Letter of Concern from Civil Society Organizations in in Myanmar Affected by Blue Moon Support

This letter is to complain about the support that the Blue Moon Fund is providing to a bilateral dialogue on timber trade and industry investment between the governments of China and Myanmar, which has not included the voices of those who would be most affected, contributing to conflict in these areas, and would ultimately benefit the Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE), an organization on the US US’s Specially Designated Nationals List (SDL) […]

ဇြန္လ ၉ ရက္ေန႕ဟာ ကခ်င္ေဒသ တေက်ာ႕ျပန္စစ္ ၄ ႏွစ္ျပည္႕တဲ႕ ေန႕ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ယခုအခ်ိန္အထိ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ႕မႈအားလံုးကို သံုးသပ္ျပခ်င္ပါတယ္ရွင္႕။

ကခ်င္စစ္ ၁ ႏွစ္ျပည္႕တဲ႕အခ်ိန္ ဇြန္လ ၂၀၁၂ အခ်ိန္က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ထိပ္ပိုင္းမွာ စစ္ျဖစ္ေနတယ္ ဆိုတာကို သိရွိသူနည္းျပီး ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ပံ႕ပိုးမႈဟာ မရွိခဲ႕ပါဘူး။ သတင္းစာနယ္ဇင္းမ်ားကိုလည္း ဆင္ဆာဥပေဒနဲ႕ ပိတ္ပင္ကန္႕သတ္ထားေနဆဲအခ်ိန္ျဖစ္တဲ႕အတြက္ ျပည္သူလူထု သိရွိခဲ႕မႈ နည္းပါးတဲ႕အတြက္ ျပည္သူမွ ျပည္သူတို႕ ကူညီနိုင္ရန္အတြက္ “Heart to Heart” ဆိုတဲ႕ Theme နဲ႕ စစ္ေဘးဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအတြက္ ကူညီႏိုင္ရန္နဲ႕ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားျဖစ္ေပၚေစတဲ႕ အေၾကာင္းရင္းျဖစ္တဲ႕ စစ္ရပ္ဆိုင္းေအာင္ ၀ိုင္း၀န္းကူညီဖို႕အတြက္ ”မိုးယိုေနတဲ႕ အိမ္မွာ မိုးစိုေနတဲ႕ ၾကမ္းျပင္ကိုဘဲ သုတ္ျပီး မေက်နပ္ၾကပါနဲ႕၊ မိုးယိုေနတဲ႕ ေခါင္မိုးကို ဖာရေအာင္။” ဆိုျပီး ဒို႕ရိုးရာစားေသာက္ဆိုင္၊ ေရႊဂံုတိုင္ မွာ လုပ္ခဲ႕ၾကပါတယ္။ တႏွစ္လံုး အလွဴရွင္မ်ားကို ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားနဲ႕ ေတြ႕ဆံုႏိုင္ေအာင္ ကူညီျခင္း။ […]

Letter to President Obama

Dear President Obama,

We are writing on behalf of Kachin Society from Myanmar and abroad, composed of (27) organizations and networks.

We would like to welcome your administration’s courageous step in engaging with the Myanmar government, including your visit in 2012 and your delivery of the important speech at the University of Yangon. It resonates with us to this day. […]

Backlash Grows Against Burma’s National Education Bill

RANGOON — More than 200 civil society organizations have joined a national network of education organizations and a growing chorus of voices in rejecting a draft National Education Bill that looks likely to soon pass into law.

The National Network for Education Reform (NNER), which came out against the bill after it was passed by Parliament in late July, was joined this week by a diverse coalition of groups opposing the legislation because they say it violates “human rights standards.” […]

Kachin Organization’s Statement on Thein Sein Government and Burmese Army Airstrike Attacks Against Kachin Civilians and KIO/KIA

Since June 2011, Burmese troops started war against Kachin Independence Army (KIA) as Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) became a government after 2010 election. Kachin Independence Organization the political wing of KIA sincerely conduct peace talk […]