We were much saddened on receiving the news that 23 young cadet officers were killed and 20 others wounded, who were attending the KIO Military Academy, due to Myanmar Tatmadaw’s bombardment with heavy weapons on November 19, 2014 […]

November 21, 2014  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤