KIC
2014-06-17
The Burma Army in Tanintharyi Township attacked the base of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Huaypha area killing one KNLA soldier...
2014-06-16
International civil society organisations, human rights watchdogs and advocacy groups have issued a united call for Burma’s government to drop its...
2014-06-16
An extensive investigation by British newspaper, The Guardian, has uncovered evidence of endemic use of “slave” labour in Thailand’s fishing industry...
2014-06-12
Child migrant workers in the Thai-Burma border town of Mae Sot struggle to earn enough to survive, working in dirty, difficult and dangerous work,...
2014-06-12
To commemorate World Day Against Child Labour, Karen News spoke to child workers who scrape a meager living from collecting garbage in the Thai-Burma...
2014-06-11
Burma focused international human rights advocacy organisations, youth groups and unions, have marked the third anniversary of the conflict in Kachin...
2014-06-11
Karen community groups have for the first time have called on the Karen National Union to show more transparency and openness in their ongoing peace...
2014-06-10
On June 5, 2014, the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN) organised an event commemorating the World Environment Day in one of the...
2014-06-09
Naw Bway Paw looks out from the door of her windowless bamboo home in Hlaing Bwe Township, Karen State, and remembers the day in 1996 when Burma’s...
2014-06-09
Offensives by the Burmese army in Kachin State are undermining the peace process, according to an ethnic women’s organization known as the Kachin...
2014-06-09
Burmese President U Thein Sein’s decision to sign the “Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence” just a week before a global summit on sexual...
2014-06-06
Burma’s election body, the Union Electoral Commission (UEC), has been accused of intimidating the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD)...
2014-06-06
Parents of students at Taungkalay High School in Hpa-an have expressed concern that they still have to pay educational fees for their children...
2014-06-05
Residents and monks from 30 Karen villages have called for all Karen armed groups to join under a single banner in order to stop drug running and...
2014-06-04
The Karen National Union (KNU) has been constructing two low-cost housing projects for families of disabled soldiers from its armed wing (the Karen...