Tyrants, Tycoons and Tigers: Yuzana Company Ravages Burma’s Hugawng Valley

Report by The Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG).

A bitter land struggle is unfolding in northern Burma’s remote Hugawng Valley. Farmers that have been living for generations in the valley …

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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 …

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The Role of political prisoners in the national reconciliation process

Report by The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma).

This report sets out the vitally important role of Burma’s political prisoners in a process of national reconciliation, leading to democratic …

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Displaced Childhoods

Report by Partners Relief & Development and Free Burma Rangers.

Burma’s military government, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), has displaced hundreds of thousands of people with impunity, …

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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 …

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Stateless and Starving

Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh
A report by Physicians for Human Rights

In recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal …

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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 practice of the Burmese Army to execute village heads has …

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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 starting on February 5th 2010. Although the Royal Thai Government …

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Trapped in a Cycle of Flight: Stateless Rohingya in Malaysia

This report by The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) provides first hand testimony from Rohingya who have been subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, violence, extortion, human trafficking and forced labour in …

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Poisoned Hills

Poisoned Hills, a report released by the Palaung Women’s Organization reveals that opium cultivation in Burma’s northern Shan State has been increasing rapidly over the past three years in areas …

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Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project

This preliminary report from the Arakan Rivers Network (ARN) highlights the human rights and environmental concerns over the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project agreed between the Indian government and the …

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2010 Elections: A Recipe for Continued Conflict

This report reveals serious concerns over the possible conduct of the 2010 elections that is likely to disenfranchise an estimated 1.9 million voters. It also outlines the serious flaws in …

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Resisting the Flood: Communities stand up against Chinese dams on Burma’s Irrawaddy

A report by Kachin Development Network Group about recent dam construction and forced relocation in northern Kachin State. China Power Investment is planning a series of seven dams on the …

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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 …

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On the Edge of Survival: The Continuing Rat Infestation and Food Crisis in Chin State, Burma

A report by Chin Human Rights Organization about the rat infestation and food crisis in Chin State finds that food shortages have spread to seven townships in Chin State as …

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Burma’s Forgotten Prisoners

A report by Human Rights Watch documenting dozens of prominent political activists, Buddhist monks, labor activists, journalists, and artists arrested since peaceful political protests in 2007 and sentenced to draconian …

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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 …

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Roots and Resilience English

The Tasang dam, the largest planned for the trans-national Salween River, will submerge 870 kilometers in the heartland of Shan State, Burma. The dam is located in the midst of …

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Heroin Epidemic in Kachin State

The jade mines of Hpakant in Burma’s northern Kachin State have long been notorious for high rates of drug addiction and HIV infection. What is less known, thanks to the …

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Laid Waste: Human Rights along the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay gas pipeline

Report by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) to promote human rights abuses along a 1,200 mile pipeline raised the prospect of further abuses on a far wider scale.