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September 9, 2016
The New York based human rights organisation Human Rights Watch has called on the US Government to retain ‘key sanctions’ in order to keep pressure...
Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
September 9, 2016
The House of Representatives Bill Committee submitted a privacy and security bill at the parliamentary session held on September 8.
Child soldiers release in 2013. Photo: Khine Zar Mon/UNICEF Myanmar
September 9, 2016
The Tatmadaw today released 55 children and young people as a result of coordinated efforts with the United Nations to implement the 2012 Joint...
 Meeting of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State
September 9, 2016
A local elder criticised the Arakan State Authorities for preventing Arakan civil society organisations (CSOs) from holding discussions with the...
EAO Leaders at the Union Peace Conference
September 9, 2016
Ethnic armed organisation (EAO) leaders who attended the first Union Peace Conference (the 21st Century Panglong Conference) believe that the genuine...
September 8, 2016
The Burma Army stopped a Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) vehicle transporting medicine to internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Eastern Kachin...
KNU Meeting About Union Peace Conference
September 8, 2016
After attending the Union Peace Conference (the 21st Century Panglong Conference) from 31 August to 3 September KNU members met with local youths,...
September 8, 2016
Armed clashes broke out in Karen State between splinter Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) forces and government backed militia.
September 8, 2016
Ethnic leaders have warned that now is not the time to give up arms, in reaction to a speech calling for disarmament by the Burmese Commander-in-...
September 8, 2016
One controversial and visible challenge coming out of the recently finished 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC) is the demand for the status of...
Lawyer U Robert Sann Aung in his Yangon home. Photo: Mizzima
September 8, 2016
Although just 12 percent of the population of Myanmar has access to the Internet, online speech is becoming an increasingly important theme in...
Front Row of Delegates at the Union Peace Conference on 3 September
September 7, 2016
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), a coalition of ethnic armed organisations (EAOs), will continue with tripartite negotiations in an...