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 …
Political Prisoner Releases in Burma
September 30, 2011Updated 10 January 2012 Burma Briefing No. 16 As speculation mounts that the government in Burma is about to release some political prisoners, this briefing looks at the history of political prisoner releases in Burma. The mass release of prisoners is …
Revealing Burma’s System of Impunity – A Briefer For The Comission of Inquiry Campaign
September 9, 2011This report reveals Burma’s System of Impunity in Burma. The introduction of the report is that the campaign builds to have the United Nations establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity within Burma, members …
Events in Burma – New or Recycled?
September 8, 2011Burma Briefing No. 15 This briefing analyses recent events in Burma, many of which have been hailed as ‘new’, ‘unprecedented’ and ‘progress’. It finds that most of what has taken place in recent months is not new at all, and that Thein Sein is borrowin …