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Links

Burma Organisations Worldwide

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National League for Democracy

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Human Rights

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News and Information

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Environment

  • Burma Rivers Network
  • EarthRights International

    EarthRights International's Burma Project collects on-the-ground information about the human rights and environmental situation in Burma.

  • Karen Rivers Watch
  • Living River Siam

    Works to support local community rights to their rivers, and to oppose threats to rivers and river ecosystems in Thailand, the Mekong, and Salween River Basins, such as large dams and water diversion projects.

  • Project Maje
  • Salween watch

    A coalition of organizations and NGOs that work on Burma-related and environmental issues. It was set up with the primary aim of preventing the building of harmful hydroelectric power dams on the Salween River.

  • Shwe Gas Movement

    A campaign site documenting the Shwe Gas project.



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Business and Economy

  • Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia

    A statement on business involvement in Burma by institutional investors that collectively have £400 billion in funds under management.

  • Burma Economic Watch

    A periodical that aims to provide up-to-date and reliable data , analysis and commentary on the economy of Burma.

  • Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

    Aims to track the positive and negative impacts of over 4000 companies worldwide

  • Global Unions: Companies linked to Burma

    A database compiled by the ITUC and the Global Union Federations, based on publicly available information indicating that companies have business links with Burma.

  • Salween watch

    A coalition of organizations and NGOs that work on Burma-related and environmental issues. It was set up with the primary aim of preventing the building of harmful hydroelectric power dams on the Salween River.

  • SEEcompanies.com

    A forum in which businesses set out their social, environmental and ethical (SEE)

  • Shwe Gas Movement

    A campaign site documenting the Shwe Gas project.



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Health

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Cultural and Historical

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Ethnic Groups

    Chin
  • Chin Forum

    The Chin Forum provides research and reports to assist the Chin peoples' struggle for freedom and democracy.

  • Chin Human Rights Organization

    Chin Human Rights Organization is working to protect and promote the rights of the Chin people.

  • Chin National Front (CNF)

    The Chin National Front (CNF) was formed on 20 March, 1988, dedicated to securing the self-determination of the Chin people, to restore democracy, and to establish federal Union of Burma.

  • Kuki Forum (KIF)

    Kuki Forum (KIF)

    • Kachin
  • Kachin News

    Kachin News

  • Kachin Post

    The Kachin Post is an independent media organization and it stands for Kachin National interest in the principles of democracy and human rights.

  • Kachin Women’s Association Thailand

    The empowerment and advancement of Kachin women in order to improve the lives of women and children in Kachin society.

    • Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
  • http://www.kachinwomen.org/

    The empowerment and advancement of Kachin women in order to improve the lives of women and children in Kachin society.

    • Karen
  • Karen National Union

    The Karen National Union is the leading political organisation representing the aspirations of the Karen people.

  • Phan Foundation

    Founded in memory of Padoh Mahn Sha, the General Secretary of the Karen National Union. Has four main objectives: to alleviate poverty, to provide education, to promote human rights and to protect Karen culture.

  • Karen Women Organisation

    A community-based organisation of Karen women working in development and relief in the refugee camps on the Thai border and with IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) and women inside Burma.

  • Kawthoolei

    Provide contemporary news, views and perspectives by and about the Karen people.

  • Drum Publications

    Provides educational material in Burmese, English and Karen. Drum Publication Group is a small independent community based organization dedicated to promoting education and preserving the cultures of the peoples of Burma.

  • Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)

    The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) is a small and independent group documenting the human rights situation in rural Burma.

    • Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO)
  • http://www.karenwomen.org/

    A community-based organisation of Karen women working in development and relief in the refugee camps on the Thai border and with IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) and women inside Burma.

    • Karenni
  • Karenni Students Union (KSU)

    Karenni Students Union (KSU)

  • Karenni Homeland

    Karenni Homeland

    • Mon
  • Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)

    Founded by pro-democracy students from the 1988 uprising and more recent activists and Mon community leaders and youths HURFOM's main aim is for the restoration of democracy, human rights and genuine peace in Burma.

  • Kaowao Newsgroup

    Activists and journalists committed to addressing pressing issues of Burma and its indigenous heritage formed the Kaowao Newsgroup in November 2001.

    • Palaung
  • The Palaung Land

    The team of the Palaung Land Website provides the news and current affairs in English at website and in Burmese and Palaung language in the journal covering domestic news and events from the Palaung area and others in Northern Shan State.

    • Rohingya
  • Arakan Rohingya National Organization

    Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO)

  • Burmese Rohingya Organisation

    Burmese Rohingya Organisation (BROUK)

  • Rohingya Burma’s Forgotten Minority

    A report by Refugees International

  • Rohingyas, the Forgotten People

    An ABC documentary

  • The Rohingya Minority

    A report by Amnesty International (2004)

    • Shan
  • Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN)

    SWAN works for gender equality and justice for Shan women in the struggle for social and political change in Burma.

  • Shan Herald Agency for News

    A nonprofit news organization publishing reports in Shan, Burmese, English, and Thai, featuring politics, literature, human rights reporting and opinion pieces.

  • Shan Human Rights Foundation

    Produces regular reports on human rights violations in Shan State.

  • Shan Commongood Action Network

    Information on Shan history and culture.

  • Shan Culture Blog

    Shan Culture Blog is information about Shan ethnic's culture.

    • Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN)
  • http://www.shanwomen.org/

    A network of Shan women active in Shan State and Thailand. It was founded on 28 March 1999. Most SWANs work on voluntary basis.



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Women

  • Burmese Women’s Union

    Burmese Women's Union (BWU) work for the rights of women, to increase women's participation in the Burmese political arena and to provide much-needed support for women in the refugee camps along the borders of Burma.

  • Kachin Women’s Association Thailand

    The empowerment and advancement of Kachin women in order to improve the lives of women and children in Kachin society.

  • Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO)

    A community-based organisation of Karen women working in development and relief in the refugee camps on the Thai border and with IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) and women inside Burma.

  • Karenni National Women’s Organization

    KNWO is a community-based organization that looks after the wellbeing of disadvantaged Karenni people caught in armed conflict.

  • Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN)

    A network of Shan women active in Shan State and Thailand. It was founded on 28 March 1999. Most SWANs work on voluntary basis.

  • WEAVE - Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment

    WEAVE was founded in 1990, with the intent to empower indigenous women and support their needs and basic human rights.

  • Women’s League of Burma

    Aims to work for women's empowerment and advancement of the status of women, and to work for the increased participation of women in all spheres of society in the democracy movement, and in peace and national reconciliation processes through capacity building, advocacy, research and documentation.

  • Women’s League of Chinland

    Focuses on building capacity of Chin Women through workshops, training programs, safe houses and income generation of. Promotes women participation in politics through lobbying and advocacy campaigns regionally and internationally.



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Refugees and IDPs

  • Burma Border Projects (BBP)

    A non-profit, charitable foundation established to support and augment existing relief efforts along the Burma-Thailand border.

  • Burma Children Medical Fund (BCMF)

    A program dedicated to raising money for children from Burma with serious medical problems who are disadvantaged as a result of the Burmese regime.

  • Free Burma Rangers

    The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) provide humanitarian assistance to ethnic groups affected by conflict and oppression at the hands of Burma’s military regime.

  • Helfe Ohne Grenzen

    A German relief organisation for refugees on the Thai/Burma border.

  • Help without Frontiers

    Aims to alleviate the suffering of Burmese refugees who have flee their homeland because of regime brutality.

  • Karenni Student Development Program (KSDP)

    Providing aid for Karenni refugees on the Thai/Burma border

  • Latest IDP figure for Burma - Internal Displacement Monitoring Group

    Established in 1998 by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), is the leading international body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide.

  • Living Water Center

    A Thai charity providing education to Burmese refugees.

  • Mae Tao Clinic (Dr Cynthia’s clinic)

    The Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), founded and directed by Dr. Cynthia Maung, provides free health care for refugees, migrant workers, and other individuals who cross the border from Burma to Thailand.

  • Partner Relief & Development

    We assist the poor and those affected by the war in Burma. We are committed to empower individuals and communities and co-create sustainable solutions to their poverty. We are a voice for the displaced and oppressed. We seek system change.

  • Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC)

    TBBC is a consortium of 12 international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from ten countries providing food, shelter and non food items to refugees and displaced people from Burma.

  • The Branch Foundation

    TBF is Fund-raising body and provide aid and financial assistance for ethnic minority groups, in particular children that have fled ethnic conflict in the region.

  • WEAVE - Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment

    WEAVE was founded in 1990, with the intent to empower indigenous women and support their needs and basic human rights.



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Students and Education

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Trade Unions

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Burmese Regime

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Documentaries and Videos

  • BeCause Foundation

    BeCause Foundation drives social change through the powerful fusion of documentary filmmaking and related strategic programs.

  • Burma Campaign UK’s YouTube channel.

    Watch the best Burma videos from across the web at Burma Campaign UK's YouTube channel.

  • Burma Soldier

    The story of Myo Myint, a political prisoner, who made the transformation from being a soldier in Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist.

  • Burma VJ

    Burma VJ is a documentary that traces the 2007 uprising in Burma by telling the story of the undercover video journalists (VJs) that recorded the uprising and the subsequent brutal crackdown.

  • Eyes to Burma

    About Burma crisis and the problems resulting from the crisis.

  • Inside Burma - Land of Fear

    Information on the documentary by John Pilger

  • Inside Burma - Land of Fear

    Watch the video on Google Video

  • Into the Current: Burma’s Political Prisoners

    Into The Current tells the story of Burma's unsung heroes - its prisoners of conscience - and the price they pay for speaking truth to power in a military dictatorship.

  • Kalama Sutta

    A documentary in which a trip to Burma is transformed into a meditation on human rights and media.

  • Moving to Mars

    Moving to Mars follows two refugee families from Burma over the course of a year that will change their lives completely.

  • Nickel City Smiler - Burma Documentary

    Nickel City Smiler chronicles a refugee's fight for survival and hope in the American Rust Belt.

  • The Hub, by Witness.

    The web's first video site promoting Human Rights. Through the Hub, individuals, organizations, networks and groups around the world are able to bring their human rights stories and campaigns to global attention and to mobilize action to protect and promote human rights.



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Other

  • Christian Solidarity Worldwide

    A human rights organisation which specialises in religious freedom, works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs and promotes religious liberty for all.

  • Conservative Party Human Rights Commission

    The Conservative Party Human Rights Group is a body established to highlight international human rights concerns, and to inform, advise and develop the party’s foreign policy by making human rights a priority.

  • Vale Earth Fair

    Annual festival which helps raise funds for The Burma Campaign UK



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