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Torture and ill-treatment in Burma: Findings from the Human Rights Network report

HURFOM: The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) released a special report that documents accounts of torture and ill-treatment since 2010. The report analyzes testimony from two primary places: ethnic areas where the Burmese Army is actively engaged in armed conflict, and detention centers where political prisoners are interrogated and confined.  Read more

Absent rule of law and human rights abuses in Three Pagodas Pass border town

HURFOM: Although the government has signed ceasefire agreements with the ethnic armed groups Karen National Union (KNU), Democratic Buddhist Karen Army (DKBA), KNU Peace Council (KPC), and the New Mon State Party (NMSP), the Thailand-Burma border town of Three Pagodas Pass still remains outside the rule of law, rife with corruption, extortion, arbitrary taxation, and other human rights abuse committed by government authorities, the Burmese army, and armed ethnic groups. Read more

Examination and Critique of the 2012 Farmland Bill

Analyzing the Pyi Daung Su Hluttaw Law No.11, 2012

The Farmland Law was enacted and approved by Burma Pyi Daung Su Hluttaw (Burma Union Parliament) on March 30^th, 2012. Read more

Children at highest risk for malaria in Tavoy Township

WCRP: In April 2012, the Mon National Health Care Committee (MNHC) and the Border Health Initiative found that malaria is affecting more children than adults in Tavoy Township, Tenasserim Region. They facilitated a health education program for early prevention and tested people for Malaria in 7 villages in Tavoy Township. The program provided education, checked blood samples for malaria, provided medicine, and explained how to prevent contracting malaria, dengue fever (DF), and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). Read more