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...
Update on the Human Rights Situation in Burma (January – June 2018)
ND-Burma’s bi-annual report finds human rights situation deteriorating across the country
ND-Burma documented 45 cases of human rights violations across four states and regions over...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
