PROGRESSIVE VOICE OF MYANMAR

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Vision
Progressive Voice envisions a federal democratic Myanmar that is free of discrimination and upholds the principles
of peace, justice, self-determination and human rights.
Mission
Our mission is to amplify the voices from the ground for a principled, rights-based policy narrative on Myanmar at
a local, national and international level through cooperative, collaborative, and participatory research, analysis and

advocacy.
Who We Are
Progressive Voice is a participatory rights-based policy research and advocacy organization rooted in civil society,
that maintains strong networks and relationships with grassroots organizations and community-based
organizations throughout Myanmar. It acts as a bridge to the international community and international
policymakers by amplifying voices from the ground, and advocating for a rights-based policy narrative.
Underpinning our work and identity is a commitment to human rights principles. We stand for the universality,
inalienability and absolute nature of human rights, and do not discriminate against people on grounds of race,
color, nationality, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, social standing, religion,
political or other beliefs.
We maintain a gender-inclusive staffing policy that also draws strength from the ethnic and religious diversity of
its staff while also aiming to foster and develop a young generation of people of Myanmar, particularly from
marginalized communities, that will take the organization forward in years to come as well as contributing to the
discourse and work towards democracy in Myanmar. Decision-making is principled, collective and consensus-
orientated within Progressive Voice, ensuring the values of inclusivity and active participation.
Progressive Voice’s research is done ethically, following the principle of ‘do no harm.’ Based on this research, we
produce independent and principled analysis that remains non-aligned and independent of any political parties and
political and religious institutions.
Progressive Voice focuses on three main thematic policy areas:

(1) Governance Reforms, including political, democratic, constitutional, administrative and institutional reform;
(2) Rule of Law, including access to justice, legislative and judicial reform, strengthening the space and work of
civil society and human rights defenders, and protecting religious minorities; and
(3) Sustainable Development, including labor rights, foreign investment, corruption, transparency and
accountability.
Human rights is a central issue that is reflected in all analyses, publications and policy recommendations.
What We Do
Working and cooperating with disenfranchised, further empower and marginalized communities and civil
society organizations, to amplify their voices, and concerns, thereby filling the gap between policy needs on
the ground and the policy-makers themselves.
Conducting independent, participatory research and analysis to equip relevant stakeholders and decision-
makers with principled, rights-based policy recommendations.
Advocating for institutional and structural reforms that comply with international human rights law and
standards as well as Myanmar’s international commitments and obligations.
Background
‘Progressive Voice,’ or in Burmese, ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံ ‘Shay Pyay Athan,’ was born out of Burma Partnership, a network
of organizations throughout the Asia-Pacific region, advocating for and mobilizing a movement for democracy and
human rights in Myanmar that was established in 2006.

Given the political changes in Myanmar since 2011, as well as the shifting civil society landscape inside the country
and on the border, the concept of the democracy movement for Myanmar transitioned to a more diverse and
broader scope. Thus, the original mandate of Burma Partnership, to serve as an advocacy organization for the
border-based and solidarity groups’ democracy movement, has shifted. Assessing this changing political and civil
society context and the new opportunities that it provides, Burma Partnership identified the need for a
participatory rights-based policy research and advocacy organization rooted in civil society that draws on the
concerns and perspectives of vulnerable, marginalized and disenfranchised communities, which is then used to
advocate at policy-making level, both domestically and internationally.
Based on Burma Partnership’s existing strengths, networks and values as well as the changing political and civil
society landscape, Progressive Voice was founded in October 2016 to create a link between the rights-based
movement on the ground and the policy makers at the highest level, through in-depth policy research and
analysis.
ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံံအေၾကာင္း
ေမွ်ာ္ မွန္းခ်က္
ခဲြျခားဖိႏွိပ္ဆက္ ဆံမႈကင္းၿပီး ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး၊ တရားမွ်တမႈ၊ ကိုယ္ ပုိင္ျပဌာန္းခြင့္ႏွင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအေျခခံမူမ်ားအား ကုိင္စဲြက် င့္သံုးေသာ
ဖက္ ဒရယ္ ဒီမုိကေရစီ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ေပၚထြန္းေရးအား ေမွ်ာ္ မွန္းသည္ ။
ဦးတည္ခ်က္

လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခခံစံႏႈန္းမ်ားႏွင့္ကိုက္ ညီသည့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံႏွင့္ပတ္ သက္ ေသာ မူ၀ါဒမ်ား ေပၚထြန္းလာေရးအတြက္ လူထုပူးေပါင္း
ပါ၀င္ေသာ သုေတသန၊ သံုးသပ္ခ်က္ ႏွင့္ စည္ းရုံးလႈံ႔ေဆာ္ ေရးတို႔မွတစ္ဆင့္ ေအာက္ ေျခ လူထုအသံမ်ားကို ေဒသႏၱရ၊ ႏိုင္ငံႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံ
တကာအဆင့္တို႔တြင္ျမႇင့္တင္ေပးသြားရန္ ျဖစ္သည္ ။
မိမိတုိ႔အၾကာင္း
ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံသည္ အရပ္ဘက္ လူထုအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းအား အေျချပဳကာ လူထုပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္မႈႏွင့္ အခြင့္အေရးကုိ အေျခခံေသာ မူ၀ါဒ
ဆိုင္ရာ သုေတသနႏွင့္ စည္ းရံုးလံႈ႔ေဆာ္ ေရးအဖဲြ႔တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ပါသည္ ။ ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံမွ ေအာက္ ေျခလူထုတုိ႔၏ အသံမ်ားအား ျမႇင့္တင္ေ
ပးကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအေျခခံသည့္ မူ၀ါဒမ်ား ေပၚထြန္းလာေရးအတြက္ စည္ းရံုးလႈံ႔ေဆာ္ ျခင္းျဖင့္ ရပ္ရြာလူထုအသုိင္းအ၀ိုင္းႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံ
အဆင့္ႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ မူ၀ါဒေရးဆြဲခ်မွတ္ သူမ်ားအၾကား ေပါင္းကူးသဖြယ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ ပါသည္ ။
မိမိတုိ႔ ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံလုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ ႏွင့္ ကုိယ္ ပုိင္လကၡဏာတုိ႔၏ ေက် ာေထာက္ ေနာက္ ခံမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခခံ စံခ်ိန္စံႏႈန္းမ်ားႏွ
င့္အညီ လိုက္ နာေဆာင္ရြက္ ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ ။ မိမိတို႔သည္ အလံုးစံုၿခံဳငံုၿပီး ခဲြထုတ္ မရႏုိင္ေသာ အၾကြင္းမဲ့ျဖစ္ေသာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး သေ
ဘာသဘာ၀အား စဲြကုိင္ကာ မည္ သူကုိမွ လူမ်ိဳး၊ အသားအေရာင္၊ တုိင္းရင္းသား၊ လူမ်ိဳးစု၊ လိင္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ က် ား/မေရးရာ၊ လိင္စိတ္ ခံ
ယူမႈ၊ အသက္ အရြယ္ ၊ မသန္စြမ္းမႈ၊ လူမႈေရးအဆင့္အတန္း၊ ကိုးကြယ္ သည့္ ဘာသာႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး သုိ႔မဟုတ္ အျခားေသာ ယံုၾကည္ မႈ
မ်ားအေပၚ အေျခခံသည့္ မည္ သည့္ ခဲြျခားဆက္ ဆံျခင္းမ်ိဳးမွ မလုပ္ေဆာင္ပါ။
မိမိတုိ႔အေနျဖင့္ က် ား/မ အေရအတြက္ မွ်တေစရန္ႏွင့္ မတူကြဲျပားမႈမ်ား ပါ၀င္ေရး ၀န္ထမ္းခန္႔အပ္ျခင္းမူ၀ါဒအား က် င့္သံုးသည္ ။ ထုိ
မူ၀ါဒ၏ ရည္ ရြယ္ ခ်က္ မွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရွိ အထူးသျဖင့္ ခဲြျခားဖိႏွိပ္ဖယ္ ၾကဥ္ခံအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းမ်ားမွ လူငယ္ မ်ိဳးဆက္ မ်ားအား လက္ ကမ္းႀကိဳ
ဆုိ လက္ တဲြပ်ိဳးေထာင္ျခင္းျဖင့္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္ းေရရွည္ တည္ တ့ ံရန္ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအတြက္ တစ္ဘက္ တစ္လမ္းမွ အေထာ
က္ အကူျဖစ္ေစရန္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္ ။ အဖြဲ႔၏ ဆံုးျဖတ္ ခ်က္ မ်ား ခ်မွတ္ ရာတြင္ အားလံုးမွ တက္ ၾကြစြာ ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ေဆာင္ရြက္ မႈျဖင့္ မူကို
အေျခခံ၍ အမ်ားဆႏၵအား ဦးတည္ သည့္ စုေပါင္းေဆြးေႏြးဆံုးျဖတ္ သည့္ စနစ္ကို အသံုးျပဳပါသည္ ။
ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံ၏ သုေတသနလုပ္ငန္းကို ‘မည္ သူမွ ထိခုိက္ နစ္နာျခင္း မရွိေစေရး ‘ မူအား လက္ ကုိင္ျပဳကာ က် င့္၀တ္ သိကၡာႏွင့္အညီ ေ
ဆာင္ရြက္ ပါသည္ ။ ဤသုေတသနအေပၚအေျခခံ၍ မည္ သည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီ၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရးႏွင့္ ဘာသာေရးအေဆာက္ အအံုမ်ားဘက္ မွ ဘ

က္ လိုက္ မႈမရွိဘဲ လြတ္ လပ္အမွီအခုိကင္းၿပီး မူကိုအေျခခံေသာ သုေတသနျပဳမႈႏွင့္ ခဲြျခမ္းစိတ္ ျဖာသံုးသပ္မႈမ်ားကို ေဖာ္ ထုတ္ ပါသည္ ။
ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံမွ ဦးစားေပးအေၾကာင္းအရာ (၃) ရပ္အား အဓိကထား လုပ္ေဆာင္ပါသည္ ။ ထုိအေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားမွာ –
(၁)အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈမ်ား – ထိုအထဲတြင္ ႏုိင္ငံေရး၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး၊ ဖဲြ႔စည္ းပံုအေျခခံဥပေဒဆုိင္ရာ၊ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးႏွင့္ အေ
ဆာက္ အအံုပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးမ်ား အပါအ၀င္ျဖစ္သည္ ။
(၂) တရားဥပေဒစိုးမိုးေရး – ထိုအထဲတြင္ တရားမွ်တမႈ လက္ လွမ္းမီရရွိႏိုင္ေရး၊ ဥပေဒျပဳေရးႏွင့္ တရားစီရင္ေရးက႑မ်ား ျပဳျပင္ေျပာ
င္းလဲေရး၊ အရပ္ဘက္ လူထုအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္း လုပ္ပုိင္ခြင့္ႏွင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကာကြယ္ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ သူမ်ား၏အလုပ္အား ျမႇင့္တင္ေရးႏွင့္
ကာကြယ္ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ ေရး စသည့္ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးမ်ား အပါအ၀င္ျဖစ္သည္ ။
(၃) ေရရွည္တည္တံ့ခုိင္ၿမဲသည့္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈ – ထိုအထဲတြင္ အလုပ္သမားအခြင့္အေရး၊ ႏုိင္ငံျခားရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ၊ အက် င့္ပ်က္ ျခ
စားမႈ၊ ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာမႈႏွင့္ တာ၀န္ယူမႈတာ၀န္ခံမႈရွိေရးတုိ႔ အပါအ၀င္ျဖစ္သည္ ။
ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံ၏ သံုးသပ္ခ်က္ မ်ား၊ ထုတ္ ေ၀မႈမ်ား ႏွင့္ မူ၀ါဒဆိုင္ရာ အၾကံျပဳခ်က္ မ်ားအားလံုးတြင္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအေျခခံ စံခ်ိန္စံႏႈန္း
မ်ားကို ဗဟိုျပဳသည္ ။
ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္
ခဲြျခား ဖယ္ ၾကဥ္ ဖိႏွိပ္ခံ အားနည္ းေသာ အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းမ်ား၊ အရပ္ဘက္ လူထုအဖဲြ႔အစည္ းမ်ားႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ ကာ ေအာ
က္ ေျခလူထုအသံမ်ား၊ ၎တုိ႔အေလးထားသည့္ ကိစၥရပ္မ်ားအား ျမႇင့္တင္ ေပးကာ မူ၀ါဒေရးရာလုိအပ္ခ်က္ မ်ားႏွင့္ မူ၀ါဒေရးဆဲြခ်
မွတ္ သူမ်ားၾကား ရွိေနသည့္ ကြာဟခ်က္ အား ျဖည့္ ဆည္ းေပးသြားရန္၊
လြတ္ လပ္အမွီခုိကင္းၿပီး လူထုပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ေသာ သုေတသနႏွင့္ ပိုင္းျခားစိတ္ ျဖာသံုးသပ္ခ်က္ မ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ကာ သက္ ဆုိင္ရာ
ဆက္ စပ္ပတ္ သက္ သူမ်ားႏွင့္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ ခ်က္ ခ်မွတ္ သူမ်ားအား လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခခံစံႏႈန္းမ်ားႏွင့္ကုိက္ ညီေသာ မူ၀ါဒေရးရာ အၾ
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၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္မွ စတင္ခဲ့သည့္ ျမန္မာ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အေျပာင္းအလဲမ်ားႏွင့္ ျပည္ တြင္းႏွင့္ နယ္ စပ္အေျခစိုက္ အရပ္ဘက္ လူထုအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္း
အခင္းအက် င္းအေျပာင္းအလဲမ်ားအေပၚ အေျခခံ၍ ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီလႈပ္ရွားမႈ အယူအဆသည္ ပိုမိုစံုလင္က် ယ္ ျပန္႔သည့္ နယ္ ပယ္ အ
တိုင္းအတာသို႔ ကူးေျပာင္းသြားခဲ့သည္ ။ ထိုနည္ းတူ နယ္ စပ္အေျခစိုက္ ႏွင့္ ေသြးစည္ းညီညြတ္ ေရးအဖြဲ႔မ်ား၏ ဒီမိုကေရစီလႈပ္ရွားမႈအ
တြက္ စည္ းရံုးလႈံ႔ေဆာ္ ေရးအဖြဲ႔ အျဖစ္ အက် ဳိးေဆာင္ရန္ အပ္ႏွင္းခံရသည့္ ျမန္မာ့ အေရးပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ သူမ်ားအဖြဲ႔၏ မူလတာ၀န္
သည္ လည္ း ေရြ႕ေျပာင္းခဲ့သည္ ။ ေျပာင္းလဲေနေသာ ႏုိင္ငံေရးႏွင့္ အရပ္ဘက္ လူထုအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္း အခင္းအက် င္းႏွင့္ အခြင့္အလမ္းသ
စ္မ်ားကို ဆန္းစစ္၍ မူ၀ါဒေရးဆြဲခ်မွတ္ ရာတြင္ ခြဲျခား၊ ဖယ္ ၾကဥ္၊ ဖိႏွိပ္ခံနွင့္ အားနည္ းေသာ လူထုအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းမ်ား၏ စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္မႈႏွင့္
အျမင္သေဘာထားမ်ားကို အေျခခံၿပီး ၎တို႔ကို ထင္ဟပ္ေသာ မူ၀ါဒမ်ား ေပၚေပါက္ လာေရးအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံအဆင့္ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအ
ဆင့္ စည္ းရံုးလႈံ႔ေဆာ္ ေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္မည့္ လူထုအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းအား အေျချပဳေသာ သုေတသနႏွင့္ စည္ းရံုးလႈ႔ံေဆာ္ ေရး အဖြဲ႔အစည္ း
တစ္ခု လိုအပ္ခ်က္ ရွိသည္ ကို ျမန္မာ့ အေရးပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ သူမာ် းအဖဲြ႔မွ သံုးသပ္ခဲ့သည္ ။
ျမန္မာ့ အေရးပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ သူမ်ားအဖဲြ႔၏ ရွိရင္းစြဲ အားသာခ်က္ မ်ားႏွင့္ ကြန္ရက္ မ်ား၊ တန္ဖုိးထားမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ေျပာင္းလဲေနသည့္ ႏုိင္
ငံေရးႏွင့္ အရပ္ဘက္ အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္း အခင္းအက် င္းတုိ႔အား အေျချပဳ၍ အခြင့္အေရးႏွင့္ လူထုပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္မႈကုိ အေျခခံေသာ မူ၀ါဒ
ဆုိင္္ရာ နက္ နဲသည့္ သုေတသန၊ ထိေရာက္ သည့္ သုေတသနႏွင့္ စည္ းရံုးလႈ႔ံေဆာ္ ျခင္းမ်ား ေဆာင္ရြက္ ျခင္းျဖင့္ ရပ္ရြာလူထုအသိုင္း
အ၀ိုင္းႏွင့္ မူ၀ါဒေရးဆြဲခ်မွတ္ သူမ်ားအၾကား ခ်ိတ္ ဆက္ မႈ ဖန္တီးေပးရန္အတြက္ ရည္ ရြယ္ ၍ ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံကို ၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္ ေအာက္ တုိ
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Posted December 22nd, 2017 • Posted in Blog Posts • Author: Progressive Voice
2017 in History as Watershed Year for Human Rights Situation in
Myanmar
As 2017 draws to a close, any last shred of optimism regarding progress in human rights and democracy in
Myanmar[1] has been emphatically blown away by the Myanmar Army’s campaign of violence in northern Rakhine
State. It is important to note, however, that while international attention needs to remain focused on the Rohingya
crisis, there are pressing and urgent problems throughout the country that must be addressed in 2018, including
the victims of armed conflict in Kachin and northern Shan States, an increasingly repressive media environment,
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rising anti-Muslim discrimination, and a failing peace process. All of which are underpinned by the impunity and
power of the Myanmar Army.
2017 began with the dark shadow of U Ko Ni’s assassination at Yangon International Airport in January. A
renowned constitutional expert and legal advisor to the National League for Democracy, his murder in broad
daylight was a huge blow, not just to his family and others around him, but to the country’s democratic progress.
The perpetrators have still not been brought to justice.
The year also began with the fallout from October 2016’s violent crackdown in Rakhine State after the newly-
emerged Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) launched attacks against border guard posts. 135,000 Rohingya
fled to Bangladesh during the violence and the subsequent flash report by the Officer of the High Commissioner of
Human Rights detailed horrific and systematic human rights abuses leading to the UN Human Rights Council
mandating a fact-finding mission (FFM) to independently investigate the violations committed by the Myanmar
Army and its related security forces.Their investigation, in which a final report will be presented in September
2018, will cover not only the situation in Rakhine State, but also other parts of the country including northern Shan
and Kachin State since 2011. The Government, however, is still refusing access to the country for the FFM
members.
The situation in northern Rakhine State took a dramatic turn for the worse in August 2017, when another violent
crackdown after the Myanmar Government-alleged surprise attacks by ARSA, resulted in a scale of violence
shocking even by the known behavior of the Myanmar Army. Over 655,000 Rohingya (as of 14 December, 2017)
have fled to temporary refugee camps in Bangladesh, as the Myanmar Army systematically burned villages,
murdered, raped and tortured their way through the area. Both the UN Secretary-General and the High
Commissioner for Human Rights have labeled the crisis ‘ethnic cleansing.’ While a bilateral repatriation agreement
has been signed between the Governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar, the terms of the agreement mean that in

reality it will be almost impossible for most of the Rohingya to return, and many of those who are legally able will
likely not want to return without guarantees of equality, safety and restitution of lost and destroyed property.
This crisis has torn apart society in Myanmar, with hate speech, fear, disinformation and a rhetoric espousing
security against ‘Bengali’ illegal immigrants and Islamic terrorism commonplace. It should be noted that some
brave organizations remain committed to speaking out for the Rohingya and other of the most marginalized
communities in the country. The Karen National Union, Myanmar’s oldest ethnic armed organization, remembering
the violence committed by the Myanmar Army in Karen State, stated that they regret “witnessing the repeat of this
history.” Karen Women’s Organization has issued a strong statement denouncing the Myanmar Army’s use of rape
against Rohingya women while its umbrella, the Women’s League of Burma also condemned how “widespread
propaganda is inflating the threat of ‘terrorism’ in Rakhine State to fuel religious and racial extremism” and how
this is “creating fear, insecurity, and hatred among different communities.” This fear and hatred has become
manifest in broader anti-Muslim hate speech and discriminatory actions with Ma Ba Tha (The Association for the
Protection of Race and Religion) leader and ultranationalist monk, Wirathu, continuing to tour the country,
spreading ugly rhetoric about the Muslim minority.
“Widespread propaganda is inflating the threat of ‘terrorism’ in Rakhine State to fuel religious and racial extremism” and how this is “creating
fear, insecurity, and hatred among different communities.”
— Women’s League of Burma
Ethnic minorities in Myanmar have borne the brunt of the Myanmar Army’s abuse and military offensives for many
generations, including during this time of so-called democratic transition. The worst of the fighting in the past 12
months has been in Kachin and northern Shan States, but periodic clashes have also occurred in other parts of the
country such as Karen State. The historical record of the abuse and militarization of southeast Myanmar is
highlighted in the report, “Foundation of Fear,” by the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG), which outlines the
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patterns of abuse over the past 25 years since the KHRG was founded. Not just a historical record, the report
seeks to highlight the importance of transitional justice for the victims, many of whom suffer trauma due to the
abuse by the Myanmar Army. The need for justice was also highlighted by the Human Rights Foundation of
Monland in a report “I Still Remember,” which states “Rather than acknowledging Burma’s history of vast human
rights violations, the current administration in Burma seems unwilling or unable to address its violent past, instead
resorting to victim blaming when individuals are unable to forget the violence inflicted upon them.”
The hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) from these Myanmar Army
offensives and abuses stand as a testament to the violence. It is vital that these displaced persons continue to
receive humanitarian support, but 2017 has seen a drastic reduction of essential provisions from international
donors to Shan and Karen refugee and IDP camps, while restrictions on the delivery of aid in Kachin State mean
that for many of the predominantly Christian IDPs, their Christmas will see them going hungry. A campaign from
Kachin civil society is underway, as it has been for the past few years, to raise money for these war victims.
While the human rights situation has further deteriorated in 2017, the media environment – particularly important
in these troubling times – has become more restricted and dangerous. Reuters journalists, Thet Oo Maung – more
commonly known as Wa Lone and – Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on 12 December, 2017 and charged under the
Official Secrets Act. This is just the latest in a long list of judicial harassment of media workers carrying out their
legitimate work. Others include Aung Naing Soe and journalists from the Turkish state broadcaster, who are still in
jail after flying a drone near Parliament, and Lawi Weng and his colleagues from the Irrawaddy and the
Democratic Voice of Burma who were arrested after covering a drug-burning ceremony of the Ta’ang National
Liberation Army. It is telling that these media workers have been prominent in reporting on ethnic and religious
minorities.

2017 will be remembered in Myanmar and throughout the world and not for the reasons many had hoped after
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy had come to power. Yet it must be remembered if
the processes of national reconciliation and democratization are to find their footing. Without truth, accountability
and transitional justice, the many victims of the violence and abuse of the Myanmar Army – whether the Rohingya
in northern Rakhine State, refugees living in camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border, Kachin spending yet
another Christmas relying on donations in IDP camps in the north of the country, or journalists harassed and jailed
for doing their job, the narrative of transition, democracy, peace and human rights will be empty. The past year
has perhaps shown the limitations of this narrative more bluntly than ever. The stage-managed political changes
to the country since 2011, in which the Myanmar Army retains its power and acts with impunity, has resulted in
the continuing suffering of the most marginalized and a huge democratic deficit. As 2017 ends as a watershed
moment for the human rights situation, Progressive Voice renews its commitment to continue to amplify voices
from the ground, especially of the most vulnerable and marginalized. Progressive Voice hopes for a brighter 2018,
but also one in which the perpetrators of the abuses are held accountable, including the international community
pursuing all available mechanisms for justice.
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We look forward to continuing our work with you in the coming year. Our Weekly Highlights will take a short
hiatus over the holidays, but we will return with a full issue on 15 January 2018. We wish you happy holidays and
all the best for 2018.
All the best,
Aung Khaing Min
Executive Director
Progressive Voice

Khin Ohmar
Chair of the Board of Advisory
Progressive Voice
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recognized and not forgotten. Thus, under certain circumstances, ‘Burma’ is used.
Resources from the past week
Statements and Press Releases
Statement by Sweden at the UN Security Council Briefing on Myanmar
By Ambassador Olof Skoog on behalf of Sweden
12 Journalists’ Groups Condemn Arrest of Reuters Reporters
By Arakan Journalist Association, Burma News International, Myanmar Journalists Association, Myanmar Journalist

Network, Myanmar Journalist Union, Myanmar Women Journalists Society, Myanmar Media Lawyers’ Network,
Myae Latt Journalist Network, Myanmar Journalist Network (Ayarwaddy), Lashio Reporters Group, Myanmar
Journalist Network (Monywa) and Taunggyi Journalist Association
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအစိုးရလွ် ိဳ႕၀ွက္ ခ်က္ မ်ား အက္ ဥပေဒျဖင့္ ဖမ္းဆီးထားသည့္ သတင္းေထာက္ ႏွစ္ဦးႏွင့္ပတ္ သက္ ၍ ေတာင္းဆုိခ်က္
By Arakan Journalist Association, Burma News International, Myanmar Journalists Association, Myanmar Journalist
Network, Myanmar Journalist Union, Myanmar Women Journalists Society, Myanmar Media Lawyers’ Network,
Myae Latt Journalist Network, Myanmar Journalist Network (Ayarwaddy), Lashio Reporters Group, Myanmar
Journalist Network (Monywa) and Taunggyi Journalist Association
Arrest of Two Burmese Journalists Part of Worrying Pattern of Targeting Media
By Burma Human Rights Network
Myanmar: Stop Persecuting Rohingya, MEPs Keep Urging
By European Parliament
FCCT Statement on the Arrest of Two Reuters Journalists in Myanmar
By Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand
Myanmar: Release Wrongfully Arrested Journalists, Protect Press Freedoms
By Fortify Rights
HRW’s Letter Regarding Myanmar-Bangladesh “Arrangement” on Rohingya Refugees
By Human Rights Watch

Burma: Rohingya Return Deal Bad for Refugees
UN Security Council Meeting a Chance to Act on Myanmar
Burma: 40 Rohingya Villages Burned Since October
Burma: Methodical Massacre at Rohingya Village
By Human Rights Network
Reuters Journalists Detained in Myanmar: Respect their Rights, End their Incommunicado Detention
By International Commission for Jurists
Independent International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar concludes visit to Malaysia
By Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Two journalists arrested for reporting the Rakhine State crisis, face 14-year jail term under the Official Secrets Act
By The Southeast Asian Press Alliance
လက္ ရွိၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးျဖစ္စဥ္ႏွင့္ပတ္ သက္ ၍သေဘာထားထုတ္ ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
By United Nationalities Federal Council – Burma
Myanmar Must Prioritize Protection of Civilians in Rakhine State, Address the Roots of the Conflict
By 108 Human Rights Organizations

Reports
Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: A Summary of Findings from Six Pooled Surveys
By Doctors Without borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
The Young Women From Rural Villages Powering and Urban Industry: A Baseline Survey of Rangon’s Garment
Sector Workforce
By Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation
66(d): No real change
By Free Expression Myanmar
Massacre by the River: Burmese Army Crimes against Humanity in Tula Toli
Foundation of Fear: 25 years of Villagers’ Voices from Southeast Myanmar
By Karen Human Rights Group
အေၾကာက္ တရား၏ အုတ္္ ျမစ္။ ။ ၂၅ ႏွစ္အတြင္း မွတ္ တမ္းတင္ထားေသာ ျမန္မာျပည္ အေရွ႕ေတာင္ပိုင္းမွ ႐ြာသားမ်ား၏အသံမ်ား
By Karen Human Rights Group

Report: Violence in Rakhine State and the UK’s Response
By The Foreign Affairs Committee
Myanmar Humanitarian Fund: 2017 Overview
By UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Progressive Voice was born out of the work of Burma Partnership and formally established in October 2016.
Comprehensive resources on the situation of human rights in Myanmar prior to the establishment of Progressive
Voice can still be found on Burma Partnership’s website at www.burmapartnership.org
၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္ ေအာက္ တိုဘာလတြင္ ျမန္မာ့ အေရးပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ သူမ်ားအဖြဲ႔မွ ေရွ႕ေျပးအသံအဖြဲ႔သို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲဖြဲ႔စည္ းခဲ့သည္ ။
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January 15, 2018 • Author: Women's League of Burma and the Salween Institute for Public Policy
Promoting Gender Equality in Myanmar: Policies and Strategies – “က် ားမ
တန္းတူေရး ျမွင့္တင္ျခင္းဆုိင္ရာ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာမ်ား မူဝါဒေရးရာ စာတမ္း”
စာတမ္းအႏွစ္ခ်ဳပ္ ဤစာတမ္း၏ ပထမအပို္င္း တြင္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးႏွင့္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ ခ်က္ ခ်မွတ္ ျခင္းမ်ားတြင္ အ�... Read more ►
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January 15, 2018 • Author: International Development Committee
Bangladesh and Burma: The Rohingya Crisis
Introduction Burma 1.In the past several months1 the international community has watched as a huge human
tragedy unfolded for the Rohingya people living in the northern Burmese state of Rakhine.2 In a culmination of
many decades of discrimination, marginalisation and abuse... Read more ►
January 11, 2018 • Author: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: Burma
Chapter – 2017 Annual report
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Key findings The year 2016 marked a historic and peaceful transition of government in Burma, also known as
Myanmar. Yet while the political handover occurred without incident, conditions during the year continued to
decline for Rohingya Muslims, as well as for other religiou... Read more ►
January 10, 2018 • Author: Burma Campaign UK
Submission from Burma Campaign UK: International Development
Committee Inquiry – DFID’s country programme in Burma and
Bangladesh
1 . Burma Campaign UK has been working for human rights, democracy and development in Burma since 1991. 2.
Executive Summary DFID grants in Burma are largely inaccessible for smaller NGOs, especially organisations with
a focus on human rights and which are more ... Read more ►
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January 9, 2018 • Author: Marixie Mercado, UNICEF spokesperson in Geneva
Geneva Palais briefing note: The situation of children in Rakhine State,
Myanmar
This is a summary of what was said by Marixie Mercado, UNICEF spokesperson in Geneva – to whom quoted text
may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. GENEVA, 9 January 2018 – “I
spent 6 December through 3 January in Myan... Read more ►
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December 19, 2017 • Author: Human Rights Watch
Massacre by the River: Burmese Army Crimes against Humanity in Tula
Toli
Summary On August 30, 2017, Hassina Begum, a 20-year-old ethnic Rohingya woman, was among the few
survivors of a massacre of unspeakable brutality. Just days after a deadly attack by Rohingya militants against
Burmese security forces, hundreds of Burmese soldiers in uniform,... Read more ►
December 15, 2017 • Author: Karen Human Rights Group
အေၾကာက္တရား၏ အုတ္္ျမစ္။ ။ ၂၅ ႏွစ္အတြင္း မွတ္တမ္းတင္ထားေသာ ျမန္မာျပည္
အေရွ႕ေတာင္ပိုင္းမွ ႐ြာသားမ်ား၏အသံမ်ား
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အစီရင္ခံစာ ျမန္မာဘာသာကုိ ဤေနရာတြင္ ရယူႏုိင္သည္ ။ အစီရင္ခံစာ အႏွစ္ခ်ဳပ္ ျမန္မာဘာသာကုိ ဤေနရာတြင္ �... Read
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December 15, 2017 • Author: Karen Human Rights Group
Foundation of Fear: 25 years of Villagers’ Voices from Southeast
Myanmar
Executive Summary and Introduction KHRG presents ‘Foundation of Fear’, an extensive 25 years review, with the
intention of amplifying the voices of rural communities in southeast Myanmar and making their perspectives
central to understand the human rights abuses that th... Read more ►
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December 14, 2017 • Author: Doctors Without borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: A Summary of Findings from Six Pooled
Surveys
Background On 25 August 2017, a counter-insurgency military operation in Rakhine State, Myanmar, led to a mass
displacement of Rohingya civilians into Bangladesh. Over the following three months, some 626,000 Rohingya
crossed into Bangladesh to escape the violence. To assess... Read more ►
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December 12, 2017 • Author: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Myanmar Humanitarian Fund: 2017 Overview
The Myanmar Humanitarian Fund (MHF) mobilizes resources for partners to respond to the critical humanitarian
needs in Myanmar. In 2017, a total of US$9.8 million has been allocated to 25 projects targeting 443,300 persons,
of which 54% are women and girls, and 49%, children ... Read more ►
December 12, 2017 • Author: Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation
The Young Women From Rural Villages Powering and Urban Industry: A
Baseline Survey of Rangon’s Garment Sector Workforce
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In May 2017, C&A Foundation commissioned Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation
and Andaman Research & Advisory to undertake a study of the garment sector workforce. C&A Foundation and its
partners recognized there was a lack of a strong quanti... Read more ►
December 11, 2017 • Author: The Foreign Affairs Committee
Report: Violence in Rakhine State and the UK’s Response
Summary The violence against the Rohingya in Northern Rakhine in Burma amounts to ethnic cleansing, and may
also constitute crimes against humanity and even genocide. The displacement of over 600,000 people to
Bangladesh is a compelling sign of a desperate population, and th... Read more ►
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December 11, 2017 • Author: Free Expression Myanmar
66(d): No real change
Executive summary Over the past two years, Article 66(d) has been the tool of choice for those in positions of
power who want to punish those who are trying to hold them accountable. The government’s amendment of 66(d)
in August 2017 has had no discernible impact on th... Read more ►
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December 10, 2017 • Author: Human Rights Foundation of Monland
“‘I Still Remember’: Desires for acknowledgment and justice for human
rights violations in Mon areas of southern Burma.”
Since Burma’s transition from a military government to a nominally civilian-led one beginning in 2010, ‘national
reconciliation’ has become a ubiquitous concept amongst politicians and those advocating for peace in Burma after
more than 60 years of civil war. With the ... Read more ►
December 10, 2017 • Author: Refugees International
Suffering in Shadows: Aid Restrictions and Reductions Endanger
Displaced Persons in Northern Myanmar
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The suffering of civilians and forced displacement of ethnic minorities by the Myanmar military goes beyond the
ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in the west of the country. In northern Myanmar, nearly 100,000 people
continue to live in displacement camps in Kachin and no... Read more ►

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January 17, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice
2018 Must Seek to Hold the Myanmar Army Accountable and End its
Impunity and Crimes Against Minorities
2018 begins in the same vein that 2017 finished, with the continued military offensives, the denial of access to
independent human rights investigators and the continuing arrests of journalists. Further, the deteriorating human
rights situation in Myanmar is inextricably lin... Read more ►
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December 22, 2017 • Author: Progressive Voice
2017 in History as Watershed Year for Human Rights Situation in
Myanmar
As 2017 draws to a close, any last shred of optimism regarding progress in human rights and democracy in
Myanmar[1] has been emphatically blown away by the Myanmar Army’s campaign of violence in northern Rakhine
State. It is important to note, however, that while internati... Read more ►
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Special Circumstances Require Special Efforts for Accountability
In light of the continuing crisis in northern Rakhine State, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) held a special
session on 5 December, 2017, issuing a resolution condemning “alleged systematic and gross violations of human
rights and abuses committed against persons belongin... Read more ►
Building Trust into the Peace Process
On 27 November, 2017, the government, military and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) agreed to delay the third
21st Century Panglong Conference until the final week of January 2018. This agreement was the latest in a series
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of procedural delays and substantively-unproductive... Read more ►
November 29, 2017 • Author: Progressive Voice
Leave No One Behind: Support and Justice for Rohingya Women
Survivors of Sexual Violence
Every year, from 25 November until 10 December, 2017, women’s rights activists, along with the United Nations
and various governments, commemorate “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.” For 2017, the
United Nations Secretary-General’s campaign, UNiTE to... Read more ►
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The Perilous Defense of Human Rights
Amid a catastrophic human rights crisis, the space for civil society and human rights defenders is shrinking as
protests in Yangon are banned, a land rights defender is beaten to death, and spurious charges are used to silence
those who speak out against the military’s vio... Read more ►
Challenging Hate with Solidarity and Recognition
On 30 October, 2017, one of Myanmar’s most famous and influential Buddhist monks – Ashin Nyanissara, better
known as Sitagu Sayadaw – gave a sermon to Myanmar[1] military officers in which he told a parable that has
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been taken by many as an attempt to offer mor... Read more ►
The Flight of Free Press Downed by Myanmar Authorities
In this turbulent and troubling time in Myanmar[1] accurate and brave reporting comes at a high cost. The arrest
of two foreign and one local journalist as well as their driver for flying a drone in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw,
the sentencing of two ethnic Kachin pastors w... Read more ►
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Myanmar Must Act to Prevent Violence Against Women in Conflict and
Provide Justice for Victims
On 27 October, 2017, the annual UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security focused the
attention of the UN system on the successes and gaps in implementing UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution
1325. The debate covered a number of conflict-affected countrie... Read more ►
October 25, 2017 • Author: Progressive Voice
The Responsibility of Business
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While the horrors of Rakhine State Crisis continue to emerge, it is business as usual for the private sector in
Myanmar[1], including those with long-standing interests in Rakhine State. Yet if international corporations were
committed to sustainable investment that would be... Read more ►
History Must Stop Repeating Itself for Myanmar’s Minorities
A new report by the UN Human Rights Office based on interviews with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh that fled
the latest Myanmar[1] Army crackdown reaffirms the reports from media and human rights organizations of
terrible suffering in light of atrocities against the civilia... Read more ►
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Myanmar Government Must Act to Protect Religious Minorities
Amid the violence and terror in Rakhine State, a broader anti Islamophobia that has been systematically
embedded in Myanmar[1] for the past few years is becoming more and more prominent through online hate
speech, intolerant actions, and exclusion. On 5 October, 2017, at Shw... Read more ►
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UN Must Act to Stop Myanmar Army’s Brutal Campaigns Against Rohingya
As thousands of refugees continue to stream over the border to Bangladesh, Progressive Voice joins 87 other civil
society organizations to call for UN member states to take swift and decisive action against those responsible for
committing atrocities against innocent people.... Read more ►
September 27, 2017 • Author: Progressive Voice
Facts Must Prevail
On 19 September, 2017, the Chairperson of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Myanmar[1], Marzuki
Darusman, addressed the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for the first time since the FFM was mandated by the
HRC in March 2017. Since then, the grave deterioration of th... Read more ►
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September 21, 2017 • Author: Progressive Voice
Humanitarian Aid for IDPs and Refugees Must Continue until Myanmar
Army’s Terror Campaigns Stop
The crisis in Rakhine State needs international action, not only to stop the campaign of terror inflicted upon
innocent civilians, but also in the form of humanitarian aid for the 410,000 people who have fled into Bangladesh.
The need for support to the victims of the Myanm... Read more ►
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January 16, 2018 • Author: UNHCR
UNHCR Notes Bangladesh, Myanmar Talks; Stresses Importance of
Returns Meeting International Standards
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, notes yesterday’s (15 January) meeting of the Joint Working Group on returns
between the Governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar, in Naypiydaw, Myanmar. They reportedly discussed the
implementation of their bilateral arrangement signed on 23 Nov... Read more ►
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January 16, 2018 • Author: Burma Human Rights Network
Investigation Needed in Northern Rakhine State into Possibility of More
Mass Graves
16 January, 2018, London, UK — The Burma Human Rights Network believes the recent admission of guilt in the
murder of ten Rohingya found in a mass grave in Inn Din village is only a small portion of greater crimes which
occured in the area that have yet to be acknowled... Read more ►
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January 15, 2018 • Author: Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
Children of Myanmar Still Victims of Grave Violations Despite Measures to
End Recruitment and Use
The United Nations Secretary-General, in his fourth report on the impact of armed conflict on children in Myanmar,
documents progress in the Government of Myanmar’s efforts to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers, but
notes that on-going clashes and the recent wa... Read more ►
January 15, 2018 • Author: European Commission
EU Steps Up Support to Address the Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh
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The European Union has adopted a new €5 million programme to support the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh,
strengthening its response to the crisis. The new initiative aims at supporting the identification and registration of
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, at facilitat... Read more ►
January 12, 2018 • Author: International Federation of Journalists
Myanmar: Journalists Charged under Official Secrets Act
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on authorities of Myanmar to immediately release two
Reuters journalists who were charged yesterday under Official Secret Act and are facing up to 14 years
imprisonment over their coverage of the Rohingya refugee crisis... Read more ►
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January 12, 2018 • Author: Human Rights Watch
Burma: Privacy Law Used to Prosecute Critics
(Bangkok) – Burmese authorities should not pursue a criminal complaint brought under Burma’s privacy law
against a Facebook user for posts critical of a state chief minister, Human Rights Watch said today. Parliament
should promptly amend the privacy law, enacted in Ma... Read more ►
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January 11, 2018 • Author: Fortify Rights
Myanmar: Drop Charges, Release Arbitrarily Detained Journalists
(YANGON, January 11, 2018)—The Government of Myanmar should immediately release and drop charges against
two Reuters journalists arbitrarily detained since December 12, Fortify Rights said today. The trial against Wa Lone
and Kyaw Soe Oo is scheduled to begin on January 23... Read more ►
January 11, 2018 • Author: John McCAIN, US Senator
SASC Chairman John McCain Calls for the Release of Reuters Journalists
Detained in Burma
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
released the following statement today calling for the release of two Reuters journalists who were arrested and
formally charged in Burma: “The outrageous arrest and pr... Read more ►
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January 11, 2018 • Author: Burma Human Rights Network
Burma Must Release Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo Immediately
11 January, 2018, London UK — On Wednesday, January 10th, 2018 Burma formally charged Reuters Journalists
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo violating the country’s Secrets Act, an antiquated law from the colonial era, for
supposedly receiving confidential military information.... Read more ►
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January 10, 2018 • Author: Amnesty International
Myanmar: Military’s mass grave admission exposes extrajudicial killings of
Rohingya
Following today’s admission by Myanmar’s military that security forces and villagers summarily killed 10 captured
Rohingya people and buried them in a mass grave outside Inn Din, a village in Maungdaw, Rakhine State, James
Gomez, Amnesty International’s Regional Direct... Read more ►
January 9, 2018 • Author: Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders Urges Myanmar to Free Two Reuters
Reporters
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call for the immediate release of two Burmese reporters working for
the Reuters news agency who are due to appear in court again in Yangon tomorrow, when new charges could be
brought against them. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe ... Read more ►
January 9, 2018 • Author: United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
Rohingya Children Trapped in ‘Appalling’ Conditions in Myanmar’s
Rakhine State
9 January 2018 – While the eyes of the world are on Myanmar’s northern Rakhine and Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh,
more than 60,000 Rohingya children remain nearly forgotten, trapped in appalling camps in central Rakhine where
the shelters teeter on stilts above garb... Read more ►
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January 9, 2018 • Author: Karenni Civil Society Network
ေကအဲန္ပီပီရဲေဘာ္ သုံးဦး ႏွင့္ အရပ္သားတစ္ဦးအား ဥပေဒမဲ့သတ္ျဖတ္မႈအေပၚ ကရင္
နီလူမႈအဖြဲ႔အစည္းကြန္ယက္၏ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
ကရင္နီ လူမႈအဖြဲ႔အစည္ းကြန္ယက္ (ေကစီအက္ စ္အဲန္) အေနျဖင့္ ၂၀၁၇ခုႏွစ္၊ ဒီဇဘၤာလ(၂၀)ရက္ ေန႔တြင္ ျမန္မာစစ္တ�... Read
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January 9, 2018 • Author: Karenni Civil Society Network
Karenni Civil Society Network on the extrajudicial killing of three KNPP
soldiers and one civilian
The Karenni Civil Society Network (KCSN) strongly condemns the extrajudicial killing of three Karenni National
Progressive Party (KNPP) soldiers and one civilian by the Burma Army on December 20, 2017. The killing was in
retaliation for KNPP soldiers searching Burma Army tru... Read more ►
January 9, 2018 • Author: Amnesty International
Myanmar: Reuters Journalists Must be Released
The Myanmar authorities must immediately release two journalists from the Reuters news agency who have been
arbitrarily detained for investigating military abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Amnesty International said. The
two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, are due... Read more ►
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January 14, 2018 • Author: 113 Civil Society Organizations
ၿမန္မာႏုုိင္ငံတြင္း လူငယ္မ်ား မတရားဖမ္းဆီး၊အက် ဥ္းခ်၊ တရားစြဲခံရမွုုမ်ားအေပၚ ေက် ာ
င္းသား၊ လူငယ္၊ အရပ္ဘက္ အဖြဲ ့အစည္း/ကြန္ရက္�...
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January 11, 2018 • Author: ND-Burma
တအာင္းဥပေဒအေထာက္အကူျပဳအဖဲြ႔(TLA)တာ၀န္ခံ မုိင္းမ်ိဳးေအာင္ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိ
မ္းခံရျခင္းအေပၚ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးမွတ္တမ္းကြန္ရက္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ (ND-Burma) ၏ ထု
တ္ျပန္ခ်က္
ထုတ္ ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္ ကုိ ဤေနရာတြင္ ဖတ္ ရႈႏုိင္သည္ ။ ... Read more ►
January 11, 2018 • Author: Delegation of the European Union to Myanmar
Local EU Statement on the Myanmar Military’s Admission of Extrajudicial
Killings of 10 Muslim Villagers in Rakhine State
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The European Union Delegation, the Heads of Mission of EU member states accredited to Myanmar and the Head
of Mission of Norway issue the following statement in Myanmar The Myanmar military admitted for the first time
the extrajudicial killings of 10 Muslim villagers whose b... Read more ►
January 10, 2018 • Author: Kachin National Organization
70th Anniversary of the Kachin State Day Statement
1. Today, 10th January 2018 marks the 70th Anniversary of the creation of Kachin State. May this day bring a
blessing to the citizens of Kachin State and all the ethnic nationalities of the Union of Burma. The declaration of
Independence on January 4, 1948 was the new birth ... Read more ►
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January 8, 2018 • Author: United Nationalities Federal Council -Burma
ညီညြတ္ေသာတိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးမ်ားဖက္ဒရယ္ေကာင္စီ၏ ဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ေ
ကာ္ မတီ (တုိးခ်ဲ႕) အစည္းအေဝး သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
ညီညြတ္ ေသာတုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးမ်ားဖက္ ဒရယ္ ေကာင္စီ (UNFC) ၏ ဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ေကာ္ မတီ (တုိးခ်ဲ႕) အစည္ းအေ�...
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January 8, 2018 • Author: Burmese Women's Union
ျမန္မာ့ အမ်ဳိးသမီးသမဂၢ အဌမအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ညီလာခံ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ (၇)ရက္ ေန႕သည္ ျမန္မာ့ အမ်ဳိးသမီးသမဂၢ၏ (၂၃) ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ႏွစ္ပတ္ လည္ ေန႔ ျဖစ္သကဲ့ သို�... Read more
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January 8, 2018 • Author: Restoration Council of Shan State
သွ် မ္းလူမ်ဳိးအလုိက္ အမ်ဳိးသားအဆင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးေဆြးေႏြးပြႏဲွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾ
ကညာခ်က္
၁။ တစ္ႏုိင္ငံလုံး ပစ္ခတ္ တိုက္ ခုိက္ မႈရပ္စေဲရး သေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ (NCA) ပါ ႏငုိင္ေံရးလမး္ ျပေျမပုံ အဆင့္(၃)အရ... Read more ►
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January 8, 2018 • Author: Restoration Council of Shan State
Restoration Council of Shan State Statement on the National Political
Dialogue of Shan Nationalities
1. In accordance with the 3rd stage of the Road Map of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), the
Framework for Political Dialogue (FPD) and the resolution of the 6th meeting of the Joint Implementation and
Coordination Meeting (JICM), the National Political Dialogue of S... Read more ►
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January 5, 2018 • Author: Kachin Political Parties Coordination Committee
ႏိုင္ငံတကာအဖဲ ြ႔ အစည္းမ်ားမွဦးေဆာင္ျပီး အထက္ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္ညာျမစ္၀ွမ္းေဒသတြ
င္ ေရအားလွ် ပ္စစ္က႑ အ တြက္ မူ၀ါဒေလ့လာဆန္းစစ္မႈအေပၚ ...
၁။ ျပည္ တြင္းစစ္ျပင္းထန္ေနေသာ ကခ်င္ျပည္ နယ္ တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအဖဲ ြ႔ အစည္ းမ်ားမွ အၾကီးစားစြမ္းအင္ ထုတ္ �... Read more ►
January 5, 2018 • Author: The Tanintharyi Weekly
Statement of Tanintharyi Weekly about Lawsuit by Tanintharyi Region
Government
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(1) The lawsuit filed by the Tanintharyi Regional Government on November 23, 2017, at the Dawei Township
Court, accuses the Tanintharyi Weekly of directly and indirectly slandering, undercutting the dignity of, and
causing suffering to the Tanintharyi Region Chief Minister, ... Read more ►
January 2, 2018 • Author: Ta'ang Women's Organization
ဥပေဒ အေထာက္အကူျပဳအဖြဲ႔ တာ၀န္ခံ မိုင္းမ်ဳိးေအာင္ ဖမ္းဆီးခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ခံရျခင္းအေ
ပၚ မိမိတို႔ တအာင္းေက် ာင္းသားႏွင့္ လူငယ္မ်ားအဖ�...
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December 31, 2017 • Author: All Arakan Students' & Youths' Congress
(၂၃၃) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ရခုိင့္အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာက် ဆံုးေန႔အတြက္ AASYC ၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾ
ကညာခ်က္
ယေန႔ ၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ (၃၁)ရက္ ေန႔သည္ ရခုိင္တုိ႔၏အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာ က် ဆံုးခဲ့သည္ မွာ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း (၂၃၃) �... Read
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December 26, 2017 • Author: United Nationalities Federal Council -Burma
Position Statement on Unlawful Arrest and Killing of 3 Members of
Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) Force and One Civilian
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It has been learnt that on December 20, 2017, the Tatmadaw (Burman Armed Forces) troops from a unit under
Loikaw Regional Operation Command (ROC) seized the KNPP’s interim checkpoint at the 7th Mile Post, between
Par Laung and Dawt Dacha villages, arrested 3 members of KNP... Read more ►
December 26, 2017 • Author: United Nationalities Federal Council -Burma
ကရင္နီအမ်ဳိးသားတုိးတက္ေရးပါတီ (KNPP) ၏ တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္ (၃) ဦး ႏွင့္ အရပ္သား
(၁)ဦးတုိ႔ကုိ တရားမဲ့ဖမ္းဆီးသတ္ျဖတ္မႈႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ေၾက
ညာခ်က္
၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ(၂၀)ရက္ ေန႔တြင္ ကရင္နီျပည္ ၊ လြိဳင္ေကာ္ ၿမဳိ႕နယ္ ၊ ပါေလာင္းေက် းရြာႏွင့္ ေဒါတျခား... Read more ►
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December 14, 2017 • Author: Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand
FCCT Statement on the Arrest of Two Reuters Journalists in Myanmar
The professional membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand is deeply concerned by the arrest of
two journalists in Myanmar, who work for the Reuters news agency. The two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe
Oo, were detained late on Tuesday night on the o... Read more ►
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Investigation Needed in Northern Rakhine State into Possibility of More Mass Graves
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15
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Promoting Gender Equality in Myanmar: Policies and Strategies – “က် ားမတန္းတူေရး ျမွင့္တင္ျခင္းဆုိင္
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January 17, 2018 • Author: Progressive Voice
2018 Must Seek to Hold the Myanmar Army Accountable and End its Impunity and Crimes
Against Minorities
2018 begins in the same vein that 2017 finished, with the continued military offensives, the denial of access to independent human rights investigators
and the continuing arrests of journalists. Further, the deteriorating human rights situation in Myanmar is inextricably lin... Read more ►
2017 in History as Watershed Year for Human Rights Situation in Myanmar
As 2017 draws to a close, any last shred of optimism regarding progress in human rights and democracy in Myanmar[1] has been emphatically blown
away by the Myanmar Army’s campaign of violence in northern Rakhine State. It is important to note, however, that while internati... Read more ►
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Special Circumstances Require Special Efforts for Accountability
In light of the continuing crisis in northern Rakhine State, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) held a special session on 5 December, 2017, issuing a
resolution condemning “alleged systematic and gross violations of human rights and abuses committed against persons belongin... Read more ►
On 27 November, 2017, the government, military and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) agreed to delay the third 21st Century Panglong Conference
until the final week of January 2018. This agreement was the latest in a series of procedural delays and substantively-unproductive... Read more ►
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Leave No One Behind: Support and Justice for Rohingya Women Survivors of Sexual Violence
Every year, from 25 November until 10 December, 2017, women’s rights activists, along with the United Nations and various governments,
commemorate “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.” For 2017, the United Nations Secretary-General’s campaign, UNiTE to... Read
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The Perilous Defense of Human Rights
Amid a catastrophic human rights crisis, the space for civil society and human rights defenders is shrinking as protests in Yangon are banned, a land
rights defender is beaten to death, and spurious charges are used to silence those who speak out against the military’s vio... Read more ►
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