The Pressure is Working

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There has just been a success in our campaign to help end rape and sexual violence by the Burmese Army.

The Burmese government has just become the 150th country to sign the Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. The declaration contains practical and political commitments to end impunity, promote accountability, and provide justice and safety for victims of sexual violence in conflicts […]

Statement by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand on the Third Anniversary of the Renewed Conflict in Kachin State

KWAT is very concerned at the recent escalation of attacks by the Burma Army in southern Kachin and northern Shan State, which have caused fresh displacement and suffering. These systematic operations to seize control of key trade routes and economic zones along the China-Burma border throw strong doubt on the government’s sincerity towards the peace process […]

အမ်ဴိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၏ ပထမအႀကိမ္ဗဟိုေကာ္မတီ တတိယအႀကိမ္ပုံမွန္အစည္းအေ၀း ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္

Burma Signing Sexual Violence Declaration Should not Just be PR Exercise

Burma Campaign UK today called on the government of Burma to immediately publish what concrete actions it will take, within a specific timeframe, to actually implement the ‘Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict’, which it has finally signed […]

New Report Card Scores US Companies Investing in Burma

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, US Campaign for Burma (USCB) released the first edition of its Report Card: US Companies Investing in Burma. The Report Card analyzes whether US companies are transparently complying with the US State Department’s Responsible Investment Reporting Requirements, conducting due diligence, and responsibly managing their investments on the ground […]

Burma: Election Body Intimidating Opposition

Burma’s electoral commission should immediately cease threatening and intimidating the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, Human Rights Watch said. The electoral commission should also drop proposals that would set limits on future election campaigning, and President Thein Sein and the Burmese government should publicly reject such proposals […]

Displaced Villagers File Complaint Regarding Japan’s Investment in Myanmar’s Thilawa Special Economic Zone

Tokyo, Japan – Three residents from the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) area near Yangon, Myanmar, delivered an Objection to the Examiner for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) today in Tokyo. It is the first known formal complaint filed under JICA’s Objection Procedures since the restructuring of JICA in 2008. One of the examiners, Dr. Sachihiko Harashina met the villagers in person to receive the complaint […]

Opium Cultivation Bounces Back: TNI Report Shows Dramatic Failure of ASEAN’s ‘Drug Free’ Strategy

Bouncing Back – Relapse in the Golden Triangle, a new in-depth report by the Transnational Institute (TNI) launched in Yangon, Burma/Myanmar, on Monday June 2, highlights the profound changes in the illicit drugs market in the Golden Triangle – Burma, Thailand and Laos – and neighbouring India and China over the past five years. The report outlines the causes and consequences of a doubling of opium cultivation after a decade of decline. It argues that repressive drug control policies have failed to reduce consumption and production and instead led to more dangerous forms of drug use, growing human rights abuses and impoverishment. It finally highlights the workable alternatives that offer a better prospect for addressing drug-related problems in Southeast Asia. […]

(၁၀)ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား စည္းလံုးညီၫႊတ္ေရး ႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္ပြဲ၏ သေဘာထား ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

(၁၀)ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားစည္းလံုးညီၫႊတ္ေရး ႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္ပြဲကို ၂၀၁၄ခုႏွစ္၊ ေမလ ၂၈ရက္မွ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔အထိ ကရင့္ေတာ္လွန္ေရး နယ္ေျမေလး၀ါး(ေခၚ)ေလာ္ခီးလာတြင္ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ က်င္းပခဲ့သည္။ထိုႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္ပြဲသို႔ ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပရွိ ကရင္လူထုအေျချပဳအဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ ကရင္ဘာသာေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ ကရင္လူငယ္ႏွင့္ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား၊ ကရင့္ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား၊ ကရင္လက္နက္ကုိင္အဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား စသည့္ကရင္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္း (၆၆)ဖဲြ႔ႏွင့္ တသီးပုဂၢလ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား၊ ေလ့လာသူမ်ား အပါအ၀င္ စုစုေပါင္း (၂၄၆)ဦး တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္ […]

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ား ကြန္ဂရက္(SYCB) သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ား ကြန္ဂရက္(SYCB) မွ ၂၈-၂၉ ေမလ ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ကမကထျပဳ စီစဥ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေသာ ပဥၥမ အၾကိမ္ေျမာက္ ေဒသတြင္း ဆိုင္ရာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူငယ္ မ်ား ေတြ႕ဆံုႏွီးေႏွာ ဖလွယ္ပြဲ တြင္ ျပည္တြင္းျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး၊ မဟာစီမံကိန္းမ်ား၊ ပညာေရး၊ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံုအေျခခံ ဥပေဒ ကိစၥရပ္မ်ားႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ လက္ရွိ အေျခ အေနႏွင့္၊ မိမိတို႕ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၏ အျမင္ သေဘာထားမ်ား၊ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား ကို ေဆြးေႏြး ဖလွယ္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ ထို႕ေနာက္ အနာဂတ္တြင္ မိမိအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၏ မူဝါဒမ်ားႏွင့္အညီ လက္တြဲ ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားရန္ သေဘာတူညီပါသည္ […]