Reports
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…
Displacement and Poverty in South East Burma
This new report from The Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) finds forced displacement in South East Burma is at its…
Still Poisoned
Opium cultivation surging in constituency of Burma’s new ruling party
This report by the Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) exposes a…
Stolen Lives: Human Trafficking from Palaung area of Burma to China
This report from the Palaung Women’s Organization reveals evidence of cases of human trafficking collected since 2007 by field workers…
Crisis in Shan State
Burma Briefing No. 12
On 13th March 2011 the dictatorship in Burma broke a 22 year long ceasefire agreement with…
Burma’s New Constitution - Denying Ethnic Rights
Burma Briefing No. 11
This briefing looks at the wide-ranging negative impacts Burma’s new Constitution will have on ethnic groups…
Diagnosis Critical - health and human rights in eastern Burma
This report reveals that the health of populations in conflict-affected areas of eastern Burma, particularly women and children, is amongst…
Displaced Childhoods
Report by Partners Relief & Development and Free Burma Rangers.
Burma’s military government, the State Peace and Development Council…
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…
Walking Amongst Sharp Knives
This report from the Karen Women’s Organisation reveals previously unreported abuses taking place against ethnic Karen women in Burma.
The…
Thailand to Force 3,000 Karen Refugees Back to Burma?
3,000 ethnic Karen refugees who were forced to flee into Thailand in June 2009 are facing forced return to Burma…
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…
Crimes in Burma
A report from Harvard Law School, commissioned by some of the most respected jurists in international law, using the UN’s…
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…
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…
State of Terror
A report by the Karen Women’s Organisation detailing the ongoing rape, murder, torture and forced labour suffered by women living…
Failing the People of Burma?
A report by Burma Campaign UK calling for a review of DFID policy on Burma
Dignity in the Shadow of Oppression
A report by the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) documenting Burmese military attacks on unarmed women in Burma.
Chronic Emergency - Health & Human Rights in Eastern Burma
A report by the Back Pack Health Worker Team
Pro-Aid, Pro-Sanctions, Pro-Engagement
Position paper by pro-democracy organisations detailing policy on humanitarian assistance to Burma.
License to Rape
A report by Shan Women’s Action Network on the systematic use of rape by the Burmese military.
- Over 30,000 displaced by Burma Army attacks face humanitarian crisis in Shan State
- Burma Army gives rapists free rein in northern Shan State offensive
- Kachin women demand immediate end to Burmese regime’s use of rape as a weapon of war
- UK Minister – Government of Burma should ‘reinstate ceasefire agreements’
- British Government ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Shan State Situation
