Burma’s by-elections: Still short of international standards
March 27, 2012A report by Altsean-Burma showing how the by-elections on 1 April cannot be considered free or fair. On 1 April, more than six million Burmese are eligible to go to the polls to elect less than 7% of the total number of seats in the National Parliament …
Analysis of EU Conclusions on Burma
January 24, 2012Burma Briefing No. 17 EU Foreign Ministers met on 23rd January to discuss Burma policy. This Briefing analyses the Council conclusions issued by EU Foreign Ministers. While the decision to suspend the application of the visa ban against senior governme …
Under Siege in Kachin State, Burma
November 30, 2011This report is released by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). It reveals detailing human rights abuses committed by the Burmese Army in Kachin State, Burma. PHR’s investigation reveals that the much‐publicized incremental political changes in central B …
Crimes in Northern Burma
November 28, 2011This report is released by the Norway-based non-governmental organization Partners Relief & Development (Partners). It reveals first-hand testimony and frontline photographs of the increasingly brutal civil war in Burma’s Kachin State, which broke …
Grabbing Land: Destructive Development in the Ta’ang Region
November 22, 2011A new report released by Ta’ang Students and Youth Organization (TSYO) estimates that 63% of farming families have lost their land to confiscation by the Burmese military and their cronies. Despite much-publicized political “reforms” in the country, th …
Displacement and Poverty in South East Burma
October 25, 2011This new report from The Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) finds forced displacement in South East Burma is at its highest level in a decade, rising from an average of 75,000 per year, to 112,000. This excludes an estimated 25,000 in Kachin State …
Still Poisoned
October 25, 2011Opium cultivation surging in constituency of Burma’s new ruling party This report by the Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) exposes a dramatic increase in opium cultivation in Burma’s northern Shan State in the constituency of a drug lord elected into …
An ILO Commission of Inquiry on Freedom of Association in Burma
October 14, 2011This report from The International Trade Union Confederation examines the denial of freedom of association in Burma and calls on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to approve the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry on Freedom of Associati …
Lives of Chin Refugees in Delhi: Case Studies
October 9, 2011The report is published by Chin Refugee Committee, Delhi and aimed to highlight the plight of the Chin refugees living in Delhi with the hope that their conditions would improve. This report attempts to highlight: – The sufferings and struggle of the C …
Burma’s Covered up War: Atrocities Against the Kachin People
October 7, 2011This report from the Kachin Women’s Association – Thailand, reveals human rights abuses against the Kachin People in Kachin State since the November 2010 election. Human rights abuse against the Kachin People in Kachin State are rape, killing, forced d …