Statement of the 10th Congress of Women’s League of Burma
(2 May 2019) - The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) successfully held its 10th Congress from April 22-24, 2019, along the Thai-Burma border, where 70 delegates attended, including representatives from its member organizations, policy board members, secretariat members, advisors, technical...
Statement on the 10th Congress of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
10th March 2019
The 10th Congress of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) was held in a liberated area near the Thai-Burma Border during 25-26 February 2019. 45 KWAT members attended the congress, including staff...
Myanmar: Wold Kachin Congress deplores unjust sentencing of Kachin civil society leaders, calls for...
December 08, 2018
The World Kachin Congress strongly condemns the heinous sentencing of three Kachin civil society leaders to six months in prison and a fine of 500,000 kyat each for defamation of the Burma...
Myanmar: Human trafficking on China border can only be addressed by ending Burma Army...
Statement on Myanmar’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Day
September 13, 2018
On Myanmar’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Day, KWAT urges Burma’s government and the international community to recognize that without an end to Burma Army offensives and war...
Myanmar: International Kachin Community Supports Fact-Finding Mission’s Call to Refer Burma to the ICC
3 September, 2018 – We, the International Kachin Community, welcome the August 27 report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Burma and support its recommendations. The Fact-Finding Mission found evidence of “genocidal...
UN must act urgently on recommendations by the International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar
(Bangkok/Geneva, 27 August 2018) – Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Progressive Voice, Equality Myanmar, Kachin Women’s Association Thailand, and Rohingya Women’s Welfare Society welcome the findings of the Independent International Fact...
The UN Must Establish a Mechanism towards Accountability for Gross and Systematic Human Rights...
28 June 2018
Yesterday at the 38th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Ms. Yanghee Lee, proposed an international mechanism towards accountability...
Enough is enough! World must act to end Burma Army’s devastating war on Kachin
June 9, 2018
Seven years ago today, civil war resumed in the Kachin region. Between June 9, 2011 and April 30, 2018, over 3,800 battles were fought between the Kachin Independence Army and the Burma...
Myanmar: Drop Defamation Cases Against Kachin Anti-War Protest Organizers Trial against three protesters continues...
(YANGON, May 21, 2018) - The Government of Myanmar should immediately and unconditionally drop criminal defamation charges against three ethnic-Kachin human rights defenders, said the Kachin Women’s Association of Thailand (KWAT) and Fortify Rights today. The...
Burma Army commits war crimes against Kachin IDPs: blocking access to refuge, using as...
May 15, 2018
Urgent update by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT)
Contrary to claims by Burma Army commanders that they have not targeted civilians in their recent offensives against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), interviews...
