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    32 Search results for "KHRG"

    Conflict Lead Story News

    Rights group urges demilitarisation of former conflict zones

    A human rights group in Karen State is calling for the demilitarisation of former conflict areas to ensure that Burma’s ongoing peace process is “stable and long lasting”.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Women face new challenges as conflict cools, report finds

    After decades of conflict, women in former war zones along Burma’s borders continue to struggle with unequal treatment, a new report finds.

    Human Rights Koh Tao Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    The origins of Burmese migrant worker misery

    While correctly demanding that Thailand end its rights abuses against migrants, the incoming NLD government also needs address the structural inequalities and abuses that have driven people from Burma to work and live outside their country.

    DOCUMENTARY: ‘With only our voices, what can we do?’ video

    Development Karen Lead Story News Video

    DOCUMENTARY: ‘With only our voices, what can we do?’

    Watch as KHRG takes you into rural southeastern Burma, where forced land confiscation and environmental destruction is taking place under the backdrop of an increasing Burmese military presence.

    Development Land Lead Story News

    NGOs say ethnic areas have no ‘virgin lands’

    A coalition of ethnic NGOs says the draft National Land Use Policy is flawed because it overlooks traditional shifting agricultural practices in Burma.

    Karen armed groups united to combat illicit drugs video

    Drugs Ethnic issues Lead Story News Video

    Karen armed groups united to combat illicit drugs

    Leaders from six Karen armed groups have formed a task force in order to combat drug production and use in the east Burmese state.

    Analysis

    The futile and violent search for ‘authenticity’ in Burma

    Growing anxiety over resource distribution in a changing Burma can help explain sectarian violence

    Analysis

    Burma must take steps to quell ethnic violence

    In the wake of unspeakable violence carried out in a methodical manner by civilians with the acquiescence of local police, there must be a strong and swift response within Burma

    Analysis

    Rights-claiming in a rule of law vacuum

    In the absence of widely accessible formal complaints mechanisms, protests are cropping up and breaking the silence surrounding long-established projects

    News Politics

    Abuses ‘could accompany’ Burma reforms: UN

    UN rights expert Tomas Quintana says concerns persist over legal weaknesses and potential for investment to induce rights abuses

    News Politics

    Attacks continue despite Karen ceasefire

    Burmese troops shell a camp for internally displaced persons, while sporadic clashes break out between Karen and Burmese army

    Analysis

    Away from the Burma fanfare, a harsh reality persists

    A myopic focus on ‘political’ progress obscures the fact that for millions in Burma’s borderlands, nothing has changed since the 2010 elections. Direct testimony from rural communities is the only way to gauge this reality

    News Politics

    ‘No progress since 2010 elections’: report

    Karen group says rosy assessments of Burma done without hearing the painful stories of civilians in rural areas whose suffering continues

    Environment News Politics

    ‘Yellow rain’ fuels chemical weapons fears

    Several reports from civilian areas in Kachin state claim a yellow substance that fell from the sky caused burn holes through vegetation

    News Politics

    S Africa probes Burma diplomat’s history

    Opposition calls on President Zuma to revoke accreditation of Myint Naung, who is believed to be implicated in deaths of civilians

    News Politics

    Rights groups condemn ‘war crime’ use of convict porters

    Rights groups claim the Burmese military is using convicts as porters in war zones, in what they allege amount to ‘war crimes’, as election promises on human rights seemingly ignored

    News Politics

    Shan upheaval as gas attack fears spread

    Locals in southern Shan state told to leave homes as impending assault is accompanied by rumours of chemical weapons

    News Politics

    Fears mount over chemical weapons use

    Shelling of Shan army base leaves soldiers vomiting and struggling to breathe as speculation of chemical weapons use mounts

    Health News

    Conflict worsening Karen food crisis

    Nearly 9000 people in northern Karen state facing major food shortage as a result of abnormal weather and Burmese army attacks

    News Politics

    Karen hospital hit by artillery fire

    Three shells land in Kawkareit town as human rights groups warns that military operations are creating a severe food shortage in Karen state

    News Politics

    Refugees fearful of Thai warning

    Tak governor’s comments that Thailand has ditched a refugee screening process and that they may have to return is met with anger

    News Politics

    FIFA chief dogged by controversy

    Sepp Blatter meets Thein Sein and gives funding to Myanmar Football Federation, whose chairman Zaw Zaw is subject to US and EU sanctions

    News Politics

    Refugees treated like ‘ping pong balls’

    Rights group says Thai authorities are ‘reluctantly’ allowing Karen refugees in as fighting at the weekend sparks another exodus

    News Politics

    Thai army ‘obstructing refugees’

    Aid groups warn that fighting continues in eastern Burma and refugees continue to move back and forth across the border

    News Politics

    Border flare-up sparks refugee turmoil

    Latest eruption of fighting between Burmese troops and the DKBA comes after weeks of heavy-handed tactics against civilians

    Health News Politics

    ‘27,000 displaced’ in Karen township

    Lu Thaw township in northern Karen state hit by relentless military attacks for two decades and report says is one of the worst cases in eastern Burma

    News Politics

    Deported Karen boy killed by grenade

    Five-year-old killed and older brother ‘critical’ as Thai refugee camps empty despite warnings that conditions in eastern Burma remain dangerous

    News

    Eastern Burma facing ‘severe’ food crisis

    Oct 19, 2009 (DVB), Armed conflict has contributed to what could be the worst food security problem in Burma's eastern Karen state in over a decade, a report by Karen[…]

    News Politics

    Army abuse still rife in Karen state

    Sept 8, 2009 (DVB), Abuse of civilians by Burmese troops and a proxy militia that forced 5000 into Thailand in June continue to occur in Karen state, according to a[…]

    News

    Youth sold to Burmese army for $US20

    June 9, 2009 (DVB), Teenagers are being kidnapped and sold to the Burmese army for as little as $US20, while those caught trying to escape are often shot or poisoned,[…]

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