Karen Information Center

September 16, 2017
<p>Around 300 residents from a village in northern Shan State have fled into the jungle after a Tatmadaw patrol reportedly began shooting in...
September 15, 2017
<p>What was supposed to be a public forum on the peace process in Bago Region this week turned into more of a lecture when the question and...
September 13, 2017
<p>The Karen diaspora is showing increasing irritation at the Karen National Union&rsquo;s ceasefire stance.<br /> <br />The...
September 12, 2017
<p>Security has been beefed up along the Myanmar-Thai border in response to rumors and scaremongering on social media, according to a member of...
September 11, 2017
Civil society groups in Kayin (Karen) State last week discussed concerns that the official ceasefire monitoring body may restrict their peace-related...
September 7, 2017
<p>Nineteen new auxiliary midwives have completed their training and will bolster rural health teams in an aim to reduce maternal mortality in...
September 7, 2017
<p>Kayin (Karen) State health officials this week completed the third and final round of vaccines for children living at an internally...
September 6, 2017
An internally displaced persons camp in Kayin (Karen) State is making a last-ditch appeal for international donors to continue providing aid. All...
September 4, 2017
<p>A refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border is under a partial quarantine following an H1N1 patient&rsquo;s death on August 31. Aid...
September 4, 2017
The Kayin (Karen) State government is planning to hold a multiethnic cultural festival next year. On September 2, government officials held a...
September 4, 2017
<p>Two years after the 2014 census was conducted, government officials are just getting around to explaining the point of all those questions...
A local-level Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee office in Hpapun township was launched with an opening ceremony on August 30. (Photo: the Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief Office)
September 1, 2017
Supporting the nuts and bolts of implementing the peace process, a local-level committee was formed with an office in Hpapun township, Kayin (Karen...