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The Meaning of Land in Myanmar

TNI“Land is like our vein; it is vital for our living. After our land was confiscated, we don’t know what to do for our livelihood,” says a farmer from Kachin State in Myanmar […]

January 28, 2016  •  By Transnational Institute  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ျပည္သူမ်ား၏ ဆႏၵနွင္႔ ကိုုက္ညီစြာ ရပ္ကြက္သိုု႔မဟုုတ္ေက်းရြာအုုပ္စုု အုုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမႈးမ်ားေရြးခ်ယ္တင္ေျမွာက္နိုုင္ေရး စည္းရံုးလႈံ့ေဆာ္ေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ

လႊတ္ေတာ္သက္တမ္းနွင္႔တူညီေသာ လက္ရွိ ရပ္ကြက္သိုု႔မဟုုတ္ ေက်းရြာအုုပ္စုု အုုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမႈးမ်ားသည္ ၂၀၁၆ ခုုနွစ္ ဇႏၷဝါရီလ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ သက္တမ္းကုုန္ဆံုုးမည္ျဖစ္၍ အသစ္ျပန္လည္ေရြးေကာက္မႈမ်ားကိုု ဇႏၷဝါရီလ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔အတြင္း အၿပီးျပဳလုုပ္ေတာ႔မည္ဟု လက္ရွိအစိုးရမွ ထုတ္ျပန္ညႊန္ၾကားထားၿပီ ျဖစ္ပါသည္ […]

January 28, 2016  •  By Action Committee for Democracy Development  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Report and Recommendations of the Session of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA): Report and Recommendations of the Session of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) Geneva, 16-20 November 2015

1.1. In accordance with the Statute (Annex I) of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), the SCA has the mandate to consider and review applications for accreditation, reaccreditation and special or other reviews received by the National Institutions, […]

January 26, 2016  •  By ICC Sub-Committee on Accrediation  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Medical Crisis for Political Prisoners of Letpadan Case

There has been a significant deterioration in the health and well-being of 53 students and supporters who have been detained without bail for nine months at Thayawaddy prison. Their criminal trial has now dragged on for nine months. If convicted, they could face up to ten years in prison […]

January 25, 2016  •  By All Burma Federation of Student Unions, Letpadan Justice Committee and Justice Trust  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

UNFC on NCA and Internal Peace

Burma/Myanmar, after receiving independence on January 4, 1948 from the British colonialists in accordance with the Panlong Agreement, was accompanied by the civil war. Since the rulers of successive eras have tried to end the civil war, in disregard of the Panlong Agreement, they have not met with any success, up to this day, and people of all the nationalities have to continue to suffer the malicious caprices and dreadful consequences of war […]

January 20, 2016  •  By United Nationalities Federal Council  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Justice Delayed, Justice Denied

KWATDespite the so-called democratic transition taking place since 2010, Burma remains constitutionally under the control of the Armed Forces. However, our national democratic icon, democratic forces, some ethnic armed organizations, many NGOs — especially GON¬GOs – and most of the international community are siding with or exercising a policy of appeasement with the power holders, without scrutinizing whether the source of their pow¬er emanates from the genuine will of the various ethnic nationalities and/or indigenous peoples […]

January 19, 2016  •  By Kachin Women's Association-Thailand and Legal Aid Network  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Government Troops Attack Ta’ang Village in Lashio, Killing two Villagers, one Mentally Disabled

On January 4, 2016, Burma’s Independence Day — celebrated with military parades in Naypyidaw and Yangon — government troops attacked a Ta’ang village in Lashio township, northern Shan State, killing two villagers, including one who was mentally disabled […]

January 18, 2016  •  By Shan Human Rights Foundation  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

A Brief NCA History, the NCA’s Flaws and Failings

The efforts of the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) to negotiate a Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with the Burmese/Myanmar government began in November 2013 at the Ethic Armed Organizations Conference in Laiza, Kachin State, where the 16 Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) established their Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) […]

January 14, 2016  •  By Karen National Union (KNU) Vice-President Naw Zipporah Sein  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

No Women, No Peace: Gender Equality, Conflict and Peace in Myanmar

This briefing explores the gender dimensions and gender impact of conflict in Myanmar. Such information is relatively scarce, and there has long been a need for a deeper understanding of the intersections of gender, ethnicity and other identities in peace-building and democratisation […]

January 13, 2016  •  By Transnational Institute  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Finding on Process of Observing General Election 2015 by Association of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters

(1) Brief presentation – Association of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters in cooperation with allied associations had observed the process of election held on 8th November within the regions of Shan, Rakhine, Kayar, Ayarwady, Yangon, Pao and Danu self administrative regions […]

December 21, 2015  •  By Association of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤