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Joint Statement: MNHRC Must Take Stand on Extrajudicial Killings of Rakhine Villagers

14 May 2019 By CSO Working Group on MNHRC Reform We, the 24 organizations of the CSO Working Group on MNHRC Reform, call on the Myanmar...

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,...

ND-Burma’s bi-annual report finds intensification of conflict led to continued deterioration of human rights...

18 April 2019 For immediate press release Throughout 2018, ND-Burma found that the human rights situation in Burma continued to deteriorate due to the intensification of...

Report: Human Rights Situation in Burma 2018

The reporting period saw approximately 190 armed clashes, with some 32,000 people becoming newly displaced as a result. At the time of writing, there is...

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...

Newsletter: Seeking Justice in Burma

February 2019 Union Parliament votes in favour of committee to draft amendments to the 2008 Constitution; Continued human rights violations in Rakhine State by Burma...

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...

Estimating Trafficking of Myanmar Women for Forced Marriage and Childbearing in China

In 2017, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Humanitarian Health partnered with the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand to conduct a...

YOU CANNOT IGNORE US: Victims of human rights violations in Burma

(Yangon – 16 October, 2018) Victims of human rights violations desire government reparations and deserve to see justice for what they have suffered, said the...

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...

September briefing