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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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’…
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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…
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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…
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