Karen Information Center

July 16, 2015
Five animist Karen Villages displaced from their traditional lands where their deities lived in Mutraw (Papun) District, Karen State have resumed...
Health Education at school ©Aya.TABATA
July 13, 2015
Dengue fever outbreaks on the Thai Burma border have affected hundreds of students, with many having to be hospitalized.
July 10, 2015
The government and ethnic groups’ representatives have agreed in principle to work towards signing the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) and the...
July 9, 2015
The fighting in Karen State between the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and Burma Army continued as negotiations to stop the fighting failed.
July 8, 2015
As fighting continues between the Burma Army and the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), the government has come under fire from a senior Karen...
July 7, 2015
Fighting between the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and the Burma Army is continuing along the newly opened Asia Highway 1.
July 3, 2015
Government troops and soldiers from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) clashed on the new Myawaddy – Kawkareik Asia Highway on the morning...
June 29, 2015
Human rights watchdog, Freedom House issued a statement condemning the contempt of court charges filed against 17 journalists in Burma saying that...
June 26, 2015
In an exclusive interview with Karen News, the International Non-Government Organisation, PU-AMI, outlined its plans to protect refugees on the Thai...
June 26, 2015
Representatives from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) met Karen community based organisations (CBOs) on 23 June to discuss...
June 24, 2015
The start of the regional wet season has seen an increase in dengue fever cases coming to Mae Tao Clinic located in the Thai-Burma border town of Mae...
Camp Fumigation (Photo-SI)
June 22, 2015
The threat of a dengue virus outbreak this coming wet season means that Thomas Viger, the Thailand program coordinator for Solidaritès International...