Karen Information Center

August 16, 2016
Around 1,000 youths converged for International Youth Day in Karen State’s capital Hpa-an last Saturday.
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August 11, 2016
The Nippon Foundation has withdrawn plans to build 100 low-cost housing units for refugees that will be resettled to Tanintharyi Region from Thai...
August 9, 2016
Residents in Karen State without electricity are getting anxious after waiting for late solar panels to be delivered as part of the National...
August 8, 2016
Four people that were being transported from a clinic in Mae Sariang to nearby Thai refugee camps Mae La Oon and Mae Ra Moe sustained injuries after...
August 8, 2016
In an effort to foster trust in the country’s peace building and in future political movements, ethnic youth from all over Burma formed an alliance...
August 8, 2016
Fighting between troops from the Border Guard Force and renegade soldiers from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army this week wounded four villagers...
August 6, 2016
A group aims to raise awareness and self-esteem of youth in Karen State with training that provides them with the skills and abilities they need to...
August 6, 2016
Two civil society groups recently gave ceasefire monitoring training in Dawei in Tenasserim Region. Since last year, the Karen Development Network...
August 5, 2016
A new report by a Karen rights group calls for the protection of women facing gender based discrimination, violence, rape and forced labour in...
August 3, 2016
In the spirit of fostering unity among the different groups in Burma, a youth alliance has been formed, gathering members representing 26 different...
August 3, 2016
A new report by the Karen Human Rights Group has documented the insecurity and mistrust ethnic women have to Burmese authorities following decades of...
July 27, 2016
Compensation would be given to locals whose farmlands or fruit tree plantations were affected by the two power cable projects from Myawady to...