Displaced Childhoods
April 9, 2010Report by Partners Relief & Development and Free Burma Rangers. Burma’s military government, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), has displaced hundreds of thousands of people with impunity, particularly in the country’s ethnic territori …
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma report to the UN Human Rights Council
March 11, 2010Report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana, to the UN Human Rights Council. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the UN consider establishing a Commission of Inquiry into war c …
Stateless and Starving
March 11, 2010Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh A report by Physicians for Human Rights In recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion, and forced internment against Burmese …
Walking Amongst Sharp Knives
February 25, 2010This report from the Karen Women’s Organisation reveals previously unreported abuses taking place against ethnic Karen women in Burma. The practice of the Burmese Army to execute village heads has led to traditional Karen culture being turned upside-do …
Thailand to Force 3,000 Karen Refugees Back to Burma?
February 3, 20103,000 ethnic Karen refugees who were forced to flee into Thailand in June 2009 are facing forced return to Burma starting on February 5th 2010. Although the Royal Thai Government and local and military representatives have officially stated that they w …
Trapped in a Cycle of Flight: Stateless Rohingya in Malaysia
January 29, 2010This report by The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) provides first hand testimony from Rohingya who have been subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, violence, extortion, human trafficking and forced labour in Malaysia. The report reveals for the first time …
Poisoned Hills
January 26, 2010Poisoned Hills, a report released by the Palaung Women’s Organization reveals that opium cultivation in Burma’s northern Shan State has been increasing rapidly over the past three years in areas under the control of the ruling military government. This …
Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project
November 10, 2009This preliminary report from the Arakan Rivers Network (ARN) highlights the human rights and environmental concerns over the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project agreed between the Indian government and the Burmese military junta. The report h …
2010 Elections: A Recipe for Continued Conflict
October 30, 2009This report reveals serious concerns over the possible conduct of the 2010 elections that is likely to disenfranchise an estimated 1.9 million voters. It also outlines the serious flaws in the 2008 constitution that will intensify the root causes of co …
Impunity Prolonged: Burma and its 2008 Constitution
October 8, 2009Report by the International Center for Transitional Justice calling on the international community to withhold support for Burma’s 2010 elections and not accept the results of the vote unless the government amends the country’s constitution to end impu …