Stop Rape and Sexual Violence in Burma
In the past year, there are reports that the Burmese Army has stepped up its use of rape, gang-rape and sexual violence against ethnic women.
Please take action now and urge William Hague MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to take action to stop gang-rape and sexual violence in Burma.
Reports
Driven Away
Report is Trafficking of Kachin women on the China-Burma border, produced by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT)
The report is based on 63 verified and suspected trafficking cases that occurred primarily during 2000-2004. The cases involve 85 women and girls, mostly between the ages of 14 and 20. Testimony…
Crimes against humanity in eastern Myanmar
This report by Amnesty International focuses on violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed in Kayin State and Bago Division between 2005 through 2007. It raises grave concerns that the violations of international human rights and humanitarian law against the Karen described in this report have been part…
Internal Displacement and International Law in Eastern Burma
This report from the Thai Burma Border Consortium argues that the SPDC’s actions in Eastern Burma – forced labor, extortion and land confiscation as well as military campaigns that have displaced over 500,000 people - constitute crimes against humanity. The report concludes by arguing that the international community must move…
Crimes in Burma
A 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.
International crimes committed in Burma: the urgent need for a Commission of Inquiry
This 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 demonstrates that international crimes have been – and are still being – perpetrated in Burma…
Impunity Prolonged: Burma and its 2008 Constitution
Report 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 impunity for human rights violations.
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma report to the UN Human Rights Council
Report 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 crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.
The report states…
Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas
A report from Irish Centre for Human Rights about the Rohingya in Western Burma. The Report is based on extensive research and on a fact-finding mission to Burma, Thailand and Bangladesh conducted by experts in international criminal investigation. As well as interviewing organisations working in the region, investigators met with…
The United Nations General Assembly & Burma
Updated 25 July 2011
Burma Briefing No. 2
This briefing calls on the United Nations General Assembly to establish a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. EU Member states are currently drafting the twentieth annual resolution on Burma, which is expected to be adopted…
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma report to the UN General Assembly
Report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana.
The Special Rapporteur repeats his call for a UN Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. He argues that the dictatorship’s denial that crimes are taking…
Support for a United Nations Commission of Inquiry
Updated 16 August 2011
Burma Briefing No. 7
This briefing details the growing international support for a UN Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.
In March 2010 Tomas Ojea Quintana, current UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, called for the establishment of a UN Commission…
Life Under the Junta
Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity in Burma’s Chin State
This report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), is the first widespread survey of Burma’s Chin State in Western Burma. Researchers found that almost 92 percent of households surveyed had experienced forced labour at least once in the year prior to…
Political Prisoners in Burma – A Crime Against Humanity
Burma Briefing No. 10
In the past two years there has been an increasing trend to look at Burma through the lens of international law, rather than just as a civil liberties or human rights issue. This approach gained momentum in March 2010, when the United Nations Special Rapporteur on…
Crisis in Shan State
Burma Briefing No. 12
On 13th March 2011 the dictatorship in Burma broke a 22 year long ceasefire agreement with the Shan State Army – North. Sixty-five clashes were reported in the first three weeks of the dictatorship breaking the ceasefire. Civilians are being targeted in the military offensive, with…
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Burma
Burma Briefing No. 14
For twenty years the United Nations has documented human rights abuses in Burma which may be in violation of international law. In March 2010 the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Burma called on the UN to establish a Commission of Inquiry into possible war crimes and…
Revealing Burma’s System of Impunity - A Briefer For The Comission of Inquiry Campaign
This 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 of Burma’s military regime and apologists for the regime…
Burma’s Covered up War: Atrocities Against the Kachin People
This 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 displacement, forced labor and torture.
These abuses have led many…
Grabbing Land: Destructive Development in the Ta’ang Region
A 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, the authorities have refused to stop land confiscation, causing more threats to families’…
Crimes in Northern Burma
This 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 out on June 9 between the Burma army and the Kachin Independence Army, ending a 17-year-long…
Under Siege in Kachin State, Burma
This report is released by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). It reveals detailing human rights abuses committed by the Burmese Army in Kachin State, Burma. PHR’s investigation reveals that the much‐publicized incremental political changes in central Burma have not translated into improvements for the ethnic populations in the remote areas…
Extreme Measures: Torture and Ill Treatment in Burma since the 2010 Elections
This report by The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) documents the Government of Burma’s use of torture and ill treatment against its own people since the November 2010 elections.
“The international community has been applauding the government for recent gestures towards change; essentially they are praising…
Ongoing Impunity: Continued Burma Army atrocities against the Kachin people
This report by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) provides an update of atrocities committed by the Burma Army against civilians since it broke its 17-year ceasefire with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) one year ago.
It highlights the particular suffering of women during the conflict, who have been…
‘Threats to Our Existence’: Persecution of Ethnic Chin Christians in Burma
This report by the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) exposes a decades-long pattern of religious freedom violations that persist today, and, drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews conducted over the past two years, documents other serious human rights abuses such as forced labour, torture, and other cruel and inhuman…
State Terror in the Kachin Hills
This report by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) details widespread civilian casualties from recent Burma Army offensives in Kachin areas and urges international pressure to end military aggression against the Kachin people.
“State Terror in the Kachin Hills” documents the killing or injury of 26 civilians, including women, children…
Human Rights Violations by the Burma Army in Palaung areas (March and April 2013)
A report by the Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) and Ta’ang Student and Youth Organization (TSYO)
Since January 2013, Burmese government troops have been carrying out military offensives in Palaung areas against the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N), Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). The Burmese troops have…
