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.
Crimes in Burma
May 1, 2009A report from Harvard Law School, commissioned by some of the most respected jurists in international law, using the UN’s own reports to highlight how Burma’s generals have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Holding our ground
April 1, 2009A report on Land Confiscation in Arakan & Mon States, and Pa-O Area of Southern Shan State
After the Storm: Voices from the Delta
February 1, 2009After the Storm: Voices from the Delta is the first independent report assessing the response of the Burmese regime to Cyclone Nargis, which struck Burma in May 2008. It exposes how the Burmese regime committed human rights abuses in its response to th …
We are Like Forgotten People.
January 1, 2009In this report, Human Rights Watch documents a wide range of human rights abuses carried out by the Burmese junta. In Mizoram state, India, Chin people remain at risk of discrimination and abuse by local Mizo groups and local authorities, and of being …