Burma Campaign UK
Charities and campaign groups including the Jo Cox Foundation, the United Nations Association UK, and Burma Campaign UK have called for a UK strategy on atrocity prevention in a joint letter to the Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt MP, copied to the UK Focal Point for the Responsibility to Protect, James Kariuki. Joint Letter to Foreign …
Statement by Karen Peace Support Network KPSN condemns jailing of Kachin activists The Karen Peace Support Network condemns the conviction and jailing of Kachin peace activists, Nang Pu, Lum Zawng and Zau Jat. The jailing of these activists is designed to silence criticism of the military and their actions. It will not succeed. Ethnic people …
Media release from World Kachin Congress World Kachin Congress deplores unjust sentencing of Kachin civil society leaders, calls for sanctions against the real criminals – the Burma Army The World Kachin Congress strongly condemns the heinous sentencing of three Kachin civil society leaders to six months in prison and a fine of 500,000 kyat each …
Press Release from Shan communities and MPs Shan communities and MPs call for cancellation of dams in conflict-torn northern and southern Shan State Shan communities and local Members of Parliaments are holding a press conference today in Yangon, to call for an immediate cancellation of the Upper Yeywa dam in northern Shan State and the …
Humanitarian organisations have hit back at accusations that they are blocking the repatriation of Rohingya refugees living in crowded camps in Bangladesh. Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, described as nonsense the Burmese government’s accusation that NGOs are trying to prevent refugees from returning to Myanmar because they are making money. He said refugees …
Lway Poe Kamaekhour from the Ta’ang Women’s Organization (TWO) joins Zoya Phan and Anna Roberts from Burma Campaign UK at the 2018 Film festival on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, at the BFI London.