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Posts Tagged ‘Palaung Women’s Organization’ (19 found)
Joint Statement on Targeting of Ta’ang Civilian Populations and Human Rights Violations by the Myanmar Tatmadaw
We strongly condemn and protest the targeting of Ta’ang civilian populations by the Myanmar Tatmadaw in its attacks, since February 2016, in the Ta’ang Region of Northern Shan State. The Myanmar Tatmadaw has sent in massive military forces, and this has resulted in gross human rights violations […]
• • •ႏုိင္ငံတကာအမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားအေပၚ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ ရပ္တန္႔ေရးေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ အေပၚတအာင္းအမ်ဳိးသမီးအဖဲြ ့အစည္း၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
A Burmese-language statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, highlighting the problems faced by Ta’ang women.
• • •Arm Conflict in Kutkai Township Creates More Internal Displacement
On 18th June 2013, in Kutkai Township, Northern Shan state, there was a conflict between the TNLA Battalion (112) and the Burmese military Infantry Battalion (IB) 145 which resulted in over one hundred villagers fleeing their homes […]
The Burmese Government Must Immediately End Human Rights Violations, Including Violence Against Women, in Palaung Areas
During the past four months, the Burmese Army has been carrying out fierce military offensives in Palaung areas against the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N), Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). The Palaung Women’s Organization and Ta’ang Students and Youth Organization (TSYO) are gravely concerned at the impacts of the fighting on local communities, who have suffered widespread abuses by the Burmese military […]
• • •Update of Human Right Violations by the Burma Army During Offensives in Palaung Areas (March and April 2013)
Since January 2013, Burmese government troops have been carrying out military offensives in Palaung areas against the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N), Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). The Burmese troops have committed widespread human rights violations during these operations […]
• • •Women Bear Burden of Displacement in Palaung War Zones
“The Burden of War,” based on interviews with women in three IDP settlements in Manton and Namkham townships, describes the abuses that drove them from their homes, their perilous journey through the jungle and living conditions in the camps, where over 1,000 IDPs from fifteen villages are sheltering.
• • •ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္မွ ကခ်င္ႏွင့္ ပေလာင္ပူးေပါင္းတပ္ဖြဲ႔အား ထုိးစစ္ဆင္ခဲ့
ရွမ္းျပည္ေျမာက္ပုိင္း၊ ေက်ာက္မဲခရုိင္၊ နမ္ဆန္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဟုိနမ္းရြာအနီးတ၀ုိက္တြင္ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္ ေမလ ၁၅ရက္ေန႔ ညေန၃ နာရီခြဲအခ်ိန္၌ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္ ခလရ တပ္ရင္း (၅၀၂)သည္ ကခ်င္လြတ္လပ္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္(KIA) တပ္ရင္း(၃၄)ႏွင့္ တပ္ရင္းမွဴး မုိင္းဟို၀္ပႅါင္ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ပေလာင္အမ်ဳိးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး တပ္မေတာ္ […]
• • •ခဲႏွင့္သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္ျခင္းကို တားဆီးေပးရန္ ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ား အာဏာပိုင္ထံလက္မွတ္ထိုး ေတာင္းဆို
ျမန္မာ့ျမွားဦးကုမၼဏီ လြယ္လြမ္ျပည္သူ႕စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဦးေအာင္ထြန္းတို႕ ပူးေပါင္း၍ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း မူဆယ္ခရိုင္ နမ့္ဖတ္ကာေဒသတြင္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူလူထုမ်ား မွီတင္းလုပ္ကိုင္စားေသာက္ေနေသာ နမ့္ေမာေခ်ာင္းႏွင့္ နမ့္ခါေခ်င္းအား သတၱဳတြင္းတူးေဖာ္ရန္ စတင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည္ကို […]
• • •PWO Exposes Shocking Levels of Domestic Violence in Burma’s Northern Shan State
“Voices for Change”, a new report released by PWO on Stop Violence against Women Day, claims that 90% of Palaung women are affected by domestic violence. PWO carried out a survey of over 600 people in 4 townships, and found that physical violence is common […]
• • •Voices for Change: Domestic Violence and Gender Discrimination in the Palaung Area
This report documents how women in the Palaung area are affected by domestic violence and gender discrimination. Survey results collected by PWO show that almost all respondents had experienced or seen physical violence within families in their community […]
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