Eighteen Burmese migrants forced to work as slaves on a Thai fishing boat were rescued by the Thai police’s Anti-Human Trafficking Division on 22 July. Two teenagers were among the trafficking victims. Some of them came to Thailand looking for jobs
Tag : Ethnics
Karen network in Europe calling for new efforts
Saturday, July 21 2012
More than 100 Karen from various communities across Europe have met to discuss the political situation in Burma and called for renewed efforts to achieve peace and increased aid to Karen refugees, The network welcomed the recent cease-fire agreement
In China, Kachin Refugees Lack Aid, Face Abuses
Wednesday, June 27 2012
Several thousand ethnic Kachin refugees from Burma are isolated in Yunnan, China, where they are at risk of return to a conflict zone and lack needed humanitarian aid. “China has no legitimate reason to push them back to Burma or to leave them
Rohingyas are the Roma of Asia
Saturday, June 23 2012
The 800,000-strong Rohingya are pariahs: they are stateless, and pejoratively called “Bengalis” by the Burmese, who consider them to be refugees from neighbouring Bangladesh. But those who have tried to flee by boat to Bangladesh, where they are
Femmes birmanes : toujours laissées-pour-compte
Monday, May 14 2012
18 femmes sur les 473 prisonniers politiques actuels seraient encore détenues. Les militantes et les journalistes qui osent s’opposer à la junte continuent de payer un lourd tribut. La plupart d’entre elles sont torturées, violées ou tuées par les
Cross-line NGOs in Kachin
Friday, April 13 2012
Local NGOs in northern Myanmar with access to both sides of an ongoing conflict between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) are playing a key role in addressing the needs of thousands of displaced. The KIA has been fighting for
The economic cost of conflict
Saturday, March 31 2012
First, we should look at the pure financial cost of these civil wars. Second, who paid for it? Third, what if we had used that money for the development of the region where the fighting has taken place instead of the wars? Fourth, who benefited from
L’esercito birmano interrompe una manifestazione di cristiani Chin
Saturday, March 24 2012
L'esercito birmano ha fatto irruzione in un edificio dove si stava svolgendo l'incontro di una comunità cristiana protestante Chin; i militari hanno puntato le armi contro i fedeli presenti, tra i quali vi era anche un parlamentare dello Stato. Il
HRW : Reforms yet to reach Kachin State
Tuesday, March 20 2012
The Burmese government has committed serious abuses and blocked humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of displaced civilians since June 2011, in fighting in Burma’s northern Kachin State, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Some
Malgré les promesses de paix, le viol est toujours une arme de guerre
Saturday, March 10 2012
Plusieurs régions sont encore en proie à une profonde instabilité, des attaques armées continuent d'être perpétrées par des soldats de l'armée birmane, et ce malgré l'ordre donné par le président Thein Sein de mettre un terme à ces attaques.
15,000 Kachin refugees with no access to humanitarian aid
Thursday, March 1 2012
As many as 15,000 Kachin refugees are now living in the shadows on the Chinese border with no access to humanitarian aid or legal protection, according to a local support group who says that international assistance is urgently needed. The warning
Preliminary peace pacts : including the release of all political prisoners
Monday, February 27 2012
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) signed a four-point preliminary peace agreement with the Burmese Union government on Sunday. The four points concern seeking ethnic peace across the country, holding political talks within 45 days, coordination on
A Kachin female leader receives U.S. award
Monday, February 27 2012
A National Democratic Force (NDF) candidate in Kachin state, Bauk Ja was honoured on February 17 by the Mid-Atlantic Kachin Christian Fellowship, according to an article on the Kachin News website. As a spokesperson for a group of farmers who sued
La méfiance des rébellions ethniques
Saturday, February 11 2012
Depuis l’échec des pourparlers du 19 janvier dernier entre le gouvernement birman et la rébellion kachin, la question ethnique, ainsi qu’il est convenu d’appeler le problème des rapports entre le centre birman et la périphérie du pays peuplée de
Humanitarian concern about Kachin war refugees
Thursday, February 2 2012
Humanitarian workers in northern Burma have expressed deep concern about the health conditions of thousands of war refugees in Kachin State who have been displaced along the Sino-Burmese border for eight months. Aid workers said that preventable
“I think refugee repatriation is still far away,”
Wednesday, January 25 2012
“Progress can be seen only in big cities, not in our hometown,” says 61-year-old Saw Raw, sitting on the balcony of his house at the Mae La Oon refugee camp in Mae Sariang District in northern Thailand.“I think the day is still far away when we will
Rohingya children bear exclusion, restrictions and arbitrary treatment
Saturday, January 21 2012
The government has continued with a discriminatory policy against the Rohingya ethnic group in the country’s western Arakan state that includes banning Rohingya children born out of wedlock from obtaining travel permits, attending school and, in the
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