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November 14, 2024
Junta Shelling Injures Two Children in Kyaukkyi Township, Bago Region
November 14, 2024
Junta Using Its Soldiers’ Families as Human Shields
November 12, 2024
KNU Seizes Base Held by Myanmar Army for 70 Years
October 11, 2016
Peace Needed to Improve Public Health
The Back Pack Health Worker Team (BPHWT) said, in a 6 October statement, that civil war and conflicts have worsened public health and as a result...
October 10, 2016
Myawaddy-Mae Sot Temporary Border Crossing Permit Extended From One to...
Burma and Thai officials have agreed to extend the permit of stay from one day to seven days for people traveling with their temporary border pass...
MI24 Burma Army helicopter gunship firing rockets in a Kachin State offensive Decmeber 2012 (Photo: FBR)
October 10, 2016
Burma Army Uses Jets Against Kachin and Wounded KIA Soldiers Claim...
The Free Burma Rangers, a frontline humanitarian organization, released a report detailing the recent use of jet fighters by the Burma Army against...
October 6, 2016
KNU Prepared to Reunite with Splinter DKBA
The Karen National Union (KNU) is prepared to reunite with the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (Splinter DKBA), a splinter group of the Democratic...
October 6, 2016
Fighting ‘directly linked’ to Hat Gyi Dam Project – Claim Karen Leadership
Ongoing military operations by the Burma Army and government militia against DKBA forces are a threat to the peace process, Karen military leaders...
October 4, 2016
Asia World and Shwe Padonmar Companies Sue Returning IDPs for Trespass
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) returning to their former villages are being sued for trespass by the Asia World and Shwe Padonmar companies who...
WFPP Book launch for ‘Sustainable Peace and Women’s Participation.’
October 3, 2016
Book Aims to Increase Women’s Role in the Peace Process
The Women’s Federation for Peace (WFFP) launched ‘Sustainable Peace and Women’s Participation’, a book designed to increase women’s participation in...
October 3, 2016
Armed Conflict Promoting Drug Use in Ethnic Areas
Villagers claim that as a result of the recent armed conflict between the Palaung and Shan armed groups in Kyaukme Township of Shan State has been...
October 3, 2016
KNU Vice Chair Tours Refugee Camps to Brief Refugees on its Peace Process
Representatives of the Karen National Union are holding a series of meetings with refugees at the nine Thai border camps to inform them about the...
KWO Organised Meeting on Refugee Resettlement
October 3, 2016
KWO Hold Meeting to Discuss Refugee Resettlement
A group led by the Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO) met with residents of ten villages in Htantabin Township in the Karen National Union (KNU)-...
September 29, 2016
KWO Calls for End to Fighting in Ceasefire Areas
The Karen Women Organisation (KWO) called for an end to fighting between the Burma Army supported by Border Guard Forces (BGF) and the Democratic...
September 29, 2016
KWO Calls for End to Fighting in Ceasefire Areas
The Karen Women Organisation (KWO) called for an end to fighting between the Burma Army supported by Border Guard Forces (BGF) and the Democratic...