Statement: WLB urges new NLD-led government, and donors, to start afresh with the peace process

WLB urges new NLD-led government, and donors, to start afresh with the peace process The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) is gravely concerned at the recent fighting in northern Shan State between the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), which has displaced over 5,000 civilians and is cleaving ethnic rifts among communities which have co-existed peacefully for generations […]

Statement by the Women’s League of Burma A non-inclusive Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement will not Bring Peace

The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) is gravely concerned that the government’s planned signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on October 15 with only eight armed groups will not lead to peace, but to an escalation of conflict […]

ျ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။ […]

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။ […]

ရွမ္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၏ ပါတီတည္ေထာင္ျခင္း (၂၆)ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

Joint Statement of Karen Women’s Groups in Support of the Reunification of the Kawthoolei Armed Forces (KAF)

The Karen Women’s Organization (KWO), Karen Women’s Empowerment Group (KWEG) and Karen Women’s Union (KWU) welcome the announcement, on October 13th, 2014, of the Karen armed resistance groups coming together under the name of “Kawthoolei Armed Forces (KAF)”. The alliance of 4 Karen armed forces meets the long held desire of Karen people everywhere, especially of Karen women. We believe this is an opportunity for both peace building, and improved co-operation which can help reduce violence against women […]

အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ တည္ေထာင္ျခင္း (၂၆)ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ေန႔ ေၾကညာခ်က္အမွတ္-၁၀ / ၀၉ / ၂၀၁၄

International Peace Day

Hundreds of peace marchers passed four different townships on Sunday, International Peace Day. The peace marchers called for ending war and to restore peace, while singing Peace songs. (Photo: Thaw Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy)

Hundreds Gather in Rangoon to Mark World Peace Day

RANGOON — At several sites in Rangoon on Sunday, hundreds of activists gathered to mark the International Day of Peace and call for an end to conflict in Burma.

A festive mood prevailed at the Women’s Peace March, one of three peace rallies held in the city this weekend, where several hundred women belonging to various women’s organizations showed up wearing blue shirts emblazoned with the peace symbol and a slogan ‘No Women, No Peace.’ […]

ညီညြတ္ေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးမ်ား ဖက္ဒရယ္ေကာင္စီ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုမ်ား၊ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားႏွင့္ လူငယ္အင္အားစုမ်ား ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ၏ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္