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 …
On the Edge of Survival: The Continuing Rat Infestation and Food Crisis in Chin State, Burma
September 24, 2009A report by Chin Human Rights Organization about the rat infestation and food crisis in Chin State finds that food shortages have spread to seven townships in Chin State as well as parts of Sagaing Division. Up to 82 percent of the farmland has been de …
Burma’s Forgotten Prisoners
September 16, 2009A report by Human Rights Watch documenting dozens of prominent political activists, Buddhist monks, labor activists, journalists, and artists arrested since peaceful political protests in 2007 and sentenced to draconian prison terms after unfair trials …
International crimes committed in Burma: the urgent need for a Commission of Inquiry
August 31, 2009This report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-Burma), and the Burma Lawyers Council (BLC) details the serious human rights violations perpetrated by Burma’s military regime, and dem …
Roots and Resilience English
July 15, 2009The Tasang dam, the largest planned for the trans-national Salween River, will submerge 870 kilometers in the heartland of Shan State, Burma. The dam is located in the midst of a conflict area where Shan resistance forces have been fighting the Burmese …
Heroin Epidemic in Kachin State
June 29, 2009The jade mines of Hpakant in Burma’s northern Kachin State have long been notorious for high rates of drug addiction and HIV infection. What is less known, thanks to the military regime’s strict control of information from this remote area, is the coll …
Laid Waste: Human Rights along the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay gas pipeline
May 18, 2009Report by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) to promote human rights abuses along a 1,200 mile pipeline raised the prospect of further abuses on a far wider scale.